New moving map
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New moving map
Sorry if I have missed this in other posts, but the moving map has changed.
On a MAD - LHR flight yesterday on a A320 there was a new version of the moving map. Screen views change and it is difficult to explain the differences but here goes:
simulated view from the cockpit;
information about time, speed, height etc running along the bottom of the map rather than a page of their own;
but such information sometimes (rarely) as a page;
less extensive map so it tends to focus on the route rather than show Japan;
but small sub-screen pf world with day/night appears from time to time;
graphic show plane whooshing on a green arrow across the land from different angles.
A more entertaining version.
On a MAD - LHR flight yesterday on a A320 there was a new version of the moving map. Screen views change and it is difficult to explain the differences but here goes:
simulated view from the cockpit;
information about time, speed, height etc running along the bottom of the map rather than a page of their own;
but such information sometimes (rarely) as a page;
less extensive map so it tends to focus on the route rather than show Japan;
but small sub-screen pf world with day/night appears from time to time;
graphic show plane whooshing on a green arrow across the land from different angles.
A more entertaining version.
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Hi,
I have seen this display on several of the short haul flights ( usually for me the domestics LHR-EDI) recently. I do not know how many aircraft have this new system.
Regards
TBS
I have seen this display on several of the short haul flights ( usually for me the domestics LHR-EDI) recently. I do not know how many aircraft have this new system.
Regards
TBS
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It's the Rockwell Collins Airshow (I think the 4200 series). It's been on some short haul for a while now, certainly a year, maybe 2 years (?). It is certainly more interesting than the older version which painfully shows where Dar es Salaam is in relation to LHR to NCL, but it lacks some granularity at lower scale. But yes, a lot more interesting, with loads of different views. It's also on the new IFE on long haul.
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I think it is the Rockwell Collins system, seen on the newer A319/20/21's.
It has been around for a few years, but is probly becoming more common now, with more new aircraft replacing older ones.
bjorns
It has been around for a few years, but is probly becoming more common now, with more new aircraft replacing older ones.
bjorns
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Them appearing on 320s must coincide with freshly factory delivered ones that have made their way into the BA fleet recently.
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Yep, all of my BA A321 (G-EUX) have had the maps off for some reason.
The ex-bmi ones have maps, in yet another style, quite cool though! But I can't quite figure out why the line is always completely crooked as if we were going left and right, up and down all the time
The ex-bmi ones have maps, in yet another style, quite cool though! But I can't quite figure out why the line is always completely crooked as if we were going left and right, up and down all the time
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With a cute little BMI aircraft flying the roller-coaster route. I'm told the zigzags are due to amplification of deviations detected, and adjustments made, by the flight management system: the cockpit is a champagne-free zone.