Crew Vehicle Interface

[megan]

Reading the local paper to find it had an article on the EA-18G Growler, which included a graphic supplied by the RAAF, and it has an arrow pointing to the "Crew Vehicle Interface".

I don't wish to jump the gun by presuming one well used word might adequately suffice, since it may be a blackbox addition performing some unknown function for all I know.

Anyone? :E

[Lima Juliet]

I seem to remember on the Tornado OCU ground school being briefed that the throttles were known as "Pilots' Demand Levers" as there were no physical attachmmts between the levers and the engines, only electronics. Anyway, known after forever more as 'throttles'!!!

[SpazSinbad]

Preliminary Growler NATOPS (flight) manual: (slow download) page 62 of 862 pages quote:
https://info.publicintelligence.net/E18-G-000.pdf (21.5Mb)
"...The Mission of the EA−18G is the Suppression of hostile Search, Acquisition, Tracking, and Guidance Radar Systems, and RF Communications that might be employed against ownship and other friendly (specifically the protected entity) aircraft. This Mission encompasses protection of friendly aircraft as they enter and depart a battlefield region, as well as during the friendly aircrafts’ Mission (Strike Fighter) in that battlefield region. The Mission is accomplished through means of Electronic Attack, and/or Weapons delivery, to the Threat. This new Mission is for the protection of multiple friendly aircraft in a multiple hostile threat environment. The Electronic Attack portion of this Mission is accomplished via the Crew Vehicle Interface (CVI) with the AEA Subsystem functionality controlled through the mission computers (MCs). This interface includes both Display of Threat Situational Awareness (SA) provided by AEA Subsystem Threat detection Trackfile information processed in the AMCs, and a Command and Control Interface of the AEA Subsystem through the AMCs via options on the Display Formats, and Cockpit Hand Controls that provide Hands On Throttle And Stick (HOTAS) switches. The EA−18G employs EW tactics as offensive measures. Offensive jamming is the primary function of the EA−18G...."

[Pontius Navigator]

Sounds like a VDU and control stick.

Why can't they use simple language like what we used to use like system control though CU 595 and CU 585 with display inputs on the I 301 via CU 301? :)

[Wensleydale]

Its the American language side of NATO insisting that all things are called by Three words rather than one. For example, the AWACS radar has an "Elevation Command Angle" which we call "Tilt". The pilots maintain a "Constant Sightline Picture" rather than "Aspect" and so on. There is an occasional flaw in the system where the mission crew watch the "Situation Display", but this has ben corrected in the new Block 40-45 version of the aircraft which now has a "Primary AWACS Display" or PAD.

[megan]

Thanks Spaz, here was me thinking it might be the place where a geeza sits watching dials, pushing/pulling levers, turning knobs, and pressing buttons and switches aka cockpit. Learn something new every day.

[SpazSinbad]

'megan' I do not know what you see where you see it for the CVI. Here is the front cockpit pilot view from NATOPS. Is the CVI here or in the rear cockpit?

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l261/SpazSinbad/NewNewAllBum/GrowlerNATOPSfrontCockpit.gif~original (http://s98.photobucket.com/user/SpazSinbad/media/NewNewAllBum/GrowlerNATOPSfrontCockpit.gif.html)

[MPN11]

Please excuse my levity ... my immediate reaction was that the Crew Vehicle Interface would be a boarding ladder/set of steps.

[57mm]

You should worry. The Typhoon stick is, in groundschool parlance, called the Stick Sensor Interface Control Assembly (SSICA). Maybe this explains why the Typhoon book of acronyms is the size of Yellow Pages.....

[Buster Hyman]

This clears it up....

http://www.airforce.gov.au/imgs/GrowlerCapacity-small.jpg

[SpazSinbad]

Thanks for that - bigga version: http://www.airforce.gov.au/imgs/GrowlerCapacity.jpg

[megan]

The paper had the same graphic shown by Buster, but did not include the components listed below the blue "Crew Vehicle Interface" wording, hence my belief the it was synonymous with "cockpit".

[SpazSinbad]

'megan' OK thanks.