OT try your workplace skills to remember all the screens

No worries. I had that baby spinning out of control in no time at all :))

I love the "old-technology" used to attach the note to the cockpit door (masking tape)

It's interesting that modern aircraft manufacturers have gone for the sidestick control replacing the older control column between the pilot's knees.

The Captain always sits in the left hand seat. This almost forces the Captain to become left handed. If you are right handed and try your PC joystick with your left hand it's not easy, even tho these sidesticks in the picture are a mirror image of each other.

Can you imagine the difficulty of being a First Officer (RH seat) for many years and then getting promoted to Captain and not being able to cope with a left hand sidestick?

How embarrassing.

"In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags"

See translation here:

John,

That's not an A380, its a Nissan GU 3.0l diesel set up to monitor EGT, MAF, boost, etc so it doesn't blow up when driving along a highway at 100kph.

;-)

I can not believe it! Why in the whole universe they need laptop in cockpit?!? There are not enough computers around?

Definitley got more guages than Roachies truck.....lol

Very nice panoramic view indeed! If you look really carefully you will see the ultimate fallback emergency navigation aid right in the centre, above the window, in a black surround. It is a simple fluid mounted magnetic compass just like your average light aircraft has!!

Airbus flying is basically computer management. There are many "modes" that can be displayed in those big computer screens. The most common phrase heard when crews started training on the early Airbus types (A300 and A320) was "What is it doing now?)

Kingo

What are the handles below the left and right windows???

Window openers or something else??

That is magggnificent.

I'm going to whip down to the local Mitsubishi dealer and test drive the 380.