Avionics
Following bizav’s lead, many airlines see the virtues of HUD
After many years of diligent, and what must often have been discouraging, marketing efforts by their manufacturers, sales of head-up displays (HUD) have no

After many years of diligent, and what must often have been discouraging, marketing efforts by their manufacturers, sales of head-up displays (HUD) have now taken off and are climbing rapidly. The main impetus behind this is the recognition by the airlines that HUD confers unique operational and cost benefits that are simply not available in the standard flight deck.

Of course, this is not a new discovery. Corporate operators have always been much quicker than the airlines to adopt new technologies, and this has certainly been true of HUD, which is estimated to have been installed in more than 400 business aircraft since the early 1990s.