Heads-Up Display announced by GRT Avionics

[deej]

Originally Posted by Greg_Toman

The BT-200 glasses are designed to allow you to wear prescription glasses and the BT-200. At the show many people have done this, and I don't think there has been any glasses that were too wide for the BT200 to fit around.

This is excellent news, thank you!

Now I'm very keen to try these. :-)

If one already has a bluetooth USB module in an HX talking to an Android tablet, can it also talk to the glasses at the same time?

-Dj

[F1R]

Any chance for a glare shield mounted conventional HUD in the next year?

Or are the glasses large enough to mount on the glare shield and use them there now?

[deej]

Originally Posted by F1R

Any chance for a glare shield mounted conventional HUD in the next year?

You could mount an Android tablet on the glareshield easily enough, and use the current GRT android software to display a PFD.

EDIT: Hi rmartingt, I see your comment below. I realize this isn't the same thing. I was simply offering an inexpensive alternative for a glareshield mounted PFD as a possible option. Depending on how it is mounted, the size of the tablet, and your height sitting in the seat, it doesn't have to block any of the outside view while keeping the info closer to your line of sight out the window.

-Dj

[rmartingt]

Originally Posted by deej

You could mount an Android tablet on the glareshield easily enough, and use the current GRT android software to display a PFD.

-Dj

That isn't the same thing. The idea is to directly overlay the symbology on the outside view, focused at infinity so you can see it while also looking at stuff out the window. All putting a tablet up high does is block forward view with a duplicated PFD that isn't overlaid on the outside view.

[LancairIVP-Eclipse]

I'm new to the Van's site, but have enjoyed using the GRT data software from y'all for years. I visited Greg and bought the new mini last OSH. I was a Naval Test Pilot and Flight Surgeon and we worked for years to try and get this helmet mounted display right. The military versions were still pretty delicate and glitchy ten years ago, when I retired. The USAF actually assigned a dedicated crewman(person) to safeguard the optics and electronics. The Naval (USN/USMC) never had that kind of budget. My guess is the HMDs are still a work in progress. They tend to induce SD (Spatial Disorientation), especially in the CLAG or at night. Please fly with a safety pilot until you have some experience and I would recommend a safety course for the early adapters and enthusiasts! This is in the military displays, I'm talking about. I have not flown GRT's version, yet. It may be better if it is not "stabilized" because even the multi-million dollar systems tend to drift in spatial and temporal lags. This can also induce "sim sickness" because when the brain detects a mismatch between visual and inertial(vestibular perception) the brain-stem evacuates any recent food... (evolutionary theory suggests this was a survival tactic for 4 legged terrestrial animals who never saw such a mismatch unless poisoned or drugged.)

[Mike S]

William, welcome aboard the good ship VAF