Cockpit Wish List

[Cougar]

A HUD. Not like a 737 NG where the pilot can use it in low viz situations, i mean a HUD used as the Primary Flight Display. Once you go there, you will never go back.

[halas]

The 777 needs two mods in the office.

1. Fold to the side control column, perhaps like an old Baron or Aerocommander.

2. Lie-flat seats for a better snooze position.

halas

[Gin Slinger]

737 Classic & NG

1) Comfier seats. My £500 car has better seats. After 4 sectors one loses all feeling in the derrière.

2) Better sun visors. Rather than a ineffectual tint, why not a fine fabric mesh like those used in car sunblinds?

[Red Mud]

My sincere thanks to all who responded to this line. I will use a lot of what you recommended and hope to put together a capable cockpit within financial sensibility (reality butting in again). I really liked the free-for-all wish list approach on some of the responses and think that there is a great cockpit like that coming down the pipe some day. As for my own preferences I like the addressable above/below TCAS, a night visor for cockpit glare, the newer Iridium network phones over Satcom and a good place on the side console for a notepad and coffee cup. HGS is great but perhaps one that incorporates EVS is better.
Thanks again.

[Whippersnapper]

A wine rack for the duty free?

Depending on ac type, ANR headsets could be a good thing (73's a noisy bugger).

[L337]

Curtains: To keep the sun from drilling a hole through the back of your head.

Very large dustbin: To put soggy apple cores, half eaten sandwiches, tins of coke, and old ACARs messages into.

No Paper: When the all up weight of the paper exceeds the all up weight of the aeroplane, it will stop. Put paper in dustbin.

Double Bed: Just for me. You can never sleep too much on an aeroplane.

Dancing Girls: Yes please. Good for long night flights. (see double bed)

Free Sat Phone: Gotta talk to someone, once pensions, bidline, and the state of the FOs portfolio has been discussed to death.

DVD Player:

Networked PCs with fast internet connection: For some heavy l337 uber d00dz PvP action. "4ll y0ur b4s3 4r3 b3l0ng t0 us"

Oh Yes.

L337

[Trislander]

I agree, a completely paperless cockpit - one of those Jeppesen fan-dangled gadgets with all the approach plates and charts stored in it which you can access at the touch of a button. Looked at one at Farny last week, v. impressive.

Aside from that, a beer fridge.

Tri