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Flying in the BA 777 COCKPIT at Heathrow

Cockpit design fail? Too much information methinks.
For discussion. Do you show EVERYTHING being monitored in green, or just the exceptions in red?

If you look closely at fighter jet cockpits, they are amazingly simple.

Attitude, altitude, bearing, airspeed. Right in the middle.

Surrounding that are radar, radio, weapons and basic systems stuff.

To me, this seems like over the top. If the system is clever enough to show the engine #2 oil pressure as nominal, it should be clever enough to hide that until it becomes out of nominal.

If that happens, you show the red light, and then the relevant supporting system status. And then more by choice.

What do I know? I'm not a pilot or an aircraft designer.
Could be something much deeper going on here, like reminding the pilot that he has a job, and giving him/her stuff to appear to be watching over.

Interesting design dynamics perhaps.

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Added: Feb-7-2012 Occurred On: Feb-7-2012
By: ommadawn
In: Other Entertainment
Tags: Flying, BA 777, COCKPIT, Heathrow, simulator
Location: United Kingdom (UK/GB) (load item map)
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  • Its a flight simulator.

    Posted Feb-7-2012 By 
    quicksilver462 (151.48)  

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  • I sure as hell hope I'm never in a vehicle that was designed by the OP. I'd rather my pilots have far more shit in front of them and not need it then to need it and not have it.

    Posted Feb-7-2012 By 
    NateyG2 (242.70)

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  • More people to carry, more responsibility, more instruments, more systems, just cannot be displayed in only one monitor using only soft keys. Try to compare a Hummer with a cruise ship. In a fighter, the cockpit doesn´t have much room for instruments and monitoring LCDs.

    Posted Feb-7-2012 By 
    sabugo (116.92)  

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  • They have the stuff laid out so the pilots know where to look for a parameter.

    They have so many information lights because when something goes wrong you need to see immediately relevant information in a group.

    Going red and sounding an alarm alerts the pilot where to look.

    Pure glass cockpits with a single display may concentrate information but means they have to do something to see any other parameters. This slows them down.

    Posted Feb-7-2012 By 
    DEADBEEF (4238.56)  

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    • @DEADBEEF

      Hmm.. so less physical interaction/thinking to be done, plus some redundancy if the display packs up?

      Posted Feb-8-2012 By 
      ommadawn (3234.64)

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    • @ommadawn

      Pretty much. It's a man machine interface issue.

      I'm not going to get into the airbus/boeing slagging match, but in my limited recall I've heard of a number of accidents in Airbus where the man-machine interface failed in some way.

      glide-slope settings (strassbourg)
      failure to detect a stall - AF-447
      CFIT - Air India flight 605
      CFIT - Gulf Air Flight 072
      Armavia Airlines A320 - loss of situational awareness

      The list goes on.

      Personally I really enjoy flying in big airbus

      Posted Feb-8-2012 By 
      DEADBEEF (4238.56)  

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  • I love how you offer your totally uniformed commentary about systems that have been developed over decades by experts.

    Posted Feb-8-2012 By 
    Texan_in_China (103.90)  

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  • Funny how some can watch this without really seeing it, it is as others have pointed out film of a commercial flight simulator you can hear him talking about setting the daylight levels at the start.

    Posted Feb-8-2012 By 
    pinkskin (23.58)

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