Heads-Up Display announced by GRT Avionics

[Greg_Toman]

I looked at the Gentex flight visor. My guess is that the Epson bt-200 glasses would fit within them, but I am not certain. Someone should bring a helmet and visor to our booth to try this out.

As for just cruising around, the software de-clutters automatically. For example, it does not show the selected approach speed or speed error bar until you are within 25% of the selected speed. No deviation scales are shown either.

Obstacles are not shown on HUD yet, but that is coming very soon, and that will be handy when cruising around. I find that my attention returns to airspeed whenever I pitch up and climb, no matter how shallow, when at low altitude. This means I would expect the HUD will be handy in this type of flying also. I know I like the HUD when flying along the coast of Lake Michigan at 100' above the lake. Seagulls are good at avoiding me if I say below 100 mph, so being able to see the birds and the airspeed is nice.

When enroute, the map/HSI in the lower left corner is handy for verifying/navigating on course.

So the long answer to the short question is, yes, I think you will like them for cruising around, and eventually you will have to land!

Thanks for the questions.

Greg Toman

[Chkaharyer99]

Originally Posted by Greg_Toman

Thanks for the posts and questions.

Engine monitoring has been added to the Mini now as part of a software upgrade package.

Greg Toman
GRT Avionics/Grand Rapids Technologies

Engine monitoring on the Mini. That's awesome! I will be by your booth to take a look.

[erikpmort]

Very excited. I do have to say the price is very reasonable on the glasses and I never would have imagined it would be available with my mini x. Very cool, happy grt customer

[rjtjrt]

Greg
Is the image on the glasses projected at infinity or do you have to focus up closer to read the image?
John

[jclark]

Originally Posted by Chkaharyer99

Engine monitoring on the Mini. That's awesome! I will be by your booth to take a look.

I flew to Oshkosh on Friday with this software and it worked great!

There are a few other "features" but I will not spill the beans for GRT. :-)

Regarding the glasses, I must say that Greg just could NOT stand to be challenged!!! :-)

James

[rmartingt]

Originally Posted by BobTurner

It most likely does not. Notice there is no 'synthetic vision' stuff displayed, just the conventional instruments. Any runways have to been seen visually. Now, if you wear their infrared glasses on top of the HUD glasses, ...

Even without synthetic vision, I'd expect that my HUD symbology (pitch ladder, velocity vector, etc) would be fixed relative to the aircraft. It seems like it might be real disorienting with large head movements and/or if you aren't holding your head perfectly straight in IMC. I do realize that achieving that would take a lot more computing power and most likely some kind of head-tracking system.

[Mike S]

Originally Posted by Greg_Toman

Having already developed the blue-tooth link to our app, and the experience with developing software on Android set us up perfectly for developing the wearable HUD. All GRT EFIS systems that have an "X" in their name (Sport SX, HX, HXr, Mini-X) can support the glasses, as can the mini-AP.

SO............if I am reading this correctly, any EFIS with an X is blue tooth capable????

Please elaborate on this feature---------is it just the software that is in the X models, or is the actual electronics there already??? Will I need to buy an extra bit of hardware???

Is this blue-tooth capability limited only to the glasses, or will it play with other stuff??

Is it two way communication-----------can I do my flight planning at home on the Ipad, and then link via blue-tooth to the HX, and download the flight plan???

Thanks in advance.

[olyolson]

Greg,

Looked through the info on the website and not sure what the HUD glasses will do without any GRT Avionics. I have no GRT avionics in my -4, is this a stand alone system or do I need a GRT EFIS with Synthetic Vision?

I mostly fly VFR but when conditions dictate I can fly IFR and use an IPAD Mini with Foreflight for all the EFB chart requirements and the synthetic vision option.

Sure would be a cool aircraft addition if it is an out of the box stand alone system. This really would revolutionize GA flying, particularly experimentals.

Very interesting,
Oly

[David Paule]

Originally Posted by David Paule

....Well, what I'd like would be a Mini-EMS....

And

Originally Posted by Greg_Toman

....Engine monitoring has been added to the Mini now as part of a software upgrade package....

Now that's fast service. Fantastic!

Thanks! I'll look forward to seeing screenshots of it.

Dave

[BobTurner]

Are those glasses large enough to accomodate bi-focal lenses?