I'm wondering what part of that setup is necessary for flight. And what is entertainment for the passengers.
The entertainment electronics are in the headrests so that the kids behind you can regularly hit your headrest for your convenience.
Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
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#12“First time OBE been here” Shouldn’t a pilot have been everywhere during training, before he takes charge?
Why?
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#13So the next breed of terrorists will likely be those who’ll take over the flight avionics while on the plane? Laptops to be banned soon
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#14Later in the video at 4:48 approx he demonstrates the nav computer GUI in the cockpit and I cringed when he used the touchscreen and there was a lag of about 2-5 (!) seconds after every interaction. My... god.... I kind of almost heard the mechanical drive seeking and reading and searching the heavily fragmented map data...
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#15I'm wondering what part of that setup is necessary for flight. And what is entertainment for the passengers.
The entertainment electronics are in the headrests so that the kids behind you can regularly hit your headrest for your convenience.
I believe there are also some boxes under every other seat row that hold the small servers and disks for the thin clients in the headrest.
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#16Later in the video at 4:48 approx he demonstrates the nav computer GUI in the cockpit and I cringed when he used the touchscreen and there was a lag of about 2-5 (!) seconds after every interaction. My... god.... I kind of almost heard the mechanical drive seeking and reading and searching the heavily fragmented map data...
Probably because it is 10 year old older hardware but thoroughly tested.
Using Chrome/JS/CSS on the latest Ryzen might be neat but when you need to transport 300 passengers daily around there is other sort of concerns then taking up 3 folks to the ISS every 6 months.
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#17It is far where we had to turn the propeller ourselves!
Nice and interesting visit.
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#18Later in the video at 4:48 approx he demonstrates the nav computer GUI in the cockpit and I cringed when he used the touchscreen and there was a lag of about 2-5 (!) seconds after every interaction. My... god.... I kind of almost heard the mechanical drive seeking and reading and searching the heavily fragmented map data...
Youtube interrupted the video with an ad for me exactly at that timestamp, airplanes still need to catch up. So much monetization left on the table. Pilots must be among the most valuable target audience.
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#20Damn, having that sort of view like at timestamp 3:52 [1] from your workplace makes me jealous...
Here's another jealousy-enducing video of pilots looking outside (from 4:23 onwards)[2], it says "Middle East" but they were flying over the East of China and the Aral sea...
[1] https://youtu.be/241-5DZyons?t=232 [2] https://youtu.be/6KRZEZTTcWk?t=263