"This Helmet Mounted Display System provides the pilot with cues for flying, navigating and fighting the aircraft. It will even superimpose infra-red imagery onto the visor which allows the pilot to ‘look through’ the cockpit floor at night and see the world below," according to the UK Ministry of Defence.
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The problem is that this is a piece of electronic equipment and it doesn't look like it is very easy to remove in the event that something goes wrong. You don't want to be in the middle of a 3G turn and have this thing fail, because in addition to everything else, you are now blind.
There are a lot of things that are great in simulators that don't belong on aircraft.
It looks like he's wearing an XBox on his face.
Maybe they'll have just one of the two pilots wear it, so the other one can fly the old fashioned way.
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