On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:28:46 PM UTC-6, son_of_flubber wrote:

I will not be surprised when pilots get a 360 degree view of the airspace around them without the annoyance of an opaque instrument panel in front of them. Whether that is done by wearing special glasses or plugging a wire into the base of their skulls remains to be seen.

Years from now when that happens, I will probably think that it is a bad thing and not "real flying".

You don't have to wait years, F-35 pilots have been doing it (or at least trying to do it) for several years now. Called DAS (for Distributed Aperture System), it feeds video into the pilots helmet so that he can look in any direction and see "through" the aircraft structure, day or night.

So join the Air Force (F-35A), Marines (F-35B) or Navy (F-35C) and experience it now!

Of course, it still has a few bugs, nothing a few billion dollars won't fix....

Kirk
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