Thursday, April 30, 2015

Blog post #6: Airbus, Boeing Set sights on Synthetic Vision.

For my last blog post, I decided to talk about a more futuristic possibility.  There is a possible safety upgrade in the next five years for commercial airliners by giving the pilots the opportunity for virtual reality.  It’s known as synthetic vision and it allows a 3-D rendering of runways, obstacles, and a lot of other debris that can bother pilots.  The synthetic vision offers energy awareness cues that give the pilot flight path vectors, the speed and acceleration of the flight, and this can all be very beneficial for pilots.  It’ll be like the pilots are playing a flying video game, where they know how fast they’re going and how fast they’re accelerating with a big point on the screen of where to land.  This synthetic visions is already available for business jet cockpits, but it is now just being introduced to commercial airliners.  It’s amazing what the future holds for aviation, and how safe this system can make flying.  It’s a great article! 

Article: http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/airbus-boeing-set-sights-synthetic-vision  

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