Or better still, deactivate and remove it.
Why would you want to do that? HUDs are a great bit of kit, easy to use and get your eyes out of the flight deck. I can see no disadvantage to having all the information you need presented in front of your face and can certainly see no good reason for going back to dials and needles because that's the way in was done 'back then'.
As for the BA system, why does it matter how they chose to operate? If you fly for BA you do it their way, if you don't, you do it your airline's way. BA have no need to 'justify' anything; if they're happy and the CAA is happy then let them continue with something that has worked well for them for a fair few years. I can't see why the 787 and its HUDs will affect the price of fish. The same 'shared' approach can continue as is, you just look out the window for all information you need rather than down at the EFIS.
The only 'problem' with the BA system, which took a while to get used to, was having to hand over on a CAVOK day when you just wanted to 'slip the ship' onto the runway in immacculate style
Is that what you used to call it
As for the visuals, it was just you they were scared of...did you never read the writing on the walls of trap 2 in JBH
