AOPA Pilot Magazine - May 2019 - 83

"We have the greatest
playground on Earth.
The people are there
to be recruited."
curriculum and by speaking to kids about
how aviation can enhance their future. "We
have the greatest playground on Earth," he
said. "The people are there to be recruited."
Irving thinks future maintainers will come
from automotive and marine backgrounds,
and that for aviation to thrive, it needs to be
a regular subject in the classroom. "Look at
coding. It's become a mainstay in the classroom. We're going to need to take a similar
approach. No more after-school programs,
we need to be in the classroom."
Those classrooms need to be in rich private schools as well as struggling inner city
schools, as Irving's was. He said one of the
ironies of the challenge is that many airports
are located in minority neighborhoods, just
as his was. He was able to succeed because
of a chance meeting with an airline pilot, an
experience he's hoping to pass on to the next
generation.

THE HUD
OF 2039

LIGHTNING
FAST
UPDATES

Ideally, no HUD at all
BY THOMAS A. HORNE

JEFF
HAUSMANN

Barrington Irving flew solo around the
world when he was only 23; he says at that
time it made him the youngest person ever
to accomplish the feat and the first African
American. Today he nurtures future aviation
professionals through a nationwide STEM
(science, technology, engineering, and math)

WHAT CHANGES COULD we expect from
20 years of head-up display technology advancement? According to Jeff
Hausmann, director, Advanced Flight
Deck at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation,
some technology trends are clear and longstanding, namely higher-performance and
lower-cost computer processing, but others are more recent, such as shorter product
cycles and the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence. "We believe technology
trends and user preferences will manifest themselves in three key areas: smaller,
lighter HUDs with larger fields of view
and higher resolutions; enhanced customization of displays to better suit mission
demands and user preferences; and finally,
the ultimate in HUD technology: HUD on a
windscreen," Hausmann said.
"The first HUD trend will be enabled
by faster processors and improved optics,"
he added. "These should support
a larger field of view with
more compact optics to
minimize any intrusions
into the pilot's personal
space. We also expect these
advancements to reduce the
cost of HUDs, allowing their
deployment into more flight
decks, including general aviation
aircraft."
Hausmann said that processor and
optics improvements will grow to support enhanced display customization. "For
example, Gulfstream strongly believes in
reducing crew workload by organizing information by phase of flight, using touchscreen

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