I noticed that on the A320 neo version with LEAP engines in the cockpit there are several buttons on the captain’s panel. In reality, they have the role for activating HUD. Why there is no such improvement. For example, the a320-251n version of China Southern Airlines uses hud on a320neo.
If you want crazy improvements for the default a320 go get flybywire’s at flybywiresim dot com
1 Like
Because this refit is not a standard refit. airlines are free to choose whether they want to have the HUD installed or not. For the China Southern Airlines case, I believe it’s because they’re bound by mandatory government law that requires the A320 to be refitted with the HUD. But for other countries, it depends on the airlines. These aren’t cheap installations.
Another challenge about HUD is the collimation effect. The 787’s HUD while there, it’s not really optimised for a good collimation, the horizon is always off from the actual horizon and they don’t “stick” when you move the camera around as it should.
For now, we can only hope that the FlyByWire team is implementing the HUD in the future. I already request an enhancement. But since this requires it’s own unique 3D model as well as another set of functionality that uses more CPU processing power to simulate, that will take some time.
1 Like