Airbus A380 Cockpit

[Hamma]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/cf311da099b4a010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Quick a cockpit on that thing. A full keyboard there - hopefully it can't whore the internet. :lol:

[Giovanni]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/cf311da099b4a010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Quick a cockpit on that thing. A full keyboard there - hopefully it can't whore the internet. :lol:

I can imagine why you wouldn't want that...

Pilot: "Hey rick look at that girl, she's fucking hot!"
Co-pilot: "Holy shit james..."
P: "Did you hear something?"
Cp: "Meh, must be the girls fighting again just play the damn video."
P: "Oh here it is.... let's pay further attention to this lengthy sex scene."

*BOOM, plane crashed into the CN tower*

[Hamma]

:lol:

"OMG IS THAT GOATSE" *boom*

[Giovanni]

:lol:

"OMG IS THAT GOATSE" *boom*

:rofl:

I can see the crash inspector's face when he listens to the black box! :rofl:

[Squeeky]

I can see it now.

400+ Passengers dead after A380 Airbus plummets into the ocean. The cause of the accident, pilot error. After reviewing the blackbox, it was revealed that both pilots we're playing World of Warcraft, a popular multiplayer PC game, instead of flying the airplane. More details tonight at 11:00....

[Geist]

That would be me in a different dimension.You never post that reply and all I here is the thing about the internet.Then I become a air bus pilot and crash into the stratosphere in Las Vegas(used to live there) 4 minutes after lifting off because my first thought was WoW.

[Exano]

I know its semi-old, but if you think thats nuts, look at these guys

http://www.flightdecksolutions.com

They build their own full-sized cockpits with MS Flight Sim 04.

Im drooling and yet saying "At least I have a life :-\"

[Lartnev]

Well let's be honest, those pilots must get bored for the 99% of the flight where the autopilot is on :D

[Geist]

Sooner or later their going to replace pilots with robots that take over the world.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[Mag-Mower]

Sooner or later their going to replace pilots with robots that take over the world.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Screw the whole middle man, why not just have the whole thing controlled remotley, or have a computer program calculate all the stuff. Of courese, you would need a technician incase something screwed up.

On a side note, I have also thought up ways to have a car drive you to your destination, it is rather complex and pointless, but still cool.

[Biohazzard56]

I dont see a scabbard for the banstick.

[Ghryphen]

When I worked at Boeing we had to call it a flight deck.

[Hamma]

:lol:

What the hell is wrong with Cockpit?

I know its semi-old, but if you think thats nuts, look at these guys

http://www.flightdecksolutions.com

They build their own full-sized cockpits with MS Flight Sim 04.

Im drooling and yet saying "At least I have a life :-\"

Holy crap :eek:

[Peacemaker]

Screw the whole middle man, why not just have the whole thing controlled remotley, or have a computer program calculate all the stuff. Of courese, you would need a technician incase something screwed up.

On a side note, I have also thought up ways to have a car drive you to your destination, it is rather complex and pointless, but still cool.

Pilots will not be replaced by machines for a very very very long time.

Automated Aircraft Crash

Thats the worlds first flying Computer controled aircraft. It did not malfunction, there is just no way a computer can look down at a runway and say "Im too high" because there is way too much varience in aircraft type, airfields around the world, and the weather in which they would operate.

Also if an aircraft controled by computer got its self into an extreme atitude (like more than a 60 degree roll/pitch) the gyros inside the plane would "tumble" a tumbled gyro tells you nothing, and thats the only way a computer could fly an airplane.

[Lartnev]

I think when it's time for planes to be flying themselves they'd be relying on more than just gyros (ie GPS, ground signals etc).

At least I'd hope they'd be :D

[Mag-Mower]

I think when it's time for planes to be flying themselves they'd be relying on more than just gyros (ie GPS, ground signals etc).

At least I'd hope they'd be :D


Thats what I was thinking. I would refuse to go on anything less... but I already refuse to go on airplanes for some reason...

[Ghryphen]

:lol:

What the hell is wrong with Cockpit?

It's not "PC" :doh:

[Giovanni]

Thats what I was thinking. I would refuse to go on anything less... but I already refuse to go on airplanes for some reason...

Because you're a pussy? :p :love:

[Hamma]

It's not "PC" :doh:
Man I hate "PC" :lol:


Origin
cock***183;pit (k***335;k'p***301;t')
It did not originally refer to the navigation center of an airplane. That application of the word did not arise, understandably, until 1914. Prior to that the word referred to the quarters for junior officers on a warship. That meaning arose in 1706. Before that, Cockpit referred to the buildings housing the Trasury and Privy Council in London, which were situated on the site of a former theatre, The Cockpit. The theatre was named thus as it had been located on the site of a former cockpit (from 1587), where cockfights took place.

Definition
cock***183;pit (k***335;k'p***301;t')
n.
<ol><li><ol type="a"><li> The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot, copilot, and sometimes passengers.</li><li> The space set apart for the pilot and crew, as in a helicopter, large airliner, or transport aircraft.</li></ol></li><li> The driver's compartment in a racing car.</li><li> A pit or enclosed area for cockfights.</li><li> A place where many battles have been fought.</li><li><i>Nautical.</i> <ol type="a"><li> A compartment in an old warship below the water line, used as quarters for junior officers and as a station for the wounded during a battle.</li><li> An area in a small decked vessel toward the stern, lower than the rest of the deck, from which the vessel is steered.</li></ol></li></ol>

Interesting. I mean "Cockpit" sounds kind of kinky but your mind has to be in the gutter.

[Peacemaker]

I think when it's time for planes to be flying themselves they'd be relying on more than just gyros (ie GPS, ground signals etc).

At least I'd hope they'd be :D

They already do. GPS isnt accurate enough to be used to fly a plane into land though. That couple meters diffrence is too much for a computer to use to calculate its exact position over a runway. That plane right there failed because the GPS was thrown off by 10 meters, the plane started to land, the elivation changed more than it was supposed to in the computers mind and it compensated by moving the flight path further down the runway, into a forest.

Signals from the ground are already everywhere. Aircraft use a series of ground stations to figure out where they are. VORs, VORTACs, DME, ADF, and VOR Localisers all enable a pilot to tell where he is in relation to airports. The VOR Localiser in specific gives the pilot a glide slope to land with, the only problem is, that glide slope stops at 25 feet from the surface. Then its up to the pilot to judge the landings.

Diffrent types of airplanes are rated for diffrent types of weather. The worst weather is 0 0 visibility and only the super modern planes like A380s which are labled as Catagory 4 aircraft can preform a 0 0 landing. While this is possible it is very unsafe and as far as I know they hardly do it.