What is that

what is that

a piece of modern avionics in an otherwise ancient aircraft

what is it called and what does it do?

That's the night vision goggles. The pilot gets to use them during dark as fuck landings.
>full moon on a cloudless night landings, best night landings

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Why are there so many buttons and dials in a plane, compared to a car?

to control all systems and instrument calibration xD

Everything is manual and usually redundant.
Helps to decrease some machine fuckup chance by increasing the human fuckup chance.
Also raises the bar for someone stealing it specially in military planes because there's no key at all. ex: if you knew how to pilot an A-10 and there was one laying around in a landing strip you could technically just get int and fly away.

Because Linux have more dials and configs, than a Windows.
Same reason, pro-enterprise usage and home usage.
But teslags have no dials, as well as magfags

Maybe I'm a brainlet, but how the fuck do you even see out of the cockpit, and don't you slightly angle the nose up during landings further obscuring vision?

This happened before with an enlisted Marine. I forgot his name and aircraft he stole though, but he basically took it for a joy ride and was thrown into the brig when he landed.

VR for the prostitute that straddles the controls

Sure but you still have to navigate to the landing strip

These planes are driven entirely by instrument data, you aren't supposed to look outside.

Pretty sure they are VR goggles, the pilots hard wire themselves and jack into the plane, and use the goggles to see what the plane see, and feel.

>Also raises the bar for someone stealing it specially in military planes because there's no key at all
Where to download the fucking manual?

And where VIN number is located on theses things?

u dont stole my fuckin plane

First of all, it's a twin engine, so that automatically doubles everything.
2x oil pressure gauges
2x temperature gauges
2x RPM gauges
2x etcetera related to engine
Now consider your car only cares about its mph/kmph. An aircraft cares about airspeed, altitude, climb rate, angle of attack, heading, pitch & roll, turn angle indicator, and a few other things, all of which are shown twice for the pilot and co-pilot seats respectively.
This picture doesn't even show you the flight engineer station.

What the fuck do all those buttons on a plane even do?

numerous subsystems, electrical, hydraulic, multiple communication and navigation system, redundancies for all of these things too

>Literally buy that steam game with the A-10
>Read the hundreds of pages manual.
>Learn how to make it get out of the ground without blowing up the engines
>Find a USAF base without being noticed
>Get on BRRRRTTTT machine and get it out of the ground before everyone notices you and sends the F35s on your ass
There you go my terrorist friend.

Nowadays you primarily use instruments to guide yourself. Even before the days of sophisticated instruments and computers you would use lights on the runway which would guide you to the correct angle of attack.

>This picture doesn't even show you the flight engineer station.
Like illegal taxi driver, a lot of naviators and tablets on windshield?

they literally do it so brainlets can't fly

That's only for the F-35.. for now.

Yes. However the goggles are for finding the airfield and the approach, the actual landing part is done by staring at the gauges making sure nothing twitches on your glide slope in until touch down.
Older airliners (mainly Russian ones) had windows below the feet, but after a while those too have gone away.

viewgoggle for see the bobs and vagene under cloth

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Things, many many things.
No, he sits behind these two and stares at more guages and switches on the starboard side behind co-pilot (normally, some odd aircraft such as B-36 have it on port side behind pilot, but that's just silly).

I genuinely find military aircraft to be among the most interesting pieces of engineering we have on this planet.

Wat goes on over here?

Thank you inventor of the Multi-Function Display, newer birds are so much less cluttered (which means less accidental switch flips when flying through rough air).

it's for the flight engineer / Second officer
The flight engineer has the task to monitor and operate the aircraft systems such as the pressurized cabin, the fuel supply and the engines. In case of error, he provides remedy. He reads checklists and carries out the technical controls of the aircraft on the ground and in the air.

That watches the engines, in flight de-ice devices, and fuel tanks.

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Nice watermarks.

can sombody help me i need User manuals and / wiring diagrams for divers Airplane parts

Sorry

Much much better.
Imagine trying to do 4th/5th gen things with 1950 guages & radar display.. they'd need three people in a Typhoon minimum.

I doubt it'd even be possible. But there are 4th gens with two crewmembers, like the Super Hornet and F-15E.

I don't get why fighters don't have two crew these days. They're meant to be multirole as ever, but they have no guy in the back to work the precision bombs while the pilot takes care of flying.

I think the case with the Super Hornet and Strike Eagle was that the airframes were too old to be upgraded to allow everything to be situated for the pilot to handle, so it may have been easier to just create a second seat and allow a weapons system officer to operate the weapons.

Any pilots?

The Super Hornet isn't an upgraded Hornet, it's an entirely new airframe. The decision was deliberate.

Student glider pilot here

The main reason is splitting the workload. You can't overwhelm a pilot with jobs and information. That's how you get a dead pilot. It depends on aircraft and doctrine but most modern fighters are shifting away from multiple crew. The F-35 for instance, is largely built around the effective information delivery to the pilot. The plane's premise is giving one man a comprehensive and easily interpreted overview of their situation. More people would be more complexity and redundant. Slightly older airframes on the other hand? There's more of a strain on the individual to keep up with the various information streams and little in the way of systems in place to combine those streams.

nice
how it's like feel fly without engine?

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Piston engines were a nightmare to manage

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>cloudless night landings, best night landings
Last 10 feet in a small plane = the abyss. Totally awesome.

Runway lights. Plus, the nose is angled up during landing flare anyway. By that time, you have already made the runway, so you dont need to see.

I'm not too phased by it at present. All you hear is the air rushing past the canopy, which in a stall is reduced to silence, and if I drop the nose too much in a turn you hear it get louder. The main thing that bothers about not having an engine is that I still need to learn to judge height and distance so that I'm able to get back to field with enough height to land.

Quiet

It is heavier than the flight with a motor plane

what?

I mean the flight behavior

I've never flown anything else so I don't know.

The Spirit of St. Louis had no cockpit window. Only a periscope.

Really

Almost every airplane nowadays has an ils that can help align and set the right glidescopeto land at an airport. Also if anything a flying license is 95% landing practice, those people know their shit.

FLIR.

If not that, then nightvision. But I wouldn't expect it to be nightvision - that's also a non-modern flght deck, with analog HSI, VOR, etc...not even glass cockpit.

C-130? I've only ever worked C-5 or 707 airframes.

its an AN-24 millitäry cargo and passenger transporter

>he doesn't know how IFR works

laughingpilots.jpg

POST MORE FIGHTER COCKPITS

he stuck his head out the window to land

wait a second did that madman use a pair of bubble levels as an artificial horizon

Silence! I kill you.

Comfy chair

yes very

kek, that video
I like this thread. I'm working on my ppl.

Chemtrail scope

I imagine the lack of engine noise and the big glass cockpit would be very comfortable. Except for being towed by another plane, I don't find that so comfy. Way better than the noisy Lycoming on the Cessna 152 though. Each time I take my headset off to put the VFR view limiting goggle things my ears fucking bleed.

Gliders are usually way lighter. I don't know that much about them.

>The main compass was mounted behind Lindbergh in the cockpit, and he read it using the mirror from a women's makeup case which was mounted to the ceiling using chewing gum.
A different time.

sniper vision goggles

How hard could it be?

computer does the flying

A computer isn't able to do low level flying or evasive maneuvers.

Modern fighters don't need to fly low to accurately hit their targets with their payload, nor do they rely on maneuvers only for dogfighting. Fighters don't usually do CAS, and again if any multirole plane needs to hit a target they can do it from great altitude and distance with guided munitions.

>A computer isn't able to do low level flying
yes it is

>or evasive maneuvers.
only because the most information a modern jet is going to get on an active threat is "there's an Adder on your three and the jet that fired it is probably the one that's 17 nm away", and with that much information a human pilot is much more adept at evading the threat

>Fighters don't usually do CAS
are you talking shit about me?

I've seen footage from the F-35's camera. It was checking out a hotel room in a Vegas casino. It seemed like the plane was flying pretty low to be able to look into the room from the side. I doubt the pilot would be able to manage the camera and look out for buildings at the same time. He obviously did just that to get the footage, but I don't think it would have been very safe to do if there were anti air defenses in the city.

>It seemed like the plane was flying pretty low to be able to look into the room from the side.
no that was flying at 20,000 ft or more, it was just quite far away

>I doubt the pilot would be able to manage the camera and look out for buildings at the same time.
the camera has an IR lock capability and is managed through a single d-pad anyway, plus the jet has autopilot

There was a marine who stole a c-130 and tried to bomb France but got shot down by the RAF over the Channel.

>plus the jet has autopilot

I don't think it has autopilot good enough to do a canyon run, through.

yes it does, it has a radar altimeter and the AESA itself can scan the ground and feed that into the autopilot

the automatic recovery system will even maintain you at 2,000 ft real altitude, even if it means kicking into afterburner and scaling a mountain

It may be able to maintain a distance from the ground, or fly up and down a mountain, but I'm betting it's got no side to side distance detection for canyon runs and staying down within mountain ranges.

God fucking damn.

it has an AESA radar and an integrated targeting pod, if it doesn't have that capability it could be added with no hardware cost