Oceanic

You don't like the look of the splash guard on the cupholders?

Why would there be cups anywhere near the FMC's?

can they be input devices? mouse-like things?

This looks fantastic!

So now I've only got a couple of questions:

Where do I plug my Ipod in for a couple of rockin tunes out over the pond.

Can we play Quake 4 against the other traffic in the NAT's routes?

How long will it be before a hacker pilot plasters porn over the PND???:}

Figure that as an ILS centre line goal!!! The rest I leave to your imagination :uhoh:

As the old addage goes, LHS for the pilot, RHS for the dog. The dog stops the pilot touching things and :mad: it up and the pilot is kept busy feeding the dog.
:E

In my opinion they're arm rests, albeit not very comfortable looking arm rests :P

Whats more worrying to me is they appear to have forgotten to put the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys on the captain's dinner table :confused:

I mean how else are they going to reboot the game when it blue screens just as the FO was about to capture the flag from the captain's team!! :}

On a related note does this mean that as a software developer I have now found myself a fast track into the cockpit of a brand new A380 :ok:

Alright alright I'll stop wasting everyone's time :D

splatt

10 points :ok:

The Falcon 7X has these as well.

What happens if you are both left/right handed?

Can you unplug the stick and move it over or do you bring your own?

What's new?

The Jeppesen Electronic Flight Bag, used in (a.o.) the Boeing 777 uses both Windows and Linux:

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aer...EFB_story.html

This article was from 2003.

Oh the pic makes me laugh. Airbus pilots keep telling me how good the table is. Now you can't put your dinner on it!!!!

Priceless.

They still can.
The keyboard (probably liquid proof by the look of it) has a cover that folds over the top of it and makes it flush with the rest of the tray, you know... ;)

I had a look onboard on Saturday... those lumps near the CDUs are the input devices... like a mouse. Yep, it is windows based! Shocking!!!! Anyone notice that there are only 2 T/R levers?

It's interesting to compare the A380 structures to a Boeing. so mayy plastic panels and brackets. Composite beams, etc. Lets hope they hold together!

For me this still looks like 4 T/R levers...

I think I am more worried about the 14 year old kid or suicidal terrorist that will hack the flight control system in flight and crash the system, literally.

Imagine the effect of changing the error correction on location during an ETOPS portion of flight so the plane and you think you are headed towards your destination when really you are moving further and further over the pond.

I might be reaching, but I hope someone has thought of that. There is nothing secure about any computer network. If man can make it man can break it. Hollywood spent 100 Million on securing their DVDs so they could not be copied and it took that 14 year old in Denmark about a week to crack it.

:uhoh:

In any photos of the A380 I have seen only engines 2 and 3 are in reverse on landing. I think the VC-10 had a similar arrangement. It does look like a beautiful office. The big displays and the roominess seem lovely. Having been there BHMvictim, was it nice?

posted 14th November 2005 15:36 by 747FOCAL


"I think I am more worried about the 14 year old kid or suicidal terrorist that will hack the flight control system in flight and crash the system, literally. "

if someone made it via the cockpit to your E+E compartement, you definetely should be worried. You seem to my like my dad, who is afraid of computers and is not even using bank tellers...


"Imagine the effect of changing the error correction on location during an ETOPS portion of flight so the plane and you think you are headed towards your destination when really you are moving further and further over the pond."

hehhh, they got GPS nowadays on modern aircraft.
In this case you get the message NAV/FM GPS Position Disagree. Fly with your GPS or mixed IR Position. That is kidsstuff.


I might be reaching, but I hope someone has thought of that. There is nothing secure about any computer network. If man can make it man can break it. Hollywood spent 100 Million on securing their DVDs so they could not be copied and it took that 14 year old in Denmark about a week to crack it.

Don´t worry, the Boeing developted FLYNET system is not connected to the FM or any other component vital for flying. Different unconnected wiring !

Hope you will make it once into a modern aircraft. ;)

Not to wander of to a different subject here....butttah, ETOPS on a 4-engined 380?

-IB-

Quite right, however that is why there are only two thrust leavers, so you can TRANSMUTE to an ETOPS aircraft and save fuel.

Oceanic, I thought those bulbous bits are to hold your ring donut.

Do the airlines get to choose the interior colour of the cockpit? I am sure that Airbus will have been pestered by now by Linda -smegging Barker and DFS to colour code and feng shui the heavier than air flying machine and the pilot interface.

I think Lily of the Valley would look great, with a Serengeti Sunrise hue to the instruments.

calming pale lavender is my bet. Soothe the worries of having to reboot Windows at FL360

"Ctrl.......and Alt.......erm........Win Key?....no.....Delete!....GOTCHA!"

AT

New long distance flight ruling:

EFOPS

:p

so wheres the compass?