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Since about 10 years the trend in aviation cockpit design is toward an increasing display area and a smaller number of individual displays at the same time. Modern display technology even allows building displays which are able to cover the area of the entire main instrument panel of a fighter cockpit. The application of large area displays offers the advantage to largely improve the situation of the pilot by augmenting his situation awareness, thus enhancing his operational capability. A display that provides a large display area (panoramic display) could not only be used to show a bigger amount of information but also to indicate this information in a more detailed manner at the same time and it also offers the chance to combine information thus supporting the generation of a mental model of the situation.