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0 pointsbri3d8y ago0 comments

That's a good point - I guess playing Falcon 4.0 is a good parallel (which makes sense, given how detailed a sim it is!), since I don't find myself needing to point-n-click over to too many onscreen cockpit controls while playing. I think what struck me about the (probably fake) image was that the pilot was entering something on what looks like a virtual DED, which seems like a tedious task even while not flying a plane. I wonder if any of the lower panels have kept a tactile DED or numpad.

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icegreentea28y ago

Oh, that's a good point. No idea how fake that is...

But, Elbit's line of next gen cockpits have the trade name of 'CockpitNG', and here's their sales brochure (http://elbitsystems.com/media/CockpitNG.pdf).

You can see that their main render/concept has plenty of dedicated entry devices left. I'm pretty confident that that render is off some legit production or semi production CAD models cause they bothered to leave in the USB port.

Now, there's no knowing what the Qatari's actually ordered - I'm sure Elbit and Boeing would happily modify the cockpit interior to order. But I think from that picture, you can be pretty confident that plane makers aren't just nilly willy throwing away physical controls.

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