Mike is right. Gliding is about feeling seeing touching the real world. As little interference by artificial stuff, as possible, is wanted or needed.
If you want to play 'puter games, stay home and do it. Bob On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:40 PM, John Roake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/12/15 2:59 PM, "BORGELT_MIKE" <[email protected]> > wrote: Our reply hereunder: > > Mike > > You’re 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 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 > <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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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