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Should Flight Sim be in Real World Planes
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| Mellow Crow 2006-08-29, 2:35 am |
| In Flight Sim the spot view (outside) frequently is a good way to present
critical information about situation and configuration. When, inside the
cockpit, I'm not rigorously following a checklist or not maintaining
constant situation awareness a quick flick to outside view has: given me a
precise sense of terrain to avoid on approach; proximity to runway; reminded
me to turn landing lights on; or raise the gear.
Especially for terrain avoidance in bad wheather, wouldn't Real World pilots
benefit from having Flight Sim installed in the cockpit, slaved to their
position, with outside view on?
I have head that modern ground proximity warning systems to have some sort
of database of world wide terrain but I've not heard of any plans to go the
next step and present this visually, as in a flight simulator.
What do ya reckon?
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| Jay Beckman 2006-08-29, 2:35 am |
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"Mellow Crow" <mellowcrow@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:12f7hq53uu9agcf@corp.supernews.com...
quote:
> In Flight Sim the spot view (outside) frequently is a good way to present
> critical information about situation and configuration. When, inside the
> cockpit, I'm not rigorously following a checklist or not maintaining
> constant situation awareness a quick flick to outside view has: given me a
> precise sense of terrain to avoid on approach; proximity to runway;
> reminded
> me to turn landing lights on; or raise the gear.
>
> Especially for terrain avoidance in bad wheather, wouldn't Real World
> pilots
> benefit from having Flight Sim installed in the cockpit, slaved to their
> position, with outside view on?
>
> I have head that modern ground proximity warning systems to have some sort
> of database of world wide terrain but I've not heard of any plans to go
> the
> next step and present this visually, as in a flight simulator.
>
> What do ya reckon?
>
>
A Google search using "general aviation synthetic vision" gets this as the
first hit:
http://www.metavr.com/technology/pa...eticvision.html
There are 468,000 additional hits...
YMMV...
Jay B
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