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Landing using just instruments predates 'glass cockpits' by several decades. I remember as a teenager being on a 707 flight deck during training
Posted on Apr 10, 2017
There are many proposed airliner designs that intend doing away with windows for the passengers entirely and replacing them with screens. One even suggest just making the whole top half of the cabin into one huge LCD screen so it feels like you are flying in an open-top bus :-) The reason is that windows are a weakness in the fuselage; all the stresses of pressurising the fuselage act at the windows. This is why you still have your ears pop; they cannot maintain full ground level pressure at altitude.
Landing using just instruments predates 'glass cockpits' by several decades. I remember as a teenager being on a 707 flight deck during training when the whole screen was blocked during approach to test the pilot could still maintain the correct angle and speed on instruments alone (though they did not expect him to actually land blind without ILS) And of course even light aircraft pilots can train in Instrument Flying for flying inclouds, night etc. The term 'Glass Cockpit' refers more to the use of LCD displays instead of mechanical gauges. It is worth noting that even in a 'glass cockpit' they still use dials as well as numbers. When a pilot needs to scan dozens of readings in half a second then reading numbers does not work very well. The pilots prefer to see that things like temperatures and pressures and voltage levels etc are in a dial format so they can see that the needles are in the correct place with the briefest of glances. If one needle is out of place amongst 6 small dials it is glaringly obvious but one number being different from the 5 around it is hard to see.
Posted on Mar 07, 2017
Modern Jet airliners already have electronic screens that depict the ground, the sky, maps, terrain and many more things, They are known as "Glass Cockpit" aircraft. These aircraft can land in Zero visibility fully automatically without the pilots having to see out of the window at all, just viewing the screens. The problems are in training of the flight crews. Full automated approaches and landings are far more exacting on the flight crew than a normal visual landing and crews have to be specially trained and certified to do them. The thought that on an automatic landing the pilots just sit there and do nothing is far from reality. The procedure is one of intense concentration and if the aircraft so much a twitches the pilots will abandon the approach, they have to watch everything. Training flight crews is a very expensive business and an international operator would have to have about nine crews for just one aircraft. Training those crews to operate with just view screens would blow the training budget out the bank. No matter how cleaver these modern jets are the fastest computer on board is still the one between the pilots ears and using all his senses and especially sight through a window will be with us for some time.
Posted on Mar 06, 2017
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