On Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:02:52 PM UTC-8, WB wrote:
In article ,

son_of_flubber wrote:



On Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:59:17 PM UTC-5, soartech wrote:

"Hilda, find me a thermal please".



You laugh. Some day we will use Machine Vision to spot thermaling birds from

five miles away.



I'd be happy for a machine vision to spot other aircraft! It would be

nice to have an anti-collision device that does not require the other

aircraft to do anything more than reflect photons.

Actually there are such optical based collision avoidance systems which scan the horizon and can detect what the eyes can't , but from some reason they did not become mainstream.

Ramy