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KRviator
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G'day folks,
I'm getting close to flying my -9A and got to thinking about stupid ways pilots get themselves killed. One that crossed my mind was that turkey in the scud-running Bonanza whose passenger filmed the aircraft clipping trees.
That inturn led me to thinking about the possibility of adding a terrain warning of some description to the Skyview system. We've got the colour-coded terrain and synthetic vision but that only works if you're actively monitoring things. And if you're in IMC then you should be keeping an eye on things, but anyway, to my mind, the system knows where you are and it knows the elevation of the terrain around you.
Add in a predictive algorithm that compares your current flightpath to the terrain database and it would be nice to have some kind of Caution terrain, caution terrain alert in the headset if the system thinks I'm within 30 seconds, a minute, <whatever> of spearing into the side of a mountain.
A fancy addition might be to disable it within 1 mile of a runway in the database, or 500 feet and 5 miles of aerodrome elevation but that is for better minds than me to decide.
Whaddya think?
I'm getting close to flying my -9A and got to thinking about stupid ways pilots get themselves killed. One that crossed my mind was that turkey in the scud-running Bonanza whose passenger filmed the aircraft clipping trees.
That inturn led me to thinking about the possibility of adding a terrain warning of some description to the Skyview system. We've got the colour-coded terrain and synthetic vision but that only works if you're actively monitoring things. And if you're in IMC then you should be keeping an eye on things, but anyway, to my mind, the system knows where you are and it knows the elevation of the terrain around you.
Add in a predictive algorithm that compares your current flightpath to the terrain database and it would be nice to have some kind of Caution terrain, caution terrain alert in the headset if the system thinks I'm within 30 seconds, a minute, <whatever> of spearing into the side of a mountain.
A fancy addition might be to disable it within 1 mile of a runway in the database, or 500 feet and 5 miles of aerodrome elevation but that is for better minds than me to decide.
Whaddya think?