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Old 12th Apr 2011, 18:18
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Does anybody know whether the A380 crew has visibility (via video camera) of their wing tips?

With a wing span of 261 feet it must be a fairly daunting task manoeuvring the aircraft without some sort of visual perspective reference wing clearances.
It does have a camera system called ETACS, unfortunately the camera in the tail doesn't give a view of the wingtips. It only shows the wings up to just inboard of each outboard engine (it has markers on screen to show where the wing gear is so the crew can more easily judge on tight turns).

The smaller view on the upper part of the screen just shows the nose gear from a belly mounted camera.
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