Like, I’m on a plane. I don’t want to watch Toy Story when I can do that at home, I want to see what the pilots see. And that way every seat has technically a window to look out of.
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.
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!
Is it different to see a launch live on TV in a plane vs. seeing a launch live on TV at home?
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.
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 😄.
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.
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.
Emirates does this, at least on theor A380s.
And as someone said, apart from takeoff and landing, it’s pretty boring.
I love to have a window seat and just can’t take my eyes off the landscape below. It’s so amazing to see the plan of farms and cities, the aquaducts and rivers, the crinkled mountains deserts and coastline. Sometimes you can see the shadow of your own plane trace along the ground. Try to guess which lake this is. I guess a night flight is boring.
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.
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Add a delay and have it cut off if there’s an emergency.
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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.
