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Using a series of cockpit videos, my colleagues and I are happy to explain how things work, whether it’s the autopilot or just. It’s a fascinating place to work and I get a lot of questions about it, at birthday parties or via social media.

Or, since this process is called 'alignment', you might think of them as grabbing a moment of Zen, before they're ready to help guide us across the heavens. Allow me to show you my workplacethe cockpit at 40,000 feet. You could say that they're using this quiet time to quite literally get their bearings. One is gravity, and the other is the earth's rotation.

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Boeing 747-400F - Full multi-cam HD film - Famous Captain Giovanni flying the Queen. Technically, they're using this stillness to sense two important things. Below please find a comprehensive list of all our cockpit films. Before flight, they require some time (typically a few minutes) at the gate when the aircraft is completely still. There's something else remarkable about inertial systems. And they can sense gravity, which tell us which way is up, for example-particularly useful when flying in cloud. Boeing 747 Cockpit landing at Mexico City AS Entertainment. Boeing 747 Crosswind Landing Cockpit View. The old Hong Kong airport was dangerously close to the highrise areas of the city, as this. 747 Cockpit Video Landing Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. It is often seen in pictures showing planes looking incredibly close to sunbathers. digital cockpit management system, Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) Cockpit and advanced. Maarten is the airport with the beach at the end of the runway. Boeing 747-400F Rainy Landing in Lusaka, Zambia - Cockpit View w/ ATC. There are currently ten Boeing 747s listed for sale. They can help us distinguish our own speed and direction from those of the wind that carries us. Cockpit view - Boeing 747-400F Landing Amsterdam Schiphol. Modern inertial systems have a variety of important functions in addition to navigation. Some of this technology was developed in part for the Apollo programme, and it was one of the most revolutionary technologies on board the Boeing 747-100 when it first took flight in 1969. Many of their functions are less obvious than the control column, a little more subtle than the landing gear, and they're not always easy for visitors to appreciate.īut each controls an utterly ingenious bit of technology or a carefully crafted aspect of what in the wider tech world is now called 'user experience'. I point out the throttles or thrust levers, the flaps (which effectively change the wing's size and shape, to allow us to fly more slowly) and the landing gear lever (as important a lever as there could possibly be).īut there are hundreds of other buttons, controls, switches and levers in a complex airliner like the Boeing 747. When I show you around the cockpit in that book, I focus mostly on the big-ticket items of obvious importance-the control wheel (for banking left or right) the control column (to quote a Father Ted-inspired flight instructor of mine: push forward on the column, and cows get bigger pull back, and cows get smaller).

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In a recent book, How to Land a Plane, I talk about how planes work-how they stay up in the sky, and how pilots control them.

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