credit NASA
Synthetic vision digitally renders the pilots’ surroundings when they can’t rely on the real one to guide them. Backers of the programs are promising that the system will let pilots see in nasty weather, just like night-vision goggles let troopers roam around in the dark.
credit Northern Lights Avionics, Inc.
A Cessna 206 aircraft with conventional instruments (left) and the same aircraft with a 2D synthetic vision display system (right).
