Originally Posted by
KAISERSOZE
Agree.
Only the PF is looking outside, the other one looks at his screen. And the PF looks far away, not under the nose.
Forward look, airspeed, power. Constantly.
With lights you can see several hundred feet. To get hit by an airplane a person would have to be within 10-15 (?) meters of the landing gear when the airplane was a couple hundred of meters away if the plane was doing 130 kts, or more.
The landing lights light up enough to see a person if they're close enough. To hit them at some point they had to be close enough to be illuminated by the landing lights.
Could you do much about a person appearing in your field of view a couple of seconds prior to impact? No. Even if you saw them? No.
And you can't "look under the nose" in an airliner. You can't see anything within 5-10 meters of the nose.
At night you can only see several hundred feet for illuminated objects but runway lights can be seen for miles and miles.
People can look up night time takeoffs on youtube to estimate the forward visibility the landing lights provide. They can look up runway markings to get distance estimates.