On 14/12/15 2:59 PM, "BORGELT_MIKE" <[email protected]> wrote: Our reply hereunder:
Mike You¹re making a fool of yourself. It is about to be 2016 not 1916. John > 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 cockpit¹ 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 > <http://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 > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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