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Do Airlines Still Show The Takeoff On TV Monitors?

Lax From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2290 posts, RR: 3
Posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1653 times:

Years ago, I remember being able to watch the takeoff from your seat in the passenger cabin via closed-circuit TV cameras.

Is this still done today?

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Zizou From Australia, joined Oct 2000, 1527 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1568 times:

I think Emirates offers this on most of their flights

Ryanb741 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2002, 3219 posts, RR: 17
Reply 2, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1551 times:

Emirates has a forward-facing camera and a down-facing camera (kind of like the ones is MS FS2000) which are viewable on the PTV. The only problem is that on the 777-300 they are located left of centre, so when you land you are thinking 'Right a bit, right a bit more!' as it seems you are not properly lined up with the runway!

I used to think the brain is the most fascinating part of my body. But, hey, who is telling me that?

Jetguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1540 times:

Anyone remember the classic story about the (AA?) crew that involved a sleeve from a gorilla costume, a banana and the closed circuit TV? I heard about it a long time ago, but I'm not too sure about the details. It was in all of the newspapers. Very funny stuff.

Bigmo747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 306 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1518 times:

Saudia has this service available on there 747-400's as well as ther 777's. The camera's are on while the plane is in motion on the ground, during take-off and landing. Inflight on there ptv's they have a downward and upward view camera. Great airline to fly with. I agree with ryanb--u have the same feeling on saudia since the cameras never seem lined up with the runway.

AndyEastMids From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 996 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1507 times:

Even charter airline Airtours had the forwards and downwards looking cameras on their A330s, and shows it on the PTVs - one of the few things on their PTVs that make sense without having to pay for the headsets! Smile

However, I believe that the practice died out to a large extent after the American DC-10 crash at O'Hare, when the take off and accident was played on the big screen for all the passengers to watch.

Andy

Alpha 1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1485 times:

I don't think it was ever confirmed, but it was said that just before AA 191 crashed in ORD in 1978-the DC-10 who's engine fell off on the runway-that on that aircraft the passengers were watching their takeoff, and, sadly, their final moments.

TonyBurr From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 982 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1458 times:

All Nippon Airways has a camera showing the forward motion.

EGGD From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 12426 posts, RR: 41
Reply 8, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1455 times:

Wow airtours have it in their A330's!

I saw alot of them not doing too good in crosswinds at MAN, would've been pretty scary! Touched down on one side mostly Smile

EGGD

Alle From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1447 times:

Finnair have them on their A319/A320/A321 fleet.

Alexander

Dvk From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1058 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1422 times:

My flight from Atlanta to Capetown last year on SAA had the camera which showed the take off on the video screen. It was a lot of fun to watch the takeoff from that view.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Englandair From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2000, 2228 posts, RR: 3
Reply 11, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1413 times:

bmi british midland have them on the A330 (soon to be A330s!). There's one in the 'nose', pointing forwards, and one in the 'belly' pointing down.

Airnewzealand From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 2538 posts, RR: 6
Reply 12, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1372 times:

AirNZ have them on their 744. They are really cool to look at what my sister said!!.

At AirNZ they are turned on just before Push Back, and are played right through till takeoff!! On Landing they are on, but only sometimes!!

Have a great day!!
Mikey

Gyro From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1361 times:

The only time I saw it was on a Condor 763...

Baec777 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 1231 posts, RR: 2
Reply 14, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1361 times:

Does Air France have them on A340s...?? Im leaving on AF sometimes this week or 2.... let me know Big thumbs up

Air France Airbus A340-312 @ Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW) USA - Texas, May 7, 2001

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Baec777 Smokin cool

Frequentflyer5 From United States of America, joined May 2001, 236 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1327 times:

ANA has done this for some time, both forward and bottom views. JAL has just started this on their transpacific routes and is viewable through the whole flight. However these cameras seem to be turned off during turbulence and or inclement weather.

KHI747 From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 1609 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1325 times:

LAX, with all due respect, i think its a rather stupid topic. If airlines had these cameras one year ago,as you experienced yourself, what makes you think they would'nt exist now????

LAX From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2290 posts, RR: 3
Reply 17, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1318 times:

Thanks for that blast of obnoxiousness, KHI747!!

I appreciate that!!

Of course, if you would bother to read my original post, you would see you are totally in error!

I didn't say just "one" year ago.......I said "Years ago...." (as in several or many). Actually, it was 1975 when I last flew!

Angry

Overlord From Portugal, joined Jul 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (11 years 11 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1284 times:

KHI747, if the topic is so stupid, then why were you stupid enough to respond to it?

AI744LR From Thailand, joined May 2001, 106 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1268 times:

Back to the interesting topic: This service is available on CX's 777-300s. I wonder if they have it on their 747s also. Anyone?

I wonder why SQ (such an advanced airline) doesn't offer this. I know that up until April 2000, they didn't.

Cheers!

TAA_Airbus From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 726 posts, RR: 0
Reply 20, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1258 times:

Air Nostalgia, a scenic charter company which operates a DC-3 out of Essendon (YMEN), Australia has a camera on the nose which is linked to the cabin TVs, you can watch all stages of flight on the TV. Which is ideal, considering its for scenic flying and flys so low.

Captaink From Mexico, joined May 2001, 5093 posts, RR: 13
Reply 21, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1249 times:

I remember being on a DC-10 American Airlines from San Juan to JFK.. we had a take off shown on the TV's But i was young i wasnt too sure if it was our aircraft..

There is something special about planes....

N80NA From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 182 posts, RR: 0
Reply 22, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1227 times:

on a recent SFO-NRT-SFO ANA 777 :

westbound, camera was turned on
eastbound, same aircraft, camera was off :+(

Andie007 From Germany, joined Jun 2000, 848 posts, RR: 0
Reply 23, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1227 times:

Lauda Air has 2 cameras outside the airplane. You can see the view on your PTV!

Pecoua From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 298 posts, RR: 0
Reply 24, posted (11 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1207 times:

I believe that with the AA crash in ORD in 1979, the practice of showing the takeoffs was available on all AA DC-10s so that's why the papers were saying that it was on the monitors...because it most likely was. However, my girlfriend's mom is a flight attendant for AA and has been with them since 1974. She told me that the cameras were built to shut off if the plane hit moderate to severe turbulence and if the plane's attitude became abnormal. She believes that the camera most likely shut off when the plane rolled past the verticle mark. I think that at that point, no one was watching the monitors anyway.

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