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[Beefy McGee]

It's not quite as roomy as the picture makes it seem. The panoramic pic combined with the photo being taken from the right rear area of the cockpit is sort of taking the curve out of the left and right sides of the cockpit wall / windscreen areas making it look broader than it is.

 

[z987k]

It's not quite as roomy as the picture makes it seem. The panoramic pic combined with the photo being taken from the right rear area of the cockpit is sort of taking the curve out of the left and right sides of the cockpit wall / windscreen areas making it look broader than it is.

It's the roomiest cockpit that I know of. If you've got 3 comfy seats, a couple beds, hotplates for meals on the long flights.... that's not your typical airplane.

 

[Beefy McGee]

Yeah they are pretty big still. Don't forget the cool bubble dome for the nav to get old-school celestial sightings. I always wanted to stick my head up there in flight, but Army groundpounders don't get many chances to ride in 130 cockpits.

 

[SurferLucas]

Yesterday, caught this shot...

Alaska 73 passing in front of Mt. Rainier, departing SeaTac on the SUMMA7 departure...taken from the Fauntleroy/Southworth Ferry:

 

[derg]

Dolla dolla bills, y'all.

 

[NewYorkophile]

Yeah they are pretty big still. Don't forget the cool bubble dome for the nav to get old-school celestial sightings. I always wanted to stick my head up there in flight, but Army groundpounders don't get many chances to ride in 130 cockpits.

Sort of! In the mid-aft of the cockpit, there is still the sextant port. It's just the mount for the actual sextant, which we don't carry onboard (and only a handful of navs worldwide are qualified to do celestial anymore, they stopped teaching it about 15 years ago). The mount is always there, and we can even open the small 1.5" port hole to the open air (usually to vent bodily gases).

The bubble, however, gets mounted in place of our cockpit overhead escape hatch. We don't carry it onboard- usually it's only installed for air-to-air missions. The view is spectacular up there, though.

This picture actually shows the sextant installed, with the hatch outlined in yellow behind it (which is where the bubble would go).

 

[Fencer]

North of 39 parallel and west of W-107C a rare sandbar appeared in Atlantic ocean. Couldn't miss the chance to walk it. It's not your regular beach and it will be gone in two hours

 

[Dugie8]

New office pano.

 

[Capt. Chaos]

Rocking the old school ice plate.

Miss fire that turned out sort of artsy.

 

[Roger Roger]

Rocking the old school ice plate.

Miss fire that turned out sort of artsy.

That doesn't look like the old one, that looks like the $25,000 one.

 

[Adler]

This was fun to watch!

 

[Finny]

This was fun to watch!

Great shot with the cathedral in the background!

 

[ChasenSFO]

Stopped by my old office today after work seeing what I could manage in the last 15 minutes of sunlight. Luckily this guy took off right before the light faded.
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EVA Air 777-300ER B-18701 "Star Alliance" late evening departure from SFO by ChasenSFO, on Flickr

 

[EIR]

Telluride

Yellowstone Lake
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Some where over Montana
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[bike21]

A little earning of the turns today with the Mrs.

 

[SurferLucas]

Another night, another beautiful sunset to fill the NW skies...

 

[ChasenSFO]

3 from Monday:


United Airlines Airbus A320 sunrise departure from SFO. by ChasenSFO, on Flickr

JAL Boeing 777-300ER JA737J taxiing at SFO by ChasenSFO, on Flickr

San Francisco Bay Area Pink and Purple Sunset with a Palm Tree. by ChasenSFO, on Flickr

 

[EIR]

@bike21, I'm not familiar with those skis, what are they?

 

[z987k]

@bike21, I'm not familiar with those skis, what are they?

ScottyBobs I imagine.

 

[bike21]

@bike21, I'm not familiar with those skis, what are they?

Splitboard as it were.