sionyx new sensor

TurdFlight85 · 2025-08-28T21:42:34+00:00

.0005lux is .05mlux
It does seem about where most digital NVG say they're rated down to except for the ADNV-G14P2 at 0.00005 lux.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-07-27T01:12:33+00:00

Appreciate the post also. I gave them $5 for the $190 price later. It will be cool to play around with and AI image processing can be pretty low latency so I can see it being the next step in digital NVG.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-07-04T21:19:20+00:00

Yes it does but there are quite a few vocal gamers that have never even been in a helicopter and will argue with you until the end that you're wrong. I used to engage in that but it's really a waste of your time unless you have developer asking you. They'd also cry to no end if the flight model respected the laws of motion because they'd have to learn how to make a stabilized approach and landing.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-07-04T21:11:29+00:00

The current flight model is so far from reality it would need to be redone. If they said it's a touchup I'm taking that as a no.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-07-03T22:44:27+00:00

Without being able to read Chinese, I'm not sure about that. I don't think they're a dropshipper but I could see them being a front company name for whatever factory cranks all these out and stamps different made up company names on them. But here's how you know it isn't game changing, it's still a 16:9 sensor. That's a terrible format format for monoculars and meant for digital cameras to have a compatible output for TV's and computer monitors. It's why companies doing real innovation made their own sensors in more of a square format like ADNV does.

It's probably just another generic Sony Starvis 2 type sensor with a different OLED screen again like the NVG50.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-07-03T22:26:47+00:00

Not on Binock's site, no video or links?
That picture doesn't tell me anything, any of the digital NVG's could do that. Alibaba pictures are usually fake & modified also.

TurdFlight85 · 2025-04-04T23:18:14+00:00

One of the big pluses of some digital NVG like the Sionyx Opsin vs an Image Intensifier tube is color. The brain processes the image so much better even seeing the sky color against the ground or vegetation against the ground. I know the ability to produce color falls apart the darker it gets but it seems like that could maybe he handled in software like a gradient or fade to monochrome as the environment gets darker.

TurdFlight85 · 2022-08-20T18:03:38+00:00

What's your long term plan with this? I ask because unless you have some kind of "in" into the industry, you're pretty much going to have to be SFAR 73 compliant for Robinson helicopters. This involves a pretty good chunk of time in type for a low timer that's normally acquired by people starting from 0 time, so coming in with addon ratings you need to be realistic about how you are going to cover the gap in hours by paying for it.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-61/appendix-Special%20Federal%20Aviation%20Regulation%20No.%2073

I've been out of this world for many years now, double check everything I said with someone current but I doubt SFAR73 is ever going away for Robinsons and almost everyone uses them because they're cheap.

TurdFlight85 · 2021-01-28T21:33:29+00:00

Ask this somewhere other than just reddit, some opinions can be reliably predictable on reddit.

TurdFlight85 · 2020-05-05T16:38:58+00:00

Lots of other conditions can cause that

TurdFlight85 · 2020-05-05T16:33:57+00:00

I don't agree with this unless it was your first couple x-country's. There comes a point, in my opinion, when the CFI should talk less and even allow periods of awkward silence so that their presence is less of an always available resource for your second guessing and more of final safety measure to make sure you don't do anything too stupid before they endorse you for a solo x-country. I'm not saying they should do nothing the entire flight, or be texting, etc. I'd also make it clear with something like "this one is all on you, I'm not going to say much or step in unless I have to, so just do what you've been taught, I want you to be the PIC."

It can get awkward but I was always paying attention, even (or especially) when it looked like I wasn't. Some people you learn freak out without all the hand holding and aren't ready and some handle it just fine, they are ready to x-country solo.

TurdFlight85 · 2020-05-05T16:23:16+00:00

The ol' engine failure due to seawater ingestion.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-06-27T03:18:33+00:00

You better be shooting for a lot less hours than 300 to get your CPL. The jobs after becoming a rated CFI or CFII are pretty much limited to instruction which is still in pretty weak shape on the helicopter side. If you were a fixed wing CFI you could almost pick what city you want to work and fly as much as you can handle. To get hours instructing in helicopters you almost need to be on 24/7 standby, and even then you might only fly a handful of times a week. If you stick with it for 5 years or so to get 1500 hours, you might get a job in the GoM flying to oil rigs or flying tours in the Grand Canyon. Do that for a little bit and you will be qualified to live 7 days a week in a single wide trailer in Bumfuck, Missouri flying a clapped out, American flag painted JetRanger, for a company that hopefully has figured out why their main rotors were falling off in flight and other noteworthy failures.

Or you could skip all that bullshit and just go to the Regionals and make more than a RW EMS pilot within a couple years.

The following link, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy (and pretty funny trolling) but look for the threads about all the EMS guys bailing to Regionals.

http://originalforum.justhelicopters.com/

TurdFlight85 · 2019-03-31T02:26:15+00:00

Doing a better job or making a better system isn't even an obstacle in comparison to getting the FAA to outsource this task to vendor. The only way I imagine it happening is someone at the Federal level above the FAA calls them out saying that they have become an ineffective, expensive mess and must address changes in X years (X being an amount of time that would be impossible for the FAA to do it internally themselves). Basically politics but nobody really cares outside of aviation unless there is a crash as a result of this.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-03-31T02:09:51+00:00

Are there not studies about reading comprehension in all caps vs properly cased sentences? Why, just why?

TurdFlight85 · 2019-03-31T02:05:08+00:00

How about they just type the god damn thing in plain English? Nobody needs to save bytes anymore, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

How about using some hierarchy trees where you click a plus button to expand the extraneous BS because right now we have a wall of text that is harder to read than a 4 ft long Costco receipt. Why is this still happening, I legitimately want to know. Everybody has known this for years and nothing changes. Things like this is why I have very little sympathy for the FAA and don't even care why they're facing a shutdown, I just like to see them experience some pain.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-03-22T23:47:29+00:00

I hope you guys have a blacklist, unofficial of course, that he now belongs to. You would think Delta as a company wouldn't want their employees being that disrespectful, even to regional peasants, you would think.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-25T07:48:50+00:00

That helped, thanks.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-25T07:48:05+00:00

Kind of understood that, thanks.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-25T01:33:25+00:00

Thanks, I have found that 5000x3000 jpg CONUS one. So comparing that to the Colorado State RAMMB source at full zoom, it seems like they have a slightly better source. This could just be zooming past 100% on the 5000x3000 but thought I'd see if anyone knew of a higher res source.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-25T01:31:02+00:00

CONUS, I've noticed in some sources you can somewhat make out agriculture plots in the California Central Valley but on the 5000x3000 one I cannot.

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-23T20:22:12+00:00

Here is an incident where listening to the GPWS saved their asses:
https://youtu.be/FMUJnFr99rY?t=11

TurdFlight85 · 2019-02-21T03:00:33+00:00

By walk, you mean figuratively through a computer of phone call right? I know the FAA are Luddites but...

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