future avionics???

cbrown747 · #1 07-18-2010, 05:33 PM

I am looking to build an rv within the next year and have tried to google many links for what is coming in the future (2-3 yrs). Does anybody know of any links on this subject?

Mel · #2 07-18-2010, 05:51 PM

Try "avionicscrystalball.com".

Good luck!

Ron Lee · #3 07-18-2010, 05:57 PM

Retro panel (six pack) and I will be leading the trend.

DeltaRomeo · #4 07-18-2010, 06:01 PM

...my big request is for a HUD that duplicates data from an existing EFIS/GPS above the dash on a small piece of see through material. With a flight path indicator.

29 page study re: HUDs by the Flight Safety Foundation: http://flightsafety.org/files/hgs_nov09.pdf

Something like...

or this:

And I'm serious about this HUD! All this info is down on the panel already...why can't it be duplicated twelve inches higher where I'm looking for traffic?

Sam Buchanan · #5 07-18-2010, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cbrown747

I am looking to build an rv within the next year and have tried to google many links for what is coming in the future (2-3 yrs). Does anybody know of any links on this subject?

Charles,

Three years ago even those of us who have been in the RV community for years could not have predicted the avionics specifics and/or price points currently coming on the market.

I see no reason why we should expect to be able to see any better into the next three years.

Get started on your project and rest assured your avionics choices will be exciting! You want your avionics to be the last purchase in the work flow of your project.

cfiidon · #6 07-18-2010, 06:11 PM

As in "Firefox". "Think good landing, make good landing".

Seriously though, I doubt there will be any really new things in the next few years other than ADS-B vendors. Maybe some improvements or upgrades to existing equipment.

I'd personally like to see a Garmin competitor...

RickWoodall · #7 07-18-2010, 06:39 PM

"Seriously though, I doubt there will be any really new things in the next few years other than ADS-B vendors."

I can guarantee that wont be true. The coms, the audio panels, the moving map graphics, the synthetic vision, the integration of all systems...It will grow in leaps and bounds. Look at aveo engineerings web site for HUD and other cool stuff. Light, high tech really cools stuff will be coming as fast as it can be dreamed up. What a fun time to be building. Imagine a red dot on the canopy showing you location of traffic.

Dont pull the trigger until your done all the slow stuff.

Shockwave · #8 07-18-2010, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaRomeo

...my big request is for a HUD that duplicates data from an existing EFIS/GPS above the dash on a small piece of see through material. With velocity vector.

Something like...

And I'm serious about this HUD! All this info is down on the panel already...why can't it be duplicated twelve inches higher where I'm looking for traffic?

Yes!! I keep wondering how hard can it be to drive a 2nd screen off of a modern efis. Am I missing something?

dpansier · #9 07-18-2010, 08:08 PM

HUD

This neat device may do the job with the proper input signal and a mount.

http://www.microvision.com/showwx/index.html

chinch · #10 07-19-2010, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Shockwave

Yes!! I keep wondering how hard can it be to drive a 2nd screen off of a modern efis. Am I missing something?

It's not about driving the screen or creating the content on the screen. That's not difficult to do (do well - now, that's a different issue).

The big challenge continues to be collimating the display so that the image is focused at infinity - where your eyes are focused, looking for that traffic.

This is all about optics.

The last thing you want is to be doing is changing your focus out and back repeatedly. Yes, you do that already with a normal panel - outside, up and away, inside down and near - but as I understand it, a non collimated display can mess seriously with your head and eyes - and who needs a headache when flying?

Having said that, there are some very clever people on this board, who I figure all have different pieces of the puzzle, either through their profession or through their passion (or both, if they are lucky).

Now, if only we could find some way of getting these people all together and start comparing notes....

edit: interestingly enough, one of the better basic overviews online is a home sim site:

http://www.mikesflightdeck.com/head_up_displays.htm

Also for reference:

http://tinyurl.com/288n4ky

http://www.rockwellcollins.com/produ...ics/index.html