I’ve been talking via email with “The Corporate Pilot Dad”, learning more about what HUD displays have on them. He pointed me towards this “Liner and Fighter” webpage to understand more what HUDs in airplanes do and how they are used.
Look at Tim Morgans comments at the top: What do all the symbols and markings on aircraft HUD screens mean? - Quora
In the meantime, I played around with being able to draw text and lines in my testing program and had good success. So, PB is capable of drawing lines and symbols similar to what a hud has on it.
Now gathering the data from Simconnect, and being able to modify the line placements of the watermark, FPM, steering cue, yada, yada, yada, in real-time, is a whole other story. I would have to dig through the SimConnect variables to see if everything is there or can be calculated. Having all the symbology of a 737NG would be a “very big project” undertaking.
I know that the sim can pass me data at about 15ms bandwidth (about 66Hz), but I do not know how moving lines around on the HUD would look. I would need to try experimenting with that, using a timer and a random line generator that could emulate how smoothly moving lines, at 15ms would look.
Thoughts? Can it be done, or it has been tried and failed by others using this sim or a different sim?
