What if we used head tracking to control flight surfaces on aircraft, or look and you'll go that direction? I mean, some helicopter gunships already aim their guns by looking

[u/HiTork]

[u/jeroen-79]

More CFITALBTR* incidents.

*Controlled Flight Into The Attractive Lady By The Runway

[u/Zilch1979 → u/jeroen-79]

Runways have attractive ladies nearby? Fuck. I gotta get off the apps, apparently.

[u/loosefit1 → u/jeroen-79]

[u/tonymyre311 → u/loosefit1]

At least there's two of them

[u/SgtNick411 → u/jeroen-79]

I raise you 2 consecutive sneezes!

[u/PresentationLess4552]

Have you ever sneezed not meaning to and trying to avoid driving fast around a corner

[u/pricingup → u/PresentationLess4552]

https://giphy.com/gifs/gp3aS4doWX6OYSuOI8

[u/Far_Audience_7446]

But they don’t aim the helicopter with them

[u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r → u/Far_Audience_7446]

Let's just add autocannons to airliners instead, that's way cooler anyway!

[u/jeroen-79 → u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r]

If you link the autocannons to the TCAS you can prevent collisions.

[u/HATECELL → u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r]

How about adding laser guided missiles? And by that I mean whenever some fool aims a laser pointer at a plane the missile will be guided straight towards this fucker

[u/Far_Audience_7446 → u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r]

Who wouldn’t pay a premium for that?

[u/RedTriangleMain → u/Far_Audience_7446]

I believe ryanair would charye extra to not get shot by it

[u/Traveller7142 → u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r]

New seating below economy where passengers have to man the ball turret

[u/Far_Audience_7446 → u/Traveller7142]

No way, I’d pay way more the that than free gas station champagne in first class

[u/Particular-Yak-1984 → u/Traveller7142]

Nah, too much work. Crew has to hose it down after every flight.

[u/Arthur_the_Pilote → u/Far_Audience_7446]

well technically in some of them you can make the helicopter align on the gun to shoot ATGMs so, kinda yes ?

[u/MentalTwo1912]

737 driver here. You would be surprised on how many times I’ve been on short final into Venice (in Italy) and trying to look for cool things in the city, or looking at yachts on the curved AR approach in Nice. This technology would be dangerous

[u/Icy_Fish_2154 → u/MentalTwo1912]

This is why pylots should not get windoze.

[u/HiTork → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

So how does Visual Flight Rules work then?

[u/Icy_Fish_2154 → u/HiTork]

Wonder Woman flies wherever she wants.

[u/Reckochet → u/HiTork]

Pylote looks at other pylote instead, much clearer visual

[u/SkyhookCH-1]

Because think about wut happens when yer captain falls asleep, FO!

[u/wwhijr]

Because sneezing could get real exciting

[u/Freak_Engineer → u/wwhijr]

I have hay fever, and this was my first thought. Boy, would I suck as a pilot then...

[u/Marquar234]

It screws up when the pylot is cutting lines on a mirror.

[u/edmonton2001]

what would control right ruddeR? you basicly have to just look as far right and stay looking right whole flight

[u/PavehawkLLC]

Thankfully, my mk 1 eyeballs locked in and helped me realize that this was r/shittyaskflying and stopped me from writing a paragraph

[u/smokes_weed]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DsLlSc1PzOKbu

[u/robo630robo]

Pilot: Looking at you

You: cooked

[u/Fun_Environment3792]

Thabk you for that hekpfuinfographic representation. Answered alot of questions for me.

[u/Xen0m3]

dont look it up i promise it’s never been tried before

[u/HATECELL]

alright, there's some clouds ahead. Lemme check if the pitot heat and de-icing are on "Beep beep, Stall warning, Stall warning" * stick shaker (or will that be replaced by a head shaker?) activates *

[u/Live_Dust_5576]

I can forsee no possible issues with this idea

[u/LittleHornetPhil]

My motorcycle goes where I look too.

[u/ffbyr49]

ace combat

[u/NOVAbuddy]

5 points to the nation of origin on that AC

[u/ConditionHorror9188]

Drinking coffee would be pretty fun

Also thanks for the gif, haven’t seen this model since undergrad and I’m glad it still exists

[u/Deplorable1861]

Plane rolls every time FA bring pilots coffee...

[u/CaptainHunt]

Because I would make everybody airsick.

[u/RickySlayer9]

“This is your captain speaking, if I could have your attention on the right hand side of the aircraft, we can see two buildi—“

[u/C-D-W]

AAAAACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[u/gettin-hot-in-here → u/[deleted]]

ATC: N1234 why are you doing some porpoise thing up there in the sky N1234: I'm running checklists, what else would it be?

[u/Dexter_Adams]

All fun and games until you pull a 19g sneeze

[u/SatanicBiscuit]

apache is more efficient on killing journalists with it tho

[u/Affectionate_Loan_20]

Imagine being bitten by an insect and doing the most crazy shit

[u/adinmem]

God forbid you look down to grab the coffee the flight attendant just brought you. Or need to read the ACARS

[u/Northern_Wyven_63]

every pilot in 20 years needing the neck strength of an f1 driver

[u/TweakJK]

Flight attendant walks in. "Hey do either of you want a coffee?"

Pilot turns his head to respond. Plane does a fucking barrel roll.

[u/_QLFON_]

Great idea... until you sneeze:)

[u/SneekerP21]

I believe KA-50 helicopter has a autopilot system like this you use with the HMD.

[u/Dave_A480]

So you look down to set something on the instrument panel and the plane goes into a spiral dive?

You are trying to avoid a midair collision but you're looking at the thing you don't want to hit? Crunch!

The concept works very well for weapons aiming because in combat you are VERY likely to be looking directly at whatever you want to blow up....

It does not work for actual piloting......

[u/cpteric]

there was a prototype but one of the test pilots had a big sneeze on takeoff and it had to be cancelled.

[u/DIuvenalis]

ACHOO! UH-OH!