SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster

Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by djsumdog on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:22AM (#14741980)

I was going to ask about the ILS, which I assumed pilots always used for lining up their approach. I watched a friend of mine who was a pilot, punching in ILS codes on a training simulator and I remembered it myself years ago from Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. (now that I think about it, I think he even mentioned that he didn't often use ILS).

It seems like a pretty critical system for lining up an approach on the right runway. FS4 even had a training mode where it would display the ILS bars on the screen without needing to look at the instruments. You'd think some commercial airliners would at least put this in a heads up display, where it would be totally obvious you're lined up with the taxi way since the bar would be glued to one side or the other. Don't Navy pilots have a similar HUD for just their vertical approach angle?

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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by cyberferret on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:33AM (#14742022)

Yes. I flew actual planes, and loved playing with MS Flight Sim too, and the number of times I WISHED we could have the same sort of heads up information on the real thing was quite funny.

(Also, would have loved SLEW MODE on the real thing, but that is a conversation for another time and dimension) :D

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