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Use of Highways in the Sky and a virtual pad for landing Head Up Display symbology to enable improved helicopter pilots situation awareness and workload in degraded visual conditions

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Pages 255-267 | Received 05 Sep 2017, Accepted 01 Dec 2017, Published online: 15 Dec 2017

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