Two presenters demo Boom's Overture cockpit simulator, showing its infrared cameras and synthetic terrain overlays. They attempt a landing at Heathrow at 165 knots but things go wrong, revealing how tricky it is to fly with all that automation.
Boom has this XB-1 simulator and a simulator of the future Overture aircraft. It's the Overture one that I'm really into. It's a cockpit with a modern twist. Finally.
So I just come in through the center here and climb, climb over. I'm going to go left? Yeah, go left. So this, this is the, what's called the primary flight display. You and I both have one. It'll have infrared cameras, it'll have millimeter wave radar, plus it'll have synthetic terrain that's overlaid out of a Terrain database.
And the pilots will only wear the headset for takeoff and landing? That's right. Okay.
So your throttles are here, and we are lined up straight in for London Heathrow. Okay. And your landing gear is already down, and your approach speed is about 165 knots. As we get down, like right over the runway threshold, you can start bringing the power back, and it will grade your landing based on how much you maintain your glide slope and how gentle your touchdown was.
All right, ready?
I think so! I'd push the nose a little bit and take all 4 of those and pull them back. Okay— oh wait, I want to be in the blue line. Do I want to be in the blue line? Yeah, that's your, that's your 3-degree glide slope but that little green target is your flight path indicator. A little bit more push and a little bit more to the right. Oh there we go, okay uh small correction then come back to left. What is wrong with this plane?! Your power is all the way off you're gonna bring a little bit more power in now. Oh god. Yeah, the runway's on the left. I don't even think I was aiming to the right runway. Oh, we're gonna mow the yard.
