Originally Posted by
Agile
As an habitual HX50 sceptic, I admit, there are some detail that make sense for pilot awareness. large screen for map of the ground - power line indication...
There's some things I really like about it. But some of it is absolutely honking. You can tell a car designer had input - classic example is the 3d view showing you powerlines being obscured almost completely by the instrument cluster. In a car, nav is a "secondary function" so it looks cool to have a moving map behind your instrument cluster but all you really need is turn by turn. For obstruction alerting, unless they do something clever with that it's pretty naff.
A lot of good as well, don't get me wrong. Big proponent of doing things digitally. Be interesting to see if the wide format displays have a split down the middle and left/right segment redundancy, or whether they've cut costs by not doing that.