But everywhere else loses precision, and at an unpredictable rate. Tasks like spinning in a course, selecting a heading for a teardrop, planning an intercept, or eyeballing an initial heading for a fix-to-fix become variable and counterintuitive.your current heading and reciprocal heading are farther apart because that's the stretched axis
It hasn't exactly become the standard glass cockpit in GA. By comparison, how many circular HSIs or EHSIs have been certified?L3 Smart Deck used the oval
My issue isn't that the visual change is uncomfortable; it's that the change doesn't improve usage of the instrument. Tapes are dramatically different from steam gauges and the change has definitely been uncomfortable for some, but they enable a much more integrated presentation of critical data. I would completely agree with an oval HSI to increase the precision of the current heading and its reciprocal, if those were the only things I cared about on an HSI.it's a very visual change, which can be uncomfortable
I really don't mean to overstep here, but expanding the beta test group demographics might be helpful.We did a lot of beta testing on this release and we didn't get any feedback on the elliptical HSI.
All of that aside, I really appreciate the work that has gone in to the v15 release...and that you guys are willing to try new things. It truly is the only way to improve.