Why is the hatch hinged in the most awkward way possible? If the hinges were on any other side, it would be so much more accessible, there must be a reason for this?
Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time machine. In the 70s if you were under 10 and crossing the Atlantic, the co-pilot would proactively invite you to the cockpit, show you everything, then give you a model toy plane and a lapel pin.
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
We're all counting on you
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes that was the joke.
You're being snarky about someone not getting your snarky joke about how someone else didn't get someone else's other snarky joke... too much snark.
I think you're attributing malice (as snark) where there is none. The jokes were in good fun, and buried in a days-old thread.
"That was the joke" is a well-known tongue-in-cheek response, it certainly wasn't meant to be snarky.
Sorry if this bothered you, I know HN tends to be self-serious and I forget that sometimes.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since we don't know anything about the internals, it's safe to say the goal was "good enough and certified" vs. "snappy but no guarantees it works correctly 100% of the time". This is an airplane after all, not a consumer-grade gadget.
They might have different standards and I'm not a pilot, but in my opinion having multiple seconds of UI lag in vitally important interfaces is not good enough nor deserves certification.
Some of that may be due to redundant devices. You're waiting for at least 2 devices to return a reading, and probably a third thing that handles reconciling the results.
The speed of this thing doesn't seem particularly vital either. Everything of interest in a split second scenario is already on-screen; just looking at their speed, it would you a comparatively long time to get off the edge of the map. If you have time to get off the edge of the map, you have time to wait a couple seconds for the page to load. If you don't have time to get off the edge of the map, there's not really a reason to fidget with it.
I agree, it seems annoying, but it doesn't ultimately seem dangerous. I can't think of a situation where you a) need to change the screen, and b) don't have time to wait for the UI to update. And I would much rather have 2 seconds of UI lag to get a known correct response than milli/nano seconds of lag to get a probably correct response. Most of us exist in a world where the response time is more important than absolute correctness.
Re: Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just seems weird to brit have had just a basic tour of every part of the plane so if smoke starts pouring out of the hatch they know what it looks like down there.
It is part of type rating training to learn on paper (well, usually ipad/computer based training) what is where on the aircraft. But that doesn't mean pilots ever really go there in the real plane.
sure there’s no reason To go in normal cases, but I’d think a pilot should know every inch of the plane. I’d expect a captain of a ship to have been in the galley for example even if they normally don’t need to go.
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#186So 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
That was a theory for MH370
Re: Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
#187Later 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...
Yes, and the correct response is: of all the flights that have crashed and killed people in the last 10 years: was the slowness of the UI for flight operations the root cause? The answer to that is: "almost certainly a very tiny one". Aviation computing, while externally quite boring, is exciting in the sense that tremendous effort is put into making a computing system that ensures a flight makes it from its source t…
A few accidents? There are 20 seasons of Air Crash Investigation, and 20 episodes each. Total 400+ accidents (probably a quarter of which with the DC-10).
There are only 480 submarines in the world, and the 400 episodes exclude General Aviation accidents (non-planned routes) so there are definitely more planes than submarines which dived into water…