Google Books has free on-line Flying magazines back to the beginning. So, looking in 2003 you find the introduction of the Avidyne Entegra - the first more-or-less totally integrated EFIS style avionics. The G1000 follows. The revolutionary Garmin 430 had come out in 1998.
So where do you think we will be in 5 years? 10 years?
Five years? How about........
I would guess pretty much what we have (Think Dynon Skyview and equivalents) but:
More integrated and totally touch-screen.
Voice commands for all functions including natural query: "Where's the nearest airport with an on-field restaurant and auto gas?"
Highway in the sky (HITS)
Routine HITS display for every landing at every airport, generated on-board. As you approach an uncontrolled airport, the system knows the wind direction, and produces a HITS for a standard traffic pattern entry (it knows the traffic pattern direction for each runway) and approach. It asks (recommends) or you tell it the runway you intend to use. Computed vertical guidance to any runway. Gives warnings if you are low or slow, so you can pretend to be a ****** Airlines 777 pilot and ignore them...)
Some HUD integration using Google Glass or equivalent.
The system will automatically buffer all radio communications and answer your question "Was that last transmission for me?" by replaying it.
Or the screen might also have a continuously running text-to-speech conversion window: "ATC says N412BR Climb and maintain 6000, switch to 127.5."
Intelligent diagnostics. Your plane emails you that "Over the last 3 flights, your oil temperature has been trending 5 degrees higher, even taking into account the ambient conditions."
10 years?
So where do you think we will be in 5 years? 10 years?
Five years? How about........
I would guess pretty much what we have (Think Dynon Skyview and equivalents) but:
More integrated and totally touch-screen.
Voice commands for all functions including natural query: "Where's the nearest airport with an on-field restaurant and auto gas?"
Highway in the sky (HITS)
Routine HITS display for every landing at every airport, generated on-board. As you approach an uncontrolled airport, the system knows the wind direction, and produces a HITS for a standard traffic pattern entry (it knows the traffic pattern direction for each runway) and approach. It asks (recommends) or you tell it the runway you intend to use. Computed vertical guidance to any runway. Gives warnings if you are low or slow, so you can pretend to be a ****** Airlines 777 pilot and ignore them...)
Some HUD integration using Google Glass or equivalent.
The system will automatically buffer all radio communications and answer your question "Was that last transmission for me?" by replaying it.
Or the screen might also have a continuously running text-to-speech conversion window: "ATC says N412BR Climb and maintain 6000, switch to 127.5."
Intelligent diagnostics. Your plane emails you that "Over the last 3 flights, your oil temperature has been trending 5 degrees higher, even taking into account the ambient conditions."
10 years?