This sounds like a great idea, and is just the sort of technology you would think would have been invented to help with manual docking. I think it would be best off in the HUD, though - like the "targetting tunnel" in Frontier. If it was shown down on the dashboard you might spend all your time when docking staring down at it rather than looking forwards at the majesty of the station entrance!
Only reason I see is that cool effect of that announcer voice echoing
Of course it can be explained in other ways. But everything can have its excuses.
But filling that huge space with air just to hear that cool echo and few minor reasons.... not really smart
Well I wonder if the idea is that the whole of the inside of the space station is filled with air? In which case it seems easier to just have a single shielded hole to look after, rather than a whole load of internal airlocks.
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