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I'm wondering what part of that setup is necessary for flight. And what is entertainment for the passengers.
Entertainment might have main content distribution server there, as well as gateway between flight systems and entertainment (how you get current flight info and stuff like plane cameras)
I always wondered: what would it take me to fly in the cockpit? I'm not a pilot, but I'm willing to be subjected to any amount of security/background check that'll let me witness the machine in action, end-to-end.
Even people flying jump are usually outside the flightdeck sitting in the uncomfortable seats in the galley.
I always wondered: what would it take me to fly in the cockpit? I'm not a pilot, but I'm willing to be subjected to any amount of security/background check that'll let me witness the machine in action, end-to-end.
You need very good contacts inside an airline. Personal contacts with captain and the like. Sometimes you still can get jump seat flights (a rather uncomfortable seat used for ferrying extra crew) in the cockpit.
Later 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...
You would imagine the software and hardware should be several levels above what we would expect to get from even premium brands such as Apple M1 etc. Because it's hard to imagine the pilot trying to restart a piece of equipment in an emergency and getting a blank white screen and a "do you want to send an error report" message coming up.
You would actually expect it to be several levels below, but extremely well tested, just like spacecraft hardware/software.
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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.
That is no excuse. It was possible to create almost instantly responsive UIs more than 20 years ago.
In related news (same aicraft type involved), Airbus is working with their existing A350 customer Cathay Pacific to explore single pilot operations while in high altitude cruise. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive...
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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.