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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Instead of movies and crappy games on those in-flight displays, they should just stream the view out the cockpit window. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some planes and carriers have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzAcWff7nU

It costs money though, so you usually only see them on more premium carriers and larger planes.

I'm working from memory here, but I think there was an instance where there was a crash or some incident where people could see it happening on the cameras though... and it's not ideal having everyone in the plane panicking because they're going to die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add a delay and have it cut off if there's an emergency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How long of a delay (too long and people complain) and how to cut if off without having to add another line to the pilot's checklists during troubleshooting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.