We're working towards our concept of cockpits without a single physical dial or screen.
Instead, pilots will wear a next generation augmented and virtual reality helmet that will project interactive cockpit displays and controls directly in front of their eyes.
Other pilot support concepts such as virtual assistants are also being developed and tested.
This work is continuing and flight trials are now being planned to test some of these innovations in a real environment.
I take it will also have a conventional cockpit as a back up for the all singing all dancing “virtual” cockpit. The other thought was, if your using a virtual headset, are you going the whole hog projecting the real world onto it, ie so you can see through the aircraft etc, or will it just be an extension of the current Typhoon system.
The other question is how will you interface with it, HOTAS has to have limits as to what you can actually control via switches or do you think they will use some sort of virtual glove?
I realise that you cannot fly the aircraft waving your hands around in front of you, but a conventional HOTAS for fighting the aircraft with a button to bring up cockpit mode and a single glove to interface with the VR cockpit should be doable.
An interesting idea, although ejection might cause problems