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happyhippo ,

Emirates does this, at least on theor A380s.

And as someone said, apart from takeoff and landing, it’s pretty boring.

Underwaterbob ,

They did on one flight I was on. You could choose from a number of different cameras around the plane and watch the view. Short of take-off and landing, it was pretty dull.

scarabic ,

I landed in Orlando recently and the captain said “hey everyone look out the left side and you’ll see a rocket launch.”

I was on the right side. With my kid. It would have been amazing to be able to flip on the TV and see!

TauZero ,

Is it different to see a launch live on TV in a plane vs. seeing a launch live on TV at home?

scarabic ,

Yes. Just like seeing lightning with your own eyes is different than seeing a GIF of it on the internet.

A TV broadcast of a rocket launch is better in some ways - cameras are well positioned to show you more, etc. but there is something about seeing a thing with your own eyes.

TauZero ,

I was just pointing out the absurdity of describing seeing something on TV in a plane, recorded with a camera on the plane, as seeing it with your own eyes, without even realizing it 😄.

scarabic ,

Oh I see, the last thing I said about turning on the TV. Well you’re right that wouldn’t be the same but part of the problem was that we didn’t really know what we were missing. My kid got all stirred up over the fact that he couldn’t see the rocket. TV would have been something.

A lot of thing you can see from a plane have this problem of only being on one side so yeah the TV would just be a slight concession to folks on the wrong side.

profdc9 ,

They should have the camera looking out the cockpit window slowly point downwards toward the ground as the camera is flying along.

scarabic ,

Agree. Straight down might be best. I want to see the world as we pass over.

veniasilente ,

What’s even the point of having a view from the cockpit if I can’t drive the plane? Forget the crappy movies and games, if you truly want me to not be bored just stream to me control over the flight console.

doomer ,

twitch plays pokemon, airliner edition

balance_sheet ,

Don’t you guys have phones? /s

x4740N ,
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Makes me miss the trains that had on board entertainment that allowed you to steam a camera feed from the front of the train

dsmk ,

Some planes and carriers have this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzAcWff7nU

It costs money though, so you usually only see them on more premium carriers and larger planes.

I’m working from memory here, but I think there was an instance where there was a crash or some incident where people could see it happening on the cameras though… and it’s not ideal having everyone in the plane panicking because they’re going to die.

Dalinar ,

Add a delay and have it cut off if there’s an emergency.

dsmk ,

How long of a delay (too long and people complain) and how to cut if off without having to add another line to the pilot’s checklists during troubleshooting?

SomeRandomWords ,

Yup, there was a very well known case covered on an early episode of Mayday / Air Crash Investigation (like season 1) about this. A lot of people got to watch the same terrifying view as the pilots as their plane plummeted from the sky.

JimmyDean ,

One of the coolest experiences of my life was flying back to Portland from Chicago at night. Somewhere along the way, I looked out the window and off in the distance I noticed a lightning storm over a town. It was surreal how much lower the storm was than we were flying, and watching the lightning bolts branch out from the clouds to spread all over the place was just incredible.

I don’t fly often, so maybe that’s more common than I realize, but I thought it was pretty awesome.

Anticorp ,

Most people don’t care. I seem to be the only passenger on the entire flight that looks out the window. Idk why people are so indifferent to the amazing things in their lives, but they are.

Rolive ,

I once saw the northern lights from the airplane window. We flew from Amsterdam to Seoul and back then the route went over Russia. We went far enough north that a faint green glow was visible in the distance.

CyprianSceptre ,

I remember international flights that had several outside cameras, one looking slightly down and forward was the best by far, although most of the flight it was just clouds and during landing that one turned to face forward so you couldn’t see the runway. Haven’t seen them recently though.

helmet91 ,

Emirates has such cameras, one looking downwards and one mounted somewhere in front of the rudder, looking forward. Maybe there’s a third camera as well, I don’t remember. I flew in 2019 last time.

HortiEastwood ,

I flew air France last month and they have them. I loved it. That was my default screen while I was watching downloaded Netflix shows on my phone.

FiftyShadesOfLatte ,

Air France offers this feature at least on international flights.

Natal ,

Probably depends on the plane somewhat. I flew Air-France to go to Mexico and didn’t have that on their a380

ferralcat ,

I think basically every international flight has this, at least ones that are over the 4 or 5 hour mark and have screens for customers.

HughJanus ,

I mean that sounds cool but that would get boring pretty quickly.

Definitely would be cool on takeoff and landing.

No_Eponym ,
@No_Eponym@lemmy.ca avatar

Unless it suddenly isn’t boring.

Another jet zooms right beneath/above you.

Pilot banks to avoid birds and hit a few.

Suddenly the feed turns off and pilots come on the PA and ask folks to buckle up.

Zolidus ,

Why not in addition to as opposed to instead of?

HakFoo ,

Sometimes there’s a map, but I wish it had landmarks. Is that cluster of lights in the distance Chicago or Salt Lake? Sorry, the map only shows the origin and destination cities.

HeapOfDogs ,

I was on an international flight recently and the map was great. It had an sorts of zoom and different visualizations with landmarks. Really good. Only downside was realizing we were passing something cool and I couldn’t see it because no window.

fsniper ,

Done airlines give you outside views, but shoot with potatoes. So it's better not having that. Also there is nothing to see at most of the cruise height.

hellishharlot ,

Yeah except the cloud layers. For some that’s beautiful and it makes an even better backdrop for reading

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