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Airbus A380 - cockpit
- edw519 19y agoIs it just me, or are the mouse gestures backwards?
- run4yourlives 19y agofirst thing I thought too.
- dskhatri 19y agodrool.. so many buttons
- kirubakaran 19y agoFirst lesson of pilot training: Do not, under any circumstances, drool on the buttons.
- davidw 19y agoHah! When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut...not really because they get to fly around in space, but because I saw a picture of some cockpit with tons of buttons and thought that was pretty cool.
- thomas 19y agowow, nice job. i hate that auto-full screen though. gestures seem to work fine. not backwards for me.
- boucher 19y agoanyone who changes the size of my browser window should be shot.
- pchristensen 19y agoI'll lend you the gun
- run4yourlives 19y agoMeh, I'm not sure why they've got seats in there... it's not like the pilot actually flies the thing. :-)
- sammyo 19y agoBut they could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
- run4yourlives 19y agoOf course, the difference being that a 767 can land on most runways, an A380 can land on about what, 10 worldwide (exaggeration).
- mixmax 19y agoAm I the only one that hates these flash-sites where you first have to figure out the interface, which is often ill conveived and sporadically working across different browsers?
- paulgb 19y agoI think the interface is quite intuitive. When I am using something as simple as this, I would rather learn by playing with it than read any instructions.
- mynameishere 19y agoPiper cub: http://www.tradewind-aviation.com/images/cokpit/cockpit_cub_650.jpg http://www.tradewind-aviation.com/images/cokpit/cockpit_cub_...
- tlrobinson 19y agoFor some reason I imagined the cockpit of the world's largest commercial airliner would be much bigger.
- noonespecial 19y agoI expected it would just be a keyboard where you could type in suggestions to the flight computer. If all three fly-by-wire modules concur that you are not, in fact, a complete moron, the airplane will consider your request. Then again, it would have been much cooler if there had been a "Kirk chair" right in the middle and scantily clad "ensigns" scurrying about.
- sanj 19y agoI wonder if the throttle move. In almost all aircraft, excepting the A3[2|3|4|8]0 family, throttles move when in any automatic mode. If the autoflight system decides to go to full throttle, they'll slide all the way forward. This was definitely true on the B7[5|6]7 series, but I'm not certain about the B777. There were a rash of concerns (though no incidents that I recall) because pilots often leave a hand on the throttle to have a sense of what the aircraft is doing. A sudden movement could mean a change in flight mode or a level off, or a stall. By contrast Airbus's non-moving throttles are just shiny switches. They have detente settings for each mode. They could just as easily be a set of toggle switches.
- pg 19y agoLet me resize my own browser window, please.