A380 Cockpit

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:04 pm 0

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0 ... id=0908781

Quit surfing and fly the God damned plane motherfucker!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:06 pm 0

Hehe, they've molded a pair of breasts into the panel.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:12 pm 0

I like the way it has a pair of little plates just below the windscreen telling you what the plane's registration number is.

Just in case, you know, you forget what aircraft you just got into

Little stoned kiwi · Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:13 pm 0

Considering how often I've seen computers crash, all that tech in a plane is a bit unsettling.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:16 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:I like the way it has a pair of little plates just below the windscreen telling you what the plane's registration number is.

Just in case, you know, you forget what aircraft you just got into

To be fair, if you drove a different car every day, and you couldn't see the outside from the inside (if you see what I mean), and control towers pestered you every five minutes for details of how much fuel you had remaining and why you had driven into restricted airspace, you'd be thankful for whatever you got!

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:16 pm 0

Little stoned kiwi wrote:Considering how often I've seen computers crash, all that tech in a plane is a bit unsettling.

Especially when it's obviously a Sinclair QL on the left-hand side running the show.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:24 pm 0

Little stoned kiwi wrote:Considering how often I've seen computers crash, all that tech in a plane is a bit unsettling.

A year or two back, when the new ferries were introduced for the Orkney and Shetland runs, the public were allowed to look round them.

It was a bit unnerving to see that all the built in computers on the bridge were running Windows 2000.

TT · Post by TT » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:57 pm 0

I'm scared by that pic. I mean where's the big stick thingies???

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:04 am 0

Ratsoap wrote:
Little stoned kiwi wrote:Considering how often I've seen computers crash, all that tech in a plane is a bit unsettling.
A year or two back, when the new ferries were introduced for the Orkney and Shetland runs, the public were allowed to look round them.

It was a bit unnerving to see that all the built in computers on the bridge were running Windows 2000.

Because it works

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:07 am 0

I thought they would have been a bit more discreet showing things like that off what with all the terrorist shenaniggins

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:15 am 0

TT wrote:I'm scared by that pic. I mean where's the big stick thingies???

I don't know how to tell you this, but the majority of your average consumer flight is autopilot.

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:44 am 0

Little stoned kiwi wrote:Considering how often I've seen computers crash, all that tech in a plane is a bit unsettling.

That's why they have pilots (and co-pilots). When the tech fails they are supposed to fly the plane manually. I just hope they still remember how to do that.

P.S. I think the take off and the landing are still manual too and so are the "roller coasters" when hitting a lot of turbulence.

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:10 am 0

PFVA wrote: I think the take off and the landing are still manual too and so are the "roller coasters" when hitting a lot of turbulence.

you are right. Well with BA anyway. Can't say for other airlines.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:24 am 0

I'm scared by that pic. I mean where's the big stick thingies???

Airbusses are Fly-by-wire. The big stick thingies are the dinky Quickshot II's next to the seats.

See the panel below the MFC's? My dad makes them in Southend.

Post by **RiK** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:34 am 0

Tepic wrote:
I'm scared by that pic. I mean where's the big stick thingies???
Airbusses are Fly-by-wire. The big stick thingies are the dinky Quickshot II's next to the seats.

So they can only employ left-handed pilots and right handed co-pilots then?

Dead sensible that eh!