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"Corky Scott" wrote in message
Don't know if you've been reading the trade magazines Shiver, but a
kind of forward looking viewing process has been developed with Alaska
as the testing area.

Sounds like you are describing TAWS (terrain awareness system). All turbine
aircraft with 6 or more seats are required to have it next year. I get to
play with one in the MD-80. It's cool. It shows elevations that are below
you in green and elevations above you in red. It has good detail even after
the FAA made the manufacturers dumb down the display image so that pilots
wouldn't navigate mountain passes in zero/zero. The cost is between $12k and
$40k depending on the complexity of the unit and installation. There are
some units on the market that do the same thing for a lot less money but
they aren't TSO'd.

D.