| BIG IDEA | Inventing TECH This lab is developing GA's future BY MIKE COLLINS FROM THE PILOT'S SEAT OF A GENERAL AVIATION AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR, Matthew Pollack taps the screen of an Apple iPad and asks a series of questions. The tablet's moving-map app responds-verbally and textually-with the control tower hours, automatic terminal information service frequency, and tower frequency. Then Pollack tells the app his intended destination and it sets his course on the map display. This isn't a commercially available app, however. Pollack, co-head of MITRE's Aviation Human-Centered Experimentation and Training I L LU S T R AT I O N B Y TAY LO R C A L L E R Y P H OT O G R A P H Y B Y T H E A U T H O R www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 75http://www.aopa.org/pilot