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Something You Don’t Want to See on a Real Plane

Yesterday when we were in transit at the Hong Kong airport, Anna and Elsie were playing with the kids’ ride that simulates the cockpit of a commercial jet. There’s nothing real about the cockpit, but I guess it does not really matter as kids are happy with anything that resemble buttons and blink.

Anna and Elsie playing with the instrument

It does have a small display panel though, showing 4 different flight instruments to both pilots. When you pull, push or rotate the control column, the display actually changes — like a real plane! However only the set on the left hand side works. The instruments would not update when you move the control column on the RHS. Upon close inspection reveals why the displays fail to update.

Flight instruments

When you zoom in…

System Error

Now, that’s something you definitely don’t want to see on a real plane!

Category: Life, Technology | Sun, 26 October 2008 11:33 pm
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Comments

1.
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Posted by Tami on Mon, 27 October 2008 12:10 am

LOL!!! I can’t stop laughing!!! XD
not a good “role model” for the kiddies!!! :P


2.
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Posted by Johnny Coates on Mon, 27 October 2008 10:35 am

Yeah!.. LOL.. Well, it is really scary seeing this stuff on a plane. just look how arrogant those kids are! just joking LOL.


3.
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Posted by Cherry Sun on Thu, 30 October 2008 10:11 am

Hahahaha, they are so cute!! =)


4.
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Posted by Al on Sun, 2 November 2008 11:53 pm

Surely you’d just press CTRL+ALT+DEL right?


5.
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Posted by FH2o on Mon, 10 November 2008 1:08 pm

This is cute – your post and your kids!

Greetings from Kuching. I have 3 kids of my own – and my youngest is 16; who may want to learn to fly. You know teens – they change their mind all the time.

BTW thanks for the WordPress – redirect plugin which is reason why I dropped in. This nice blog is an added bonus. Cheers.
Francis Ho


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Posted by Elsie on Mon, 17 November 2008 6:42 pm

Anna’s hair is getting so long!


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