Registered: 02/15/06
Posts: 3261
Loc: Kansas City, Missouri - USA
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.
_________________________
Race you to the Mucky Duck!
Registered: 05/29/10
Posts: 3525
Loc: The Netherlands
"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.
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!
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.