Originally Posted by gums
I continue to feel that a flight path vector display or symbol for the AF447 dudes would have helped a lot.
- I have said this before and it need saying gain. All this talk (1400+ posts now) about 'HUD' in relation to AF447 is a waste of time.
No-one will deny a HUD is a superb asset, of great use both in tactical aircraft and commercial aircraft. HOWEVER, to suggest that retrospectively it would have helped 'save' AF447 is nonsense. This crew appear, for whatever reason, to have been unable to interpret even basic 'so-called steam gauges' ie attitude and altitude. To have seen a HUD fitted in 447 would probably simply have meant even more electronics smacked into the South Atlantic. There does not appear to be a snowball's chance in hell that this crew would have taken in ANY FPV, AoA or any other EXTRA information they had in front of them.
FPV etc would certainly be of great use to a trained operator in extreme conditions, BUT the emphasis must be on PREVENTING these extreme conditions in the first place. To do that required no FPV, HUD, AoA - just an absent basic flying skill.