I think what you really need is a fly-by-wire system which allows you to fly
using only your two thumbs and a parachute which feels like a sofa. ;-0


"son_of_flubber" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:39:21 AM UTC-4, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Saturday, April 5, 2014 9:15:25 AM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:

I would be eager to try a full immersion synthetic vision VR
application in a sailplane. Something based on Occulus Rift or similar
that would make the fuselage completely disappear and let me see above,
below and behind.



Honestly? Do you really want to see and be seen like this?



:-)



http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/pottytruck.htm


With synthetic vision, it would surely be possible to render other
people's glider's invisible or partly transparent, and you could render
the pilot TSA style.

I'd prefer to see other people's gliders opaque and true to size, unless
they were on a converging heading, in that case bright, flashing and
bigger would be better.

VR goggles will one day give a glider pilot the vision of a hawk.