I thought this was covered by the load case:

... excessive external load on nacelle:- engine falls off, wing left intact

.... info on the relative velocities would be good ....
 

.... was the tunnel out or did the A380 not see ?

Back in service ...
 

.... money

But it could be fitted to new aircraft fairly easily I'd have thought?


And it's merely a further resource to use... once lined up for the gate, a quick check that there's nothing significant in the way (i.e. vehicle or airbridge) and then head back outside.

Could even have the guidance lines on like some reversing cameras on cars, so you can see the area that needs to be clear to safely proceed

Pretty much anything that goes on an aircraft you can add a few zeros to the cost. So your $100 wingtip video camera would likely be north of $10k before it was certified. Plus it's unnecessary weight, and if you're going to feed it to the PFD, it'll need to be fully protected for HIRF/Lightning - which also adds cost and weight - often a lot.
Not quite the same as a video camera - FADECs are Level A flight critical hardware. But the electronics in a FADEC box are considerably less sophisticated than the typical laptop that you can pick up for less than $1,000. By the time they are qualified for the aircraft environment, the LRU cost for a FADEC is in the $250k - $500k range.:=

Time to confess... how many of you have used the reflection off the terminal glass walls to stop 'exactly ' on the bar!


Anil

Guilty, as charged. :O

LLama, not a bad idea in principle, having the full set of screens displace taxi cameras, but the problem is that if a system that overrides normal displays malfunctions in flight, it's really going to spoil the day; less risk from a lack of taxi cameras on the ground than having to fly on standby instruments alone mid Pacific until landing...

Interesting that apparently that the incident is not being discussed within Big Airways. The plebs are suggesting that it perhaps could it have been a Management pilot at the controls during taxi in?

Erm it's being discussed plenty at BA. And given there wasn't a management pilot on board your second comment is an outright falsehood.

Maybe check your contacts!

See my earlier about Miami having a nose wheel focussed mirror.
( I parallel park my car using shop window "mirrors" - too.)

No need for expensive onboard certificated cameras and screens if they are instead screwed to the terminal wall - large advertising hoarding-sized screens with feeds from several ground-based cameras. Cheap as chips and crying out for sponsorship.

:ooh: That'll be fine until they switch to the adverts at the wrong time......

I can just imagine it...a couple of feet (metres) to go when: " And now, just time for a word from our sponsors, "That'll Buff Out Nicely" radome dent filler"................." :sad:

What would be really useful is a “God’s eye” view of the whole proceedings displayed in the cockpit.

You can spec that option on quite a few cars now. Here’s a BMW one:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-conten...nd-view-X5.jpg

A drone could pop out of a special compartment in the upper fuselage after landing and hover just above as you taxy in, relaying the bird's eye view. You read it here first. If anyone does it, I'll take the royalties... :hmm: