I just received my HUDWAY Cast today and so far I am impressed. This is a projection HUD. Apple quality packaging. Easy setup for wifi and then just AirPlay. Nice and bright today when I tried it in my car and the clarity was very good. Am pleased to report that it displays the entire screen: tried it with both WingX and MiraCheck. Every thing was easily readable. This done with my iPhone. Can't see why it would be different with iPad.

These nice Russian people claim 20X brighter than an iPhone with virtual 20" image focused at 8 ft.

I paid $159 as an early KickStarter but it is now available for $199.

http://www.hudwaycast.com

At Airventure Oshkosh last year mygoflight was showing its MGF SKYDISPLAY HUD. It seems dedicated and must be interfaced to existing avionics. I asked about pricing but the answers were evasive but I took it as over $1K as they were comparing it to $150K systems. but it seems to be not yet available.

http://mgfproducts.com/content/HUD%20Se ... online.pdf

The only issues that I see in the plane is that I wear bi-focals and if it on top of the glareshield, it may be in the prescription part of my view and not the reading glasses part. Didn't seem to matter in the car? And I will have to put in a multiple cigarette type charger or other solution as I use one of these now for my Garmin.

Am tempted to buy a BOM so I can get AoA up on the HUD.

https://levil-aviation-powered-by-tucan ... -with-adsb

But I just spent $4K redoing my front seats in ConforFoam and leather and covering my back jump seats.

Any my plane is in annual so I will have to see how this all turns out. It's only money.

Blue skies,

Tom

What are you HUDding?
AOA, airspeed, moving map, facebook, or ?
How about an in-use or in-flight photo?

Any application you can run on your iPhone will also display on the HUD. Uses WiFi & AirPlay just like I use to stream movies from my iPhone to large screen TV.

I generally run WingX in Moving Map mode on my iPad which is on my 182 yoke; also run MiraCheck in slide over mode here. I like this setup.

But I also have an iPhone 6 Plus and I can also run WingX in Attitude Indicator or Synthetic Vision mode. These are candidates for the HUD. Also I use the iLevil AHARS / ADSB box and they have an Attitude Indicator/Speed/ RoC, etc. If I buy their BOM, they also display Angle of Attack. This might be a good candidate for the HUD. I also use an application called AltitudeAlert and not sure on this.

I will experiment and report back... Thanks for your interest.

Blue skies,

Tommy

I know what I would have on HUD

Something to inspire passenger’s confidence

You could even do a Stormy Daniels video; the sky is the limit. LOL

Blue skies,

Tommy

TommyN wrote:You could even do a Stormy Daniels video; the sky is the limit. LOL

Telling your copilot to "keep your hands off the stick" takes on a whole new meaning.

I have worked more with the HUD and have some preliminary opinions. It works well in the car and plane (although no flight tests done yet due to annual in progress).

One of my frustrations was that in Settings on the iPhone, the Wifi would connect and then display that the connection was lost; but, in reality, it was still connected. There is mention of this in the Help. Seems reliable. Also the display is persistent; after I cut the power, the display remains? Not sure for how long...

This pix is the HUD running Miracheck off my iPhone 6s Plus. I took the pix with an iPad and am not great on the alignment. While sitting in the car in the driveway under a bright CA sun, I see full screen and it is very legible. I will get a picture of Miracheck in use in the plane the next time I go to the airport. So hardware and visibility-wise, I am pleased. What can one expect for $159?

There does seems to be a fly in my soup however. The HUD is Wifi based and I planned to use my iPhone with WingX or the iLevel application to put up Synthetic Vision or the Attitude Indicator on the HUD. However the iPhone can only handle one Wifi network at a time and needs Wifi for AHARS. So I am questioning what to display on the HUD and possible applications. Would need an app that does not depend on a Wifi AHARS or other source for use and uses the iPhones GPS and AHRS sensors. There is one good German one with 60 days free but then it is $160 per year. Another German one is $4; will try it. There are some BT AHARS boxes but I don't need another box in the cockpit.

If you could put up any iOS application on the HUD what would it be? I am only thinking VFR for now but IFR comments appreciated. Thanks,

Blue skies,

Tommy

No offense to anyone who's into it,
but it sure seems like flying these days is less about flying and more about gizmos.
About the only thing I'd want HUDded onto my windshield would be an AOA indicator.
Maybe.

I agree Hotrod, but I think motoadve's AOA indicator has encouraged him to find some of those, made up by me, V speeds below Vso in ground effect. I would prefer to fly with someone, but Dave has really picked up apparent rate or AOA or feel or all three.

On your high, slow, full flaps, power pitch approach, do you run one speed all the way down or do you slow a bit and add more power coming into ground effect?

contactflying wrote:....On your high, slow, full flaps, power pitch approach, do you run one speed all the way down or do you slow a bit and add more power coming into ground effect?

FWIW I think I would describe it as "steep" rather than "high".
I generally let the speed decrease the closer I get to the runway.
Often fly downwind/base at 70-75, turn final at 65-70,
then let the speed decrease as I come down.
Kinda like your brisk walk thing only I don't have a fancy name for it.
I pull the nose up more (comes up by itself some also) as I come into ground effect.
I don't generally add power at that point, just hold it where it is,
then I ease the power off after the descent stops (or at least greatly decreases) in ground effect which lets the airplane touch down.
Harder to describe properly than to do it.

Hotrod 180,

Certainly more do than talk about it. Thanks for the comments.

Contact