Lars Pind

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Moving maps on airplanes

November 16, 2006 · 1 comment

These graphical moving maps that show you where you are and how fast you’re going and at what altitude, they’re nice and all. But the only thing I really care about it how long time there is till we’re on the ground again. And that information only flashes once every 5 minutes or so, if you’re lucky. So if you’re trying to catch some sleep, it’s really hard to get at that information. Especially since I use my cell phone as my watch normally, and airlines tend to be less than fond of cell phones.

What I really want is a large LED alarm clock style display, separate from the in-flight entertainment system that just shows the number of hours and minutes estimated until touch-down. Please?

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  • 1 Mark Aufflick // Nov 18, 2006 at 12:53 PM

    What's even worse is when it's a multi-lingual system which means it only comes round in English every second time! You'd think I could remember now which of the three numbers on the screen represented time to arrival, but i'm usually too tired to think spatially.