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#3592898 - 06/16/12 05:07 PM Reality catches up with the games.
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In some games there are visual aids to where you are to go. And other things like this. Well, reality has caught up with games. Today, a friend took me up in his small single engine plane, a Skycatcher. Nearly all the gauges and such are on two displays, much like Ipads. These were Garmin products. On one you give it your from spot and destination. It then came up with something like a video game image of the landscrape and rectangles to fly through.
See https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=153&pID=66916

Which leads me to think that having some second monitor that would just have for us gamers a display of the instruments.
Just an idea.
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#3593146 - 06/17/12 08:33 AM Re: Reality catches up with the games. [Re: Uriah]
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Yep, there is a solution.

see on mission4today, you must log in:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Knowledge_Base&op=show&kid=377
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#3593154 - 06/17/12 09:06 AM Re: Reality catches up with the games. [Re: Uriah]
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smile "Tunnel in the Sky" tech has been dreamed of since last century, it just takes longer to become reality and allowed by the FAA/TSA than to be put in a game.

(BTW, bad acronym, right? smile )

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#3593469 - 06/17/12 08:59 PM Re: Reality catches up with the games. [Re: Uriah]
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Originally Posted By: Uriah
In some games there are visual aids to where you are to go. And other things like this. Well, reality has caught up with games. Today, a friend took me up in his small single engine plane, a Skycatcher. Nearly all the gauges and such are on two displays, much like Ipads. These were Garmin products. On one you give it your from spot and destination. It then came up with something like a video game image of the landscrape and rectangles to fly through.
See https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=153&pID=66916


Is that in addition to discrete instruments, or in place of them?
The latter would be pretty scary - one display unit fails
and you are totally blind!

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#3594549 - 06/20/12 01:36 AM Re: Reality catches up with the games. [Re: PV1]
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PV1, The "older" (HA!) G1000 is similar, but with 2 screens. If one screen were to fail, there is a "reversionary mode" where it clusters the flight instruments in with the engine monitoring equipment and displays it on both screens (since the system can't tell which screen is dead). This system would not be certified by the FAA if it did not have that same feature.

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#3594974 - 06/20/12 07:24 PM Re: Reality catches up with the games. [Re: steeldelete]
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Originally Posted By: steeldelete
Yep, there is a solution.

see on mission4today, you must log in:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Knowledge_Base&op=show&kid=377


I know this works in il2...but does it work in COD
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