Nice, I'm getting some "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie vibes from that!
Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you plug your Macbook into the plane's network?
Get some buddies to load some luggage. Walk in while loading luggage?
I was thinking the same thing, but I believe the door is locked which is why his operating of the handle was slightly weird
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#43So 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
How would you plug your Macbook into the plane's network?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get some buddies to load some luggage. Walk in while loading luggage?
Luggage is rolled in with containers and then locked in place (to prevent them rolling around), that's what the rails at the bottom are there for. You would not be able to get out again.
Unfortunately, it's been conclusively shown that getting out again isn't necessarily mission critical for terrorists.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Where's the commercial benefit though? The cost of certification is huge so upgrades after initial certification don't happen unless the tech has big cost benefit (or safety, which is also cost at second order). Hence A320 still running on Motorola 68000 of Sega Genesis etc fame. And 737max having a top panel from the 60s.
I was joking obviously but that would the the answer to the marketing manager.
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#46Later 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...
The lag looks more to me like waiting for network response with the imagery...
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#47“First time OBE been here” Shouldn’t a pilot have been everywhere during training, before he takes charge?
Right? Moreover: why is this guy who's never been in it before allowed to go down there and walk around, completely unescorted?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where's the commercial benefit though? The cost of certification is huge so upgrades after initial certification don't happen unless the tech has big cost benefit (or safety, which is also cost at second order). Hence A320 still running on Motorola 68000 of Sega Genesis etc fame. And 737max having a top panel from the 60s.
I was joking obviously but that would the the answer to the marketing manager.
Ah you were saying serve ads on the flightdeck displays! Ok that's innovative- I'd recommend featuring big watches, mirrored sunglasses and divorce lawyers.
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#49Why it is so big?
I think it’s because anyway there is space under the cockpit and that’s structural. So there is no reason nor incentives to make those machines smaller while sacrificing fixability. It’s either that or seats or kerosene. There is not enough room for seats, and it’s not an acceptable place to store kerosene (too dangerous in case of crash and can cause stability issues as the volume of kerosene decreases while flying)…
Could be additional cargo space. Airlines would be quite happy, they could accept more cargo = more $.
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#50Even assuming quadruple redundancy, seven nines uptime and resilience to extreme conditions and cosmic rays, this looks way way bigger than it should be. One explanation could be that the certification process for anything aviation related is so expensive and slow that we're actually looking at tech from 15+ years ago.
This isn't Uber or Tesla, they don't move fast and break things here.