Thunderbird 1 Nosecam

[Goldie]

Why cant we have a birdseye view of take off and landings on our seat back monitors, sure would scare the Sh*t out of some?

[cossack]

I read somewhere else on pprune that Airtours A330s have similar.

Didn't American have them until their DC10 crash @ ORD when the engine fell off?

RT OK, but live video? "Expect late landing clearance...GO AROUND!!!"

Not a pleasant thought...

[Bluenose]

Hi everyone,

I believe that EK have this on many of their aircraft (not just the A330 I think), and is available from gate-gate. Not too sure how they get round this from the more security minded countries (especially in the Middle East). I think the camera is mouted somewhere just in front of the central undercarriage. Any EK drivers care to comment?

All the best,

Bluenose

[Lawyerboy]

EK have this on their 777s and highly entertaining it is. Don't know where it's mounted but it gives you live forward and downward facing video.

[Dan Winterland]

Gulf air have it on their 330s.

[MISAP]

Yeah, but what if you sit there, ENG 1 on fire, trying to make an NDB approach to a small airport at marginal weather with limited NAV AIDS, would you remember to turn the TV off not to make every passanger seat brown???

[Lawyerboy]

If only the quality were good enough to actually cause anyone any concern. As it happens, you can't really see a great deal once airborne and what you see of the ground during the descent I suspect wouldn't look any different if it were a normal landing or an emergency one.

[Goldie]

except in the later LB I suspect that the appearance of the ground seems quicker?