Boeing 747 300 Cockpit

[Dhara Lyford]

The787, on the other hand, is sublime. Immersive cockpit details, perfect wing flex, beautiful undercarriage, stunning paintwork, light up windows at night and - would you believe it - (almost) correctly functioning flaperons!! Not to mention a realistic-feeling flight model which is both challenging but enjoyable and rewarding to fly.

A live 787 cockpit with those stunning screens would be the cherry on top of these gorgeous aircraft and I really hope the Developers take note of this suggestion to be implemented in the near future.

I agree, but I think the cockpit has to be made from scratch like the 737, just adding functional screens will not be good, the current cockpit model is far from looking like the real one, the aircraft on the outside is very good to receive the cockpit

Alpha1

- Imperfection Overlay is temporarily removed for tweaking.

- Added some more metal to the PBR.

- Improved readability of text and instrument panel.

- Adjusted some distorted colors.

Beta2

- Beginning to texture the cockpit walls and housings

- Minimize sizzle caused by overlapping UVs

- New carpeting in the cockpit. But dirty.

- I definitely worked on it, but the windshield aging effect is hard to see under normal conditions.

- The overall cockpit panel color was corrected to the average value of 720 cockpit photos.

- Adds SELCAL and REGISTRATION panels, and comes with a Photoshop file that users can easily modify.

and many other small things...

Beta2 REPACK

- Missing cockpit file.

Directions were a little confusing (senior) but I perservered. This adds to the realism of this outstanding aircraft, already boarding on payware quality. This plane gets better and better each time you turn around. Kudos to you and Senshee for this beautiful airliner!

Made a copy of the entire 720B folder, just in case. Then took all of the files included in this add-on and copied them into the 720B folder that I wanted to change, overwriting all files when queried. This resulted in one extra file that was not written over anything - the "Edit Objs" text file. Now things get interesting. Open the files indicated in the instructions on the download page - using "open with" and notepad, because if you merely open them, some sort of strange 3D editor opens up and fails to do anything constructive with them. You may have to turn off word wrap in notepad. Then it is merely a matter of carefully cutting and pasting from the edit objs text file in the add-on to the corresponding place in the 3d file, and then saving the 3d file as amended. When this is done, you have completed the instructions, as far as that goes. Fire up XP 12 (I did this for XP12 with the XP12 version of the 720, which has performed perfectly so far on my installation) and you will see what you will see. It is not clear in the instructions if this works in XP11, or for the straight 720 (non fan) version....

What I saw, as you can see here, is that with the exception of reflections off the glass instrument fronts at some angles, nothing much has changed. These are screen captures with the graphics set at monitor resolution using a 4K UHD tv as a monitor. I will try things out later with the graphics set in the sim directly to 4k to see if that makes any difference. I guess I was hoping for something a bit more toward PMDG! Mind you, this does not make things worse in any way, but it just doesn't seem to give much improvement except possibly the reflections off the instrument faces, which I usually find annoying! And this just in....one other thing - the digits to the left of the decimal point on the comm and nav tuning heads on the console are now mostly gone or unreadable....

This just in - the video below does a much better job than my screenshots of illustrating the differences, and I am upgrading my evaluation to 4 stars, with the caveat that I put forth in the comments section.

And these changes can be felt differently depending on the attitude of the plane and the time of day and weather, and it depends on the angle of view.

Check out this video for a direct comparison of the differences.

Yeah, I second that confusing part for the same reason. In fact I still haven't figured it out. Otherwise, what a beautiful addition this will be to a long awaited high quality legacy Boeing. Great job, kudos to both you and Senshee!

It's an emergency escape hatch. There are inertial reels in the cockpit ceiling adjacent to the hatch to allow the cockpit crew to exit the airplane. See this link for an account of their use escaping the aircraft during a hijacking.

It's also sometimes used in third world countries to send a guy out to clean the cockpit windshield. In Mumbai I once made the mistake of asking the windshield to be cleaned, thinking, of course, they'd do it with a cherry picker. Much to my surprise, bare feet appeared at the top of the windshield followed by this poor fellow who was maneuvering into place to clean the windshield. He had a rope tied around his waist, but had he fallen it would have been bad because the rope was anchored through the hatch, which meant he would have swung badly had he fallen.

The crew of Alaska Airlines 1282 was startled. The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board was annoyed. Headlines accused Boeing of keeping yet another secret from pilots. But the design that allows the cockpit door to open in case of a significant loss of pressure is not new, nor is it unique to the Max. It is common on nearly all airliners made by Boeing and Airbus.

Since the mid-2000s, plane makers have patented relatively simple devices that override the cockpit electronic door locks installed as a result of September 11th security concerns. The devices activate in response to an abrupt loss of pressure from the passenger cabin. This is what happened after a door plug came off at 16-thousand feet on the Alaska flight out of Portland, Oregon on January 5th.

In my book, The Crash Detectives, I spend quite a bit of time reporting on the various ways airplanes can depressurize. In the case of the cockpit door opening mechanism, what is important to understand is where in the fuselage the breach occurs. If it happens behind the cockpit as in Alaska and Qantas, air races out the hole including air in the cockpit. If the closed cockpit door restricts the flow of air, the pressure can stress the airplane structure.

When the breach happens in the cockpit, decompression panels on hinges swing open, allowing a path for the pressurized air in the cabin to to exit through the cockpit. The cockpit door remains shut. So to be clear, the unlocking of the door happens only to equalize the pressure when the opening is behind the cockpit.

Considering the security concerns following the commandeering and crashing of 4 airliners in the September 11th attacks, it is likely that the decision to keep the news from pilots came from security officials in the US and perhaps other nations as well.

Safety and security sometimes conflict and this appears to be a perfect example. The lack of information reduced the subject to the level of hangar talk. And here we are with even experienced pilots, former military pilots, ambidextrous pilots (proficient on both Airbus and Boeing) pilots certified to carry weapons on airplanes (FFDOs) and pilots with significant experience in safety who do not know about the door opening even on the airplanes they fly.

The 9/11 attacks created a need for impenetrable cockpits. For nearly 2 decades, flight decks have been protected by heavy, ballistic-resistant doors that lock and cannot be opened without a pilot releasing the door from the inside or entering a passcode from the outside. Except now you know that there is a third mechanism, physics.

Suddenly it becomes very clear how someone had access to the cockpit after the pilots of MH370 were lost due to hypoxia following explosive decompression as a consequence of lithium battery fire in cargo hold No 1!

Theoretically, yes. Practically, it would be difficult to create a rapid depressurization from the passenger cabin without the kinds of tools/weapons that are not allowed to be carried on board. In the case of someone bringing a weapon or explosive device to create a rupture in the cabin, then the situation would be sufficiently grave to make entering the cockpit somewhat moot.

Anyone else having this issue? Can hear the clock ticking and internal bumps and squeaking but as soon as I close the windows there is no more engine sound inside the cockpit. Finding it hard to believe that is normal. Bad download/install? Should I try again? Am I missing a setting? All other aircraft working as normal. Any ideas/suggesstions? Thanks in advance!

Flight 1182 was headed to Toyama airport in Japan but headed back to the Sapporo-New Chitose airport after the crack was found on the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, a spokesperson for the airline said on Saturday.

While the Alaska flight also landed safely with all 174 passengers and six crew members, flight data showed the plane climbed to 16,000 feet (4,876 metres) before returning to Portland International Airport.

On Friday, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that all 737 MAX 9 planes would remain grounded until Boeing provides further data following the near-catastrophic Alaska Airlines incident.

The regulator has also launched a safety probe into the incident, the first major in-flight safety issue on a Boeing plane since fatal 2018 and 2019 737 MAX crashes that led to a lengthy grounding of the aircraft.

Boeing 737 Max jets have been grounded worldwide in the past. In October 2018 they were not let to fly for almost two years after a crash in Indonesia killed 189 people, and another in Ethiopia five months later, which killed 157 people.

BANGALORE, India, May 30, 2012 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] on May 3 delivered to the U.S. Navy the first EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft with a cockpit subassembly produced by Bangalore-based Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The subassembly provides cockpit floodlighting compatible with the aircraft's Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS).

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