平视显示器（Head Up Display），以下简称HUD，是目前普遍运用在航空器上的飞行辅助仪器。平视的意思是指飞行员不需要低头就能够看到他需要的重要信息。抬头显示器最早出现在军用飞机上，降低飞行员需要低头查看仪表的频率，避免注意力中断以及丧失对状态意识（Situation Awareness）的掌握。因为HUD的方便性以及能够提高飞行安全，民航机也纷纷跟进安装。部分汽车业者也以类似的设备作为行销的手段吸引顾客，不过使用上并不广泛。

虽然HUD目前广泛的使用在各类军用飞机上，但是并非任何位于座舱前方的设备都是HUD，有些只是单纯的光学瞄准器而已。

A head-up display or heads-up display—also known as a HUD—is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned "up" and looking forward, instead of angled down looking at lower instruments. A HUD also has the advantage that the pilot's eyes do not need to refocus to view the outside after looking at the optically nearer instruments.