At 08:53 AM 12/14/2015, you wrote:
GLIDING INTERNATIONAL
ISSUE JANUARY 2015
You can now buy a heads-up-display for your
sailplane for as low as $259. Gliding
International challenges gilder instrument
manufacturers to make their products
compatible. This heads in the cockpit
eliminator should be compulsory for all
sailplanes writes Joseph Carr, the new writer to
join our competent team at Gliding International.
We already have a "head in the cockpit"
eliminator for gliders. It is called audio, which
in combination with attitude by looking outside, works fine.
If you aren't already looking outside you are
missing the information that will help your cross
country soaring - the clouds, the ground, other gliders, aircraft etc.
Borgelt Instruments is also working on a new
pilot interface which isn't a HUD or Head mounted
display and which will be much more unobtrusive.
I have a friend who flys the ARH Tiger helicopter
with a helmet mounted display. Great thing for
the purpose but he told me he's aware of some US
Navy research where pilots picked up uncued
targets about 88% of the time without a HUD and
8% when looking through a HUD. Human vision isn't
so much about "seeing" as it is about "perceiving".
When I say "uncued" I mean that there isn't a
little square box in the HUD framing where to
look for the target put their by the radar and or
infrared sensors of that aircraft or others that are datalinked to it..
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of
quality soaring instrumentation since 1978
www.borgeltinstruments.com
tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784
mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784
P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia
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