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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.
Why not just promote ads based on their conversations like everyone else?
You could even insert ads into the recordings to reach the people who listen to the recordings after an accident!
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.
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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.
Why not just promote ads based on their conversations like everyone else?
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...
The issue is that even a slight overlap with other cockpit functions puts you in a much stricter regime, and thus a simple modern map rendering framework doesn’t work, because its components and dependencies have never been sufficiently dissected - you rather have a 5 second lag, terrible as it sounds from a pragmatic safety perspective, than having anything, especially your own position, misplaced only once in a billion map redraws.
The practical solution is that most airlines by now fly with iPads, Jeppesen Flight Deck Pro but even GA stuff like ForeFlight, which is also owned by Boeing, is popular for quick lookups like taxi instructions etc.
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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.
I'm truly mindblown because of such a waste of luggage space, of general space, and of electronics. In recent years airlines have started to charge even for the small handbag fitted under the seat, while packing even more obsolete eletronics into it. I guess the lobbying of copyright, media, and entertainment industries simply prevails everything including reason and safety.
“First time OBE been here” Shouldn’t a pilot have been everywhere during training, before he takes charge?
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Yeah, I have been in a few server rooms that sound like a jet engine taking off. This server room actually sounds like a jet engine taking off.
More like the sound of the auxiliary power unit at the back of the plane ;)
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It was certified as testes, so the lag has been there for the whole 10 years.
Dependability and reliability override responsiveness
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How would you plug your Macbook into the plane's network?
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-com...