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Air Eyes
Visual access to airplane exterior | |
In so many of the air accidents the people who are flying the
plane have no idea what is wrong. They see gauges and
numeric readouts but a simple view of the vertical stabilizer
would tell them volumes about the difficulty they are in and
the quickest way to deal with it.
It seems so strange
that with the advent of cheap digital
pinhole cameras that they would not be studded all over the
exterior of the aircraft. With most commercial jets using flat
screens in the cockpit it couldn't be that hard to provide and
select a signal to display on the Flight Engineer's console that is
a detailed, hi-res view of a control surface, an engine or a
general view of the aft end.
Sometimes a pilot can't tell if there's a fuel leak, if something
is on fire, or if a piece of the aircraft has gone missing. Is the
landing gear down or is it a bad indicator on the console?
Punch up that camera and know right away.
Wired or wireless?
Baked by Nissan Pathfinder
https://www.youtube...watch?v=pRJhWQb737g
Scalable for 747, shirley?! [Sgt Teacup, May 08 2023]
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"Would you like a business, economy or "look look we're all gonna die" ticket ? |
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Different spectral frequencies might be good for different weather conditions. An augment of transponder plots might also be a good idea. |
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[Right. Smartphone access to the live video feed is $12.99.] I
think the sensitivity of the CCD could definitely give IR and
other "invisible" wavelength pics to determine icing, fuel
leaks, pitot trouble, etc. |
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The skin of an airplane is a stressed structural member.
Putting more holes in it is generally a bad idea. |
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Adding cameras to interesting bits here and there might be
beneficial where other sensors don't suffice. But usually
things like fuel pressure can be detected otherwise. |
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Don't pilots use existing visual cues to tell if parts are
missing? For instance, if the same piece of scenery
keeps coming around, it's likely that a wing has come
off. If the horizon is waggling up and down, the
horizontal stabilizers have come off. If you descend
below 0ft AGL without the usual bump, it's probable
that the undercarriage is still raised. Etc. |
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//the usual bump// wouldn't that count as a tactile, rather than a visual, cue? |
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On light aircraft, visual cues for the pilot-in-'command' (?) are essential, as any audible warnings are invariably drowned out by the screaming from the occupant of the right-hand seat. |
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The exception is engine failure; if the rattle of beads and the chanting of "Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for us ..." (or in other cases, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" accompanied by the sound of squashing eyeballs) becomes audible - along with the whisper of airflow over the fuselage - this typically indicates that all may not be as desired with the propulsion systems. |
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// four cameras, two pointing to the pointy end, two the other way, one of each on the port side and the other side. // |
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So, two plus two plus one plus one equals four ... fine. |
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well, you could have cheap telepresence. |
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It might waste pilot's attention to do visuals of the plane rather than IFR (instrument based flying), the thing is that you could have people at call centers have these really dull images of normal aircraft, flying normally, as one of their open windows while doing telephone calls. |
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" ... and if you subscribe for a whole year, you'll get twenty-five percent off next year's subSAAAAAAAAA! SHIT ! PULL UP ! PULL UP ! GO AROUND ! GEAR UP, FLAPS UP, FULL EMERGENCY POWER ! C'MON, CLIMB, DAMN YOU ! " |
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I would pay a full $2 more for a seat in a high visibility blister underneath the plane. |
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