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Get Rid Of Warbirds At Oshkosh
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message news 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. 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. The pilot is going to have to watch the spotter as well and is giving away to the spotter responsibility for the safe movement of the aircraft. I think any pilot capable of flying a warbird should be able to add a glance at a monitor to their scan. |
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