It is fascinating for me watching this instrumentation thingee beginning to happen. I remember very clearly the first " flight directors " appearing in the gliders I used to fly and then GPS navigation becoming integrated into that " flight direction ".

It was truely amazing the very short time it took for the users to adopt the technology and an even more amazing,the short time for the instrumentation to become better than the pilot to " direct the flight". One thing for sure guys it is going to happen considering the size of the market and one thing for sure it will enhance our sailing experiance, what it will not do though is make the poorer sailor better than the best sailor, it simply moves the goal posts equally for everyone.

The one odd thing for me has always been why has it taken so long considering the development of big boat instrumentation over the last ten years.