Google Glass in the cockpit?

....And just think - with the optimum soaring path now displayed to the
pilot, you can guarantee yourself a World Championship, simply by buying the
best sailplane. Who needs talent any more when you have the money?

I think I'll apply for a government grant!


"son_of_flubber" wrote in message
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Checklists would also be interesting. Imagine: Glass: Checklist landing

* Wind? Check

* Approach Speed? Check

* Clear Runway? Check


I would use a smart phone app today that allowed me to customize a set of
checklists and interact with them through voice and synthesized speech.
This would be a win because it could eliminate visually distracting
checklists. I know that a lot of pilots follow checklists "from memory" but
many feel that a checklist should be "written down" to compensate for memory
errors. An app like this would increase my use of checklists when my hands
and eyes were busy.

I'd like to see an AI co-pilot that would have awareness of flight
parameters, be able to do simple rule based reasoning and pattern
recognition, and give verbal suggestions to the pilot. Kinda like having a
CFI in the backseat. For example an AI co-pilot might be able to recognize
wind shear, detect that the glider was in the pattern, and give the pilot a
heads up "Possible Wind Shear".

It would be interesting to have a AI watch my flying, detect that I was
having a bad day and flying poorly and tell me to land ASAP.

I think I would keep my Google Glass display to a minimum and display only
airspeed, altitude, vario and perhaps pattern arrival altitude. AI co-pilot
would have some override privilege, so that if I were approaching stall
speed it would display only airspeed, large and in red. I'd like the App to
let the user customize the AI rules so that the AI would behave to the taste
and experience of the pilot. I'd rather see these parameters projected on
the canopy, the Google Glass blocks part of my vision of one eye and that is
a drawback.