Things really got serious in 2015, with the completion of the Big Steel Battalion Box – the battlemech cockpit of your dreams. Coaching the player is a key part of BSBB gameplay, with a manual ...
There’s a Flight Data Recorder (FDR), charged with recording aircraft telemetry, and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), designed to record what’s going on in the cabin. It sounds straightforward ...
While pilots can leave the cockpit midflight to use the lavatory, international aviation protocols mandate that two pilots be present on the flight deck at all times, Simple Flying reported.
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Sensors that detect who is sitting where and what the family pet is up to, augmented reality overlays on displays, video gaming synced with a vehicle’s movement — the automobile cabin has ...
The incident took place on a 10-hour Sri Lankan Airlines flight in which the female First Officer took a toilet break and reportedly did not arrange for her substitute in the cockpit - in line ...
If you have ever driven or ridden in the front passenger seat of a current Audi car, chances are you may have seen a Virtual Cockpit display. The Virtual Cockpit is not some sort of phantom car ...
Two NATO fighter jet pilots recently compared notes after going head-to-head in a "dogfight" in the skies above Germany. In a video shared by the US Department of Defense late last month, German ...
A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Kansas Saturday evening after "a fire-like smoke" was detected in the cockpit, ...
Pilots are trained for lots of scenarios, but certainly not for dealing with snakes in the cockpit he said, telling the BBC that panicking would have just made the situation worse. The plane made ...
The Cockpit is ancient, dating back to the 18th century. But pub yore puts this as the site of Shakespeare's Blackfriars house, two centuries before that. The name comes from the age-old pastime ...