I'd love to own/fly this beauty (Piper Malibu Matrix).
Watch the main displays.  All it needs is FSX or FS9 Google Earth loaded.
Would be cool to have a accurately positioned runway on the display as you land.

I'm sure one day that feature will be available.  :rolleyes:

RJ

Excellent smoothness—no vibrations! The runway seems very short, especially from the angle at 0:50. 

 

All it needs is FSX or FS9 loaded and you could watch yourself land.

 

Or X-plane, austin's already done it:

 

http://verticalpower.com/vp-400/

 

"We're going to need one red button and the airplane actually uses a little miniature flight simulator running inside of it to predict what would be the best thing it could do in the event that the engine quits. It's called the VP-400. You can Google that and learn about it, and I actually wrote the VP-400 or a large part of the VP-400 with a small team, and that is in the Evolution. And then the interesting thing about that is I then took the VP-400 code, and I port it over to the iPad and we call that Xavion, and you can get that at the App Store right now.

Or X-plane, austin's already done it:

 

http://verticalpower.com/vp-400/

 

I did not know that... Thanks for the link..

 

RJ

Cool video! and they do have synthetic vision witch displays a runway on the PFD

 

 

That's what's so cool about RW flying...all that glass and not the slightest drop in FPS.  LOL.  Really sweet.

That's what's so cool about RW flying...all that glass and not the slightest drop in FPS.  LOL.  Really sweet.

No Anti-Aliasing problems either.

 

Have you seen the cirrus cockpit? It looks like a car.

 

The "Air-Conditioning" function switch looks like one you find in a soccer mom's Minivan.

Boooring!

 

This is all you need for IFR:

 

 

And for VFR:

 

Or X-plane, austin's already done it:

 

http://verticalpower.com/vp-400/

I had to do a double-take on that before I realized that this is a real world system that's available now for Lancair kit builders. The developers simply used X-Plane as a ground based testing system which is both cheaper and safer than using a real aircraft for such experiments... :lol:

 

It was the clip from AOPA that convinced me that this wasn't a joke! B)