navigation system for jumper / automatic landing system

[voltage 0]

This is a video from EADS, Germany. They have developped a navigation system with head up display for jumpers as well as an automatic landing system for cargo (in the video you see a ram air parachute with cargo flared and landed by a computer)

http://www.eads.net/1024/de/pressdb/innovation_topic/Archiv/ParaFinder_ParaLander.html

I am curious how long it will take for the old-fashioned radio being replaced by a navigation system (for the students) and the others landing with their ALD (automatic landing device). Maybe they will even have an auto swoop mode you just have to relax and look cool and the computer will do the rest



edit to add: here is the same link in english:

http://www.eads.net/1024/en/pressdb/innovation_topic/Archiv/ParaFinder_ParaLander.html

[Steve_Lewis 0]

People will always want to fly their canopies, but what about a solo instead of a tandem?