Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
Adoption of Forward Looking IR (Enhanced Flight Visibility Systems, EFVS in FAA speak) and Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) would go a long way to eliminating night visual problems. The EFVS view, especially in a HUD, would have shown the line up planes as four large signatures and the lighting clearer, assuming it hadn't been converted to LED. The SVS would have shown the runway off line-up to the left in a daylight view and the taxiway in front of them. SVS is good enough to show you taxiing across a runway and the view on the PFD or MFD is identical to the outside view.
Unfortunately, HUDs and Synthetic Vision bring their own attentional tunneling effects which have been repeatedly demonstrated in human factors experiments in high fidelity simulations. You cannot 'cure' a feature of the human brain by adding more devices; except perhaps by automating out the crew entirely.