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What are the switches inside a cockpit?
Aircraft are very complex machines and for the sake of safety they are designed with a huge amount of redundancy, therefore they have a wealth of controls inside the cockpit. Aircraft generally have about a half dozen different types of rad... Read More »
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What are the cockpit instruments inside an helicopter?
Helicopter pilots and airplane pilots need to know the same basic things to fly and navigate their aircraft. Most of the instruments in helicopters and airplanes are common between them. Both helicopters and airplanes need to know their air... Read More »
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How loud is a helicopter inside the cockpit?
I've only ever flown in a Bell 47 with no doors. LOUD does not begin to describe the noise. You have a basically unmuffled piston engine directly behind your seat plus all the drive transmission noise. And then there is the sound of the rot... Read More »
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The Cockpit in Leeds has a capacity of 500. The stage is 24ft wide, 13ft deep, 4ft high, 8ft from 1st lighting rig. Looks dark with multicoloured lights
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Many laws were changed *after* 9/11. They used to open pretty regularly. Just a hypothetical scenario, let's say a passenger has a gun and says "Open the door, or we start shooting passengers." I'll be lots of people would open that door, h...
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75dB - to 90dB. See http://aeromedical.org/Articles/NIHL.htm… Scroll about half-way down to see some tables of decibel levels for various aircraft.
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Many pilots don't know the physiological reasons behind using red light, and so they may use other colors without realizing how seriously it degrades their night vision. Green is just about the worst choice for cockpit illumination if a pil...
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Alabama: A-12 #06930 - On display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL. A-12 #06937 - On display at the Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL. A-12 #06938 - On display at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, AL...
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The inaccessible cockpit concept is bandied about now and then. For several reasons it's a bad idea. To begin with, for reasons I've discussed a number of times, I beg to differ that a terrorist in 2006 would consider a hijacking. The Sept....
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Source: http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/09/29/askthepilot203/
The Osella had a very big driver's compartment. I am rather small, it was like wearing a pair of shoes about 4 sizes too big. The car was about 3 years old and the engines were down on power compared to the competition. Still, the car would...
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