ABSTRACT
The requirement for a peripheral vision display in aircraft stems from the increase in the amount of information presented to the pilot. The idea that peripheral vision could be used in aircraft as an instrument landing aid was probably conceived in the late 1950s by Majendie and Lowe, who suggested the use of a peripheral vision rate-field display. The concept of the Malcolm Horizon was invented in the mid-1960s with the research of Richard Malcolm at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in a study of disorientation in the aircraft cockpit. The basic operation of the Malcolm Horizon peripheral vision display system, which is produced and marketed by Garrett Canada, a division of Allied Signal, is to display a bar of light on the instrument panel of an aircraft, via input from the aircraft’s gyroscope, such that it remains parallel to the real horizon at all times.
