On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:51:49 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote in ::

"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
There is an overwhelming safety issue concerning tailwheel propeller
warbirds that absolutely has to be addressed AS A SINGLE ISSUE by the
FAA and the EAA before accidents like the one this week can be
prevented.

I hesitate to suggest technical solutions since not everyone is comfortable
with using fancy technological solutions (and also because new problems may
be added), but why not require such aircraft to install a USB video camera
under the nose of the plane with the cable terminating at a low cost laptop
or tablet PC in the cockpit? The cameras are relatively low cost these days
(as low as $20! [1]) so the major cost is in the laptop or tablet PC.

[1] http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Cameras.html


That is an obvious and appropriate solution; thanks for mentioning it.
Just as is done with motor home rear vision, it could be done on the
front of tail draggers. The question is, will it successfully be
approved by the FAA FSDO inspectors. And, is there a sunlight
readable LCD screen that will provide adequate visual information? If
the camera were blue tooth enabled, there wouldn't even be a necessity
for video cabling.