Hello, Charles - - responding here with a bit of reluctance - -

-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to JASEN BETTS <=-

 CA>> What I see on television they are creating headgear that
 CA>> really does reduce the landscape to nothing more than a
 CA>> video game for the pilots. I guess they think reaction
 CA>> times are faster with a view he/she is familiar with
 CA>> (video games)?

 JB> i think it's more a matter of filtering out the
 JB> distractions, so to reduce the information overload.

I'm no expert on modern weapons systems, but I'd have thought those
virtual displays were intended more to increase the effectiveness of the
aviator's interaction and use of the weapons systems at his/her
disposal.

 CA> They say that, yes, but I can't imagine what 'distractions'
 CA> they are referring to other than the sight of a city being
 CA> blown to bits?

Charles, you've been putting up some posts over the past week or two
which I'd have thought beneath your intellectual level. You been
forgetting to take your meds, or something??

Militarily, I think that the actual "blowers of cities to bits" have
pretty much been spared the more 'distracting' views of their actions
for quite awhile, back to field artillery in WWI, same in WWII, and
bomber aircraft in WWII.  Even back in WWII, it was a bit of a "game"
view from elevation say 20K feet.  You drop your bombs, you wait awhile,
and then you film when the bombs finally start striking "targets" at
ground level.  If they land on or near their intended targets, you won!!

The "distracting" (aka disturbing?) views I think are all down much
closer to  ground level.  They carefully edited out the blood, guts, and
body parts so we didn't see that part on TV, but some of the footage we
did get to see after the SEP11  events are what I'd call the disturbing
parts.

- - -  JimH.

... Bother, said Pooh, as he tried to think of someting on-topic to add.
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