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Windows in unusual places
Another fun image from the guys at Channel9, this time a picture of an Airbus A380 cockpit with a couple of screens with what looks like Windows.
It's fairly unlikely it's there for anything important, although what worries me more is not so much the thought of the pilot surfing Facebook during a fight, but for the potential arguments between him and the co-pilot over the single keyboard.
I'm sure the budget isn't that tight on the Airbus construction.
Actually, what is worrying, and I'm hoping that this is a trick of lighting, but there only appears to be rudder pedals on one side of the cockpit. Rather difficult to swap over in the event of the pilot eating the chicken....
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Someone has done a bit of Photoshop work on the two displays that flank the pilot & co-pilot There actually is a folding data entry keyboard and table that comes out from under the instrument panel to occupy the control column's normal position. The flight control is now a small side-stick that doesn't get in the way of the display views or interfere with access to any of the push buttons.
posted-by Geoff Hutton | August 19, 2007 12:45 PM