current time indicator?
Hello, folks,
I am a graduate student who conducts researches about flight deck display design. I am exploring a new display design for required time of arrival (RTA) operation at NextGen stage. I believe not many pilots have executed RTA operations so far, but it will be the fundamental tasks for airliner pilots in the near future.
While pilots fly with temporal operations, MCDU shows the RTA page with UTC indication. However, as far as I know, flight deck displays for the current operational environment do not indicate the current time on any display unit. So my questions are
- Does this mean pilots do not need to check the current time during flying; only need to check ETA for the next waypoint as indicated on ND instead?
- How do you say that ND presents the UTC all the time? Will it be helpful for pilots to monitor the temporal situations while executing RTA operations in the NextGen stage?