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    Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit

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    Image of archpope archpope
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    I thought the most disturbing thing was at 2:20, where you can see what looks like an old-fashioned window crank. I do hope you can't so easily open the window on a pressurized aircraft.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/02/09

    @archpope: Maybe it's like the old escape hatches on the Gemini capsules that opened in, and during the fire, stopped them from being opened due to the pressure difference.
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    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    Here we go. Found video of the cockpit crew in action during a normal takeoff!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/02/09

    @31y/oToday_GitEmSteveDave: i think i found the transcript from the black box for that flight.


    Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
    Captain Oveur: Roger!
    Roger Murdock: Huh?
    Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
    Captain Oveur: Roger!
    Roger Murdock: Huh?
    Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
    Captain Oveur: What?
    Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
    Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
    Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
    Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
    Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
    Tower voice: Over.
    Captain Oveur: Roger.
    Roger Murdock: Huh?
    Tower voice: Roger, over!
    Roger Murdock: What?
    Captain Oveur: Huh?
    Victor Basta: Who?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/02/09

    @Happy BDay GitEm_Nick: OK, give me Hamm on line five, and hold the Mayo.
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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    06/02/09

    @31y/oToday_GitEmSteveDave: looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
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    06/02/09

    @lpranal: Luckily I have a prescription for amphetamines. Never have to quit!
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    Image of Geraldo Geraldo
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    It's not as complicated as it first appears. Most controls and instruments are grouped logically. Radio / Nav is one grouping, Engine controls, Engine temperatures and pressures, environmental control, circuit breakers. There are also some variations in US, western European, etc.


    Me, I'm a little more worried about how many hours the average 'don't-fly-that-much' private pilot has (who is buzzing above me), esp. emergency flight procedures. Ditto for civil airline pilots and emergency procedures though. Most western military flight programs will beat the crap out of the pilots as far as emergency procedures since military aircraft are more often flown at the edge of their envelopes. I'm not so sure civilian procedures are as rigorous...

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    06/02/09

    @Geraldo: Well, in an emergency, I'll just rely on the tower to talk the Stewardess/Military Analyst/President/70's Movie Star through what needs to be done. Hasn't failed yet! ;)
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    the scary thing is that 22 year-olds who spent their college years boozing get to fly these.
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    Image of four12 four12
    06/02/09

    @aerospaceman: Huh?


    By the time you get anywhere *near* the cockpit of a large passenger aircraft, you have a thousand hours of flight time logged. Captains of major carrier/long haul flights regularly have 6,000 to 8,000 hours of flight time to make it to the left seat.


    The smaller, regional airlines... not so much sometimes.

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    06/02/09

    @aerospaceman: Even scarier, when they were younger, all pilots were peeing and pooping in their pants, and couldn't control themselves!
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    06/02/09

    @four12: This isn't the 90's anymore. Honestly those numbers have come way down as has the pay. Some of the new pilots are making under $40k a year so what kind of pilots do you think they are getting?


    It used to be the big carriers would pick up guys out of the service with thousands of hours under their belts, but now who in the hell wants to leave the service to fly a bus for $40k... No thanks

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/02/09

    @UnderLoK: While that might be true, it does not imply that current pilots are not competent enough to fly large planes safely. As this article mentions, the number of plane accidents per flight hours is actually decreasing. It seems to me that flight safety is more dependent on airplane maintenance and operational procedures rather than the skill of pilots, who are really only required to follow an exact set of actions for each flight.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    Does anyone know if it's true that the 9/11 terrorists(Yes, it happened) had large posters of the planes cockpits hanging on their wall they would sit in front of and mime flying? B/c then all they would need with this is those video glasses....
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/02/09

    @31y/oToday_GitEmSteveDave: HAPPY FRIGGIN' BIRTHDAY.


    and i have no idea.

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    06/02/09

    @grumble grumble_Nick: @TrollSlayer: Thank you, thank you. It's also my 2nd Gawker Anniversary.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/02/09

    @31y/oToday_GitEmSteveDave: Based on your picture, it looks like you are dressed for the occasion.
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    Image of RedwoodFlyer RedwoodFlyer
    06/02/09

    @31y/oToday_GitEmSteveDave: I don't know but I hope my brown skin, airport security clearance, and 8' tall 777 cockpit poster don't set off any flags...


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    06/02/09

    @RedwoodFlyer: Just remember not to drink hot tea and wrap a cool towel around your head while going through security.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    I like the way the radio/CD dial is nicely situated so you can jump to another song without taking your eyes off the sky.
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    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    I bet over half of those controls are safety or redundant features that the pilot rarely has to use.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/02/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: I suspect they are all cigarette lighters.


    Bad jokes aside, It is horrible news about the loss of that flight. The family and friends are in my prayers.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/02/09

    In reply to Every Single Knob and Button In an Airbus A330 Cockpit
    way to make those logitech flight controllers look like fisher price toys.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/02/09

    @grumble grumble_Nick: There's a reason why logitech flight controllers are only installed on commuter jets rather than large commercial airliners.
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    06/02/09

    @grumble grumble_Nick: Of course. Airplane controls need to last for 30 years or so.
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    Image of CarterBroadway CarterBroadway
    05/18/09

    In reply to Sony's New Entry Level DSLRs Officially Announced, Again
    Memory stick? Seriously? Hasn't Sony learned their lesson yet?
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05/18/09

    @CarterBroadway:

    SDHC too.

    Personally I have one SD card in a laptop, and various Memory Stick Pro Duos (32MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 8GB) for my PSP that I now mostly use for my Sony point & shoot, so it's worked out well for me... what would be dumb is if they forced it to take a new kind of mem stick.
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    Image of Theimbellis Theimbellis
    05/03/09

    In reply to Rumor: Sony UK Support Page Reveals 'Alpha 330' DSLR Line, Lenses
    Oh, god, what is it with everybody chasing after rumors?
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    05/03/09

    @Theimbellis: Probably because a good part of what this site is, is design concepts and rumors. Maybe you should seek out another site if it bugs you so much.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/03/09

    @Theimbellis: It's not that we chase after the rumors, Theimbellis, it's just that they plop themselves down in front of us so conveniently.


    Take, for instance, that rumor currently circulating involving you, the plumber and the donkey. Now, I didn't go looking for it, didn't really even want to know about it--I mean, fergawdzsake, with the pipe wrench?--but there it is, not to be ignored.

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