A380 TailCam Makes It Look Like Flight Sim

Even Aaron would have to agree that the Europeans got it right on this idea. These are a couple of videos taken from the in-tail video camera mounted 75 feet high at the top of the vertical stabilizer on an Airbus A380. The top one was from a takeoff and the bottom from the recent Emirates tour as the A380 landed in SFO. If you are lucky enough to catch a ride on this behemoth, but are unlucky enough to be crammed in a middle seat, being able to watch the view from this angle on the TV mounted in the headrest would make the trip a lot more enjoyable. That is unless, your flight experiences some sort of in-flight emergency and the whole cabin gets to watch it unfold in real time on the screen in front of them. I've got to imagine the flight crew would turn off the feed right before things got too nasty though. Pretty amazing footage, even if it does look like it came from MS Flight Simulator.

Thanks, Jim.

(Gizmodo)


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