Visual Monitoring of Control Surfaces in Flight
Something I've often wondered over the years....
We often hear (sadly) of accidents where 'the pilot shut down the wrong engine' or suchlike.
Given the size of pinhole cameras these days, could there not be several mounted on the external surfaces of an a/c such that all control surfaces + the actual rotation of the engines - and views of the sky all around, for that matter, can be seen as required on a monitor in the cockpit?
I think that on some airlines they show a live view of the sky foward of the a/c (is that true?), so I'm sure it's possible, just never heard it mentioned and often wondered why.