American Airlines CRJ-700 collides with helicopter near Reagan National

Definitely depth perception issues as well as spatial awareness limitations. It gets better the more you fly and train, but it's a perishable skill. Most of the time we wouldn't use them over the cities just because it would wash out everything, so we'd fly VFR and transition to NVGs as we got out of the city.


and they are "goggles" so left/right field of view is limited ( unless looking directly at the object ) and even then, i can imagine the depth issue unless you stay on that object to determine speed/heading etc.

Just glancing at wont give you enough information.

what a terrible, tragic accident.