The phrase "a cockpit design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the design or layout of a cockpit in an aircraft or similar vehicle.
Example: "The engineers presented a new cockpit design that enhances pilot visibility and accessibility."
Alternatives: "an aircraft cockpit layout" or "a cockpit configuration".
The Eagle-Westlake, a car with an English-powered V-12, a cockpit designed for six-foot-two-inch Gurney, and a pedigree rare in all of racing history (having survived two F1 campaigns despite a very tight budget and tracks like the deadly Nurburgring), has to be one of the most collectible racers ever built.
But while driving such an astonishingly fast car might once have required some sacrifice – some strapping in, warming up, systems checking and counting down (plus some discomfort from a cockpit designed for g-force resistance) – the RS 7's pilot relaxes in the same Barcalounger-like comfort as Creech's remote-control jockeys.
It's easy to be smug in 2011 about the oversights in the '70s when human factors in cockpit design was a relatively new field of study.
As part of the cockpit development, we've been offered an independent analysis of the cockpit design, to see if it can be optimised.
A golden vein A brief history of Wi-Fi The road tolls for thee Going with the flow Unix's founding fathers ReprintsFiltering information in this way makes sense, says David Lewis, a psychologist who advises aircraft-makers on cockpit design, since trying to process too much information is a source of stress and can lead to mistakes.
We've been working closely with the FIA Institute to refine the cockpit design and there is a clear safety advantage in using a solid carbon seat.
The development of touch-screen technology has enabled a similar revolutionary new approach to cockpit design.
The 747-400 introduced a new glass cockpit designed for a flight crew of two instead of three, with a reduction in the number of dials, gauges and knobs from 971 to 365 through the use of electronics.
Jean-Paul Troadec, the B.E.A. director, said a working group of behavioral psychologists and cockpit design experts had been asked to study the effect the alarms might have had on the crew's responses.
BORDEAUX, France — As Denis Bonnet slipped into the right-hand seat of a commercial jet demonstrator in the airliner cockpit design center here at Thales, the French electronics group, his hand reached forward to tap an angled glass screen resembling an oversize iPad.
