What They Say
Eizo released a case study about an Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulator at Schiphol East in the Netherlands that uses several of the Eizo Raptor RP4325 UltraHD displays for the controllers. (EIZO UHD Monitor is First Primary Control Monitor for ATC and Eizo Moving to Bigger ATC Systems) The wrap-around image shown to the trainees is created using 18 projectors behind the screen.
What We Think
We liked the look of the rear projection screen. My last overseas trip was a year ago to the ATC show in Madrid. It was cancelled, but as I had a weekend planned with my wife, we went anyway. At ATC shows in recent years, I have been intrigued by the ‘virtual’ ATC systems that use fibre-based networking and this kind of display to create ATC ‘towers’ away from airports. This can mean ATC being possible at distant, remote and only occasionally used airfields and also away from airports (for security systems). London’s Heathrow airport is trying to develop a third runway, that would not be visible from the current control tower. To avoid the cost of building a completely new tower between the current two runways and the third one, a virtual control tower is being tested. The Highest Resolution AR Display in the World? The virtual towers I have seen have tended to use arrays of LCDs and might use curved LEDs in the future, but rear-projection is probably a good solution with the long lifetime light sources now available. (BR)
The rear projection system provides a high quality image – click for higher resolution
