SkyView HDX Display Operation
3-8 SkyView HDX Pilot’s User Guide – Revision B
• DISPLAY – Opens a menu page allowing control of the main screen contents and
additional display layout options.
• NO MSG / MESSAGE / CAUTION / WARNING – System Messages. Provides access to a
pop-up page displaying system messages, alerts and warnings. This menu item will be
labeled as “NO MSG” when there are no messages or warnings.
SkyView HDX Touch Features
SkyView HDX was designed with an intuitive and comprehensive touch interface while still
maintaining a full complement of tactile controls. This design assures the pilot has effective use
of all necessary controls in a demanding cockpit environment, especially in turbulence. Even
the physical design of the HDX bezel and button/knob control shelf has been optimized to
assure comfortable use in a bumpy cockpit.
In almost every instance of touchable items or controls, there are tactile controls to accomplish
the same action. Two exceptions to this design objective exist on the Map page, where touch
gestures are the only method for panning the map display and for maximizing/minimizing the
area of the screen occupied by the map. Especially in the case of map panning, the touch
gesture has proven to be more effective in turbulence than nearly any tactile control.
Touch gestures are available throughout the HDX system. They serve as primary methods of
selecting and controlling certain features and actions, as well as providing shortcuts to features
otherwise accessed through various menus.
On the PFD and Map screen pages, touch gestures easily discovered by the pilot simply
touching the screen. On the Map in particular, you will discover many touch gestures familiar
from use of other touch-screen devices such as tablets and smart phones. Touchable regions
and the actions they control are described in greater detail in the respective sections of this
manual covering the PFD and Map.
SkyView HDX also presents many menus, informational pages and feature control pages that
are easily navigated using touch gestures. Many visual clues will alert the pilot to the presence
of touchable gestures. These include graphical icons, selectable tabs, and editable fields, each
with a 3-dimensional shaded box appearance similar to command buttons and boxes on other
computing devices. Touch gestures and touchable items on any given screen page are
described in detail in the respective sections of this manual covering each feature or menu
page.
When “Show Touches” is enabled (in SETUP): a circle, illustrated in
Figure 5 at right, appears at the point of touch contact on the screen
and remains under your finger until contact is removed. This allows
you to see exactly where your finger is making contact with the
objects on the screen. Reference the SkyView Classic / SE / HDX
System Installation Guide for details on enabling or disabling “Show
Touches”.
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