Cockpit video displays. Was: Get Rid Of Warbirds At Oshkosh

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
Mark Hickey wrote:

Ernest Christley wrote:

A flag on the part of the protagonist moves the responsibility from
the antagonist seeing to the protagonist being seen (any time you
move your vehicle, you're the antagonist, the mover, the doer, the
responsible party). If the Avenger's co-pilot couldn't ride or walk
a wing to the run-up area, stick a bug-eye mirror on a stick or out
on a wing (temporarily). The solutions are simple, abundant, and in
use all around us every day.

With the price and availability of tiny little video cameras and LCD
displays, I can't imagine why anyone who could afford to fly a
warbird couldn't afford to put a forward-looking video system in
place (even if it's only a temporary installtion used for crowded
events). It would cost what - $100? - to prevent blind taxiing.

Mark Hickey

This "solution" requires too much "head buried in the cockpit" to be
practical.

Dudley Henriques made the same objection when I suggested the same idea on
rec.aviation.piloting. The most significant problem with the objection is
that no one is proposing that the pilot stare at the screen - simply add an
occasional glance at the screen to the pilot's normal visual scan. Such a
device should be no more objectional than the rearview mirrors in an
automobile - devices that add more to safe driving than they detract.

If the pilot is looking at the screen, he is not paying
attention to other things of equal or greater importance happening
around him.

I like the idea of spotters better.

This solution requires too much "staring at the spotter" to be practical.
;-)