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MGF HUD: Credible Contender

HUDs are simple in concept, but not so simple to engineer and install. They're basically an optical projector that displays an informationally compressed flight data display on a glass screen called a combiner. The idea is that the pilot can look through the display and see critical data such as attitude and airspeed while avoiding the distraction of looking down at the panel. The display has to be engineered in such a way that the data appears almost at infinity, so as to be an aid, not a distraction.

Paul Bertorelli
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The head-up display or HUD is all but standard equipment in airliners and business jets, but it has proven a resilient non-starter in light aircraft general aviation. We would guess this is because pilots don’t see a burning need for HUDs and, thus far, none have worked very well.

MGF-MyGoFlight Products-hopes to reset that clock with its SkyDisplay HUD aimed dead center at the light aircraft and small turbine market. It’s intended as an affordable option, but at $25,000 installed, some might argue the point.

Paul Bertorelli

Paul Bertorelli is Aviation Consumer’s Editor at Large. In addition to his valued contributions to Aviation Consumer, his in-depth video productions on sister publication AVweb cover a wide variety of topics that greatly contribute to safety, operation and aircraft ownership. When Paul isn’t writing or filming, he’s out flying his J3 Cub.