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Old Nov 2, 2010, 7:43 am
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troje
 
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Originally Posted by GuckyGucky
Hi All,

looks like SWISS is running a new airshow - at least on shorthaul (haven't been on longhaul with them for a while).
Featuring some sort of satellite picture (google-maps style) when close to departure, and destination airport (quite cool, you can see the aircraft pointer move on the runway - yes I know, I am by far too excited about this ) and some more realistic tracking of the route with a 3D display of the aircraft flying its route.

Quite a nice new toy - seen this on longhaul, too?

Cheers,
G
Had the same on my flight DME-ZRH two weeks ago. Pretty fancy to see the approach to the landing strip on satellite map!

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