A380 Cockpit layout:

[airgator]

I'm surprised they bothered to put seats in the front

http://airbus.dyndns.info/A380/

 

[Typhoon1244]

Okay, I realize that cockpits are looking more and more like Star Trek as the years pass, but...what the heck is the full "Qwerty" keyboard for? While the autopilot's running the show, can you check your eMail...maybe surf on Flightinfo?

Does the A320 family have that keyboard?

 

[Eagleflip]

Nope, no keyboard on a 320. I bet that the OIS is for electronic Jepps; our computerized approaches are supposed to be viewed on a hard-wired display built in to the tray table. The illustration for the 380 shows the display on a moveable screen to the left and right of the respective stick.

All in all, the cockpit bears a striking resemblance to the whole Airbus line. I'm betting the commonality is huge.

Another intresting note...the bottom pic shows stick figures gaining access to the radome area--and maybe the cockpt as well--via the nose gear area. I guess Wesley Snipes, aka Passenger 57, lives on! It's about time that reality caught up with Hollywood...

 

[dmspilot00]

C:\> takeusto_london.exe

 

[bigD]

Error reading drive C:
<A>bort <R>etry <F>ail?


::crash::

 

[dgs]

Keyboard

Eagleflip has forgotten about the sequential keyboard on the MCDU. For anybody who has tried to type a long ACARS text message, a QWERTY keyboard would be a godsend.

It looks like it has a keyboard and a mouse. It also looks like they plan to use screens with dropdown menus. Let's just hope they don't use a Microsoft OS.

dmspilot00 is probably pretty correct, except it will probably not be command line entry. Heck, even with the 320, we just put JFKLGB001 in the route block in the MCDU and most of the hard programming work is done.

 

[VNugget]

Looks like Typhoon1244 was correct.

 

[airgator]

ha ha ha nice touch

 

[Wings Level]

VNugget,

that was indeed a good one!

 

[profile]

The keyboard is literally for things such as email as well as real time weather access, electronic flight bag and more. Full time intranet access allows all of that anywhere in the world. There is a computer screen on the outboard of the panel on each side, plus one at each relief pilot station and the plan is for one in each crew rest area as well.

 

[Huck]

"There I was, flat on my back, one turning and one burning, typing eighty words a minute...."

 

[profile]

Should add that email is envisioned by AI for all company comm, with ACARs comm being limited to ATC use in the future. The airplane is very impressive, AI has, overall, done a nice job on it. The full size cabin mockup is incredibly spacious feeling. Performance numbers are impressive also, with max weight approach speed of just 140kts and initial cruise of FL370/M0.855.

 

[00Dog]

"There I was, flat on my back, one turning and one burning, typing eighty words a minute...."

 

[ShawnC]

I can just see it now, the latest USA geek flick. All of the crew is dead, a kid flies a A380 into London Cat I using only the help of the forum on FlightInfo.com.

 

[active_herk]

Profile,

What is the max landing weight of the A380? I've heard the MAXTOGW is somewhere near 1.2 million. 140 kts on final at max landing?? That is pretty impressive, especially when compared with the mad dog.

 

[profile]

MTOGW = 1,300,000
MLGW = 941,000

Yes, pretty impressive compared to our 167 kts min approach speed at flaps 35 at 481.5.

 

[airgator]

click on "general information" and it has the weights and fuel info.

 

[bobbysamd]

Panel

Is that some kind of table or writing desk on the FO's side? It looks like some kind of small card table to me.

Ernest Gann would roll over in his grave if he saw that cockpit. Come to think of it, he could work on his books on the keyboard when it was not his leg!

PS:

Looks like Typhoon1244 was correct .

That flat screen on the Captain's side looks like my Mac! Did Steve Jobs win that subcontract? I thought that Airbus Industrie did business only with other European companies.

 

[dgs]

Re: Panel

I thought that Airbus Industrie did business only with other European companies.

bobbysamd -- This has been covered extensively in the A320 vs. 737 debates. I'm surprised you missed it. About 40% of the A320 is actually manufactured in the US. Mostly avionics and engines. It will be interesting to see what the percentage is for the A380.

 

[ShawnC]

Re: Panel

PS:

That flat screen on the Captain's side looks like my Mac! Did Steve Jobs win that subcontract? I thought that Airbus Industrie did business only with other European companies.

If you look on the bottom you see a standard Windows Taskbar, it just appear that they are using Netscape instead of IE.