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Old February 27th 12, 07:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Gardner
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Default I Want a HUD

On Feb 27, 7:16*pm, Derek Mackie wrote:
From aggie:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/...Google-glasses...

Let's not discuss the AH side of this, please. *But I want my PDA data
working on something like this. *Any of you geeks out there up to it?
Get's rid of the arguments about looking inside the cockpit!


If only that were sufficient

A long way down
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/A...Pacherie4.html
there's this snippet:
A similar rather shocking finding was reported by Haines,
at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. He had
commercial airline pilots land a 727 in a flight simulator,
using a heads-up display of certain instruments on the
windscreen. On certain landing approaches, Haines
suddenly superimposed a stationary small aircraft right
in the middle of the runway. He expected pilots to immediately
abort their landing approach. However 2 out of 8 pilots
simply blithely landed through the obstructing airplane.
When shown a video of what they had done, the pilots
were shocked and incredulous and noted that they
should perhaps resign from commercial flying.

but before you fell too superior, you might care to look
at these images:

http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/A...kayakflick.gif
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ASSChtml/couple.gif
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/A...analbridge.gif
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/A...dottedline.gif
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/sol_Mil_cinepack.avi