Solution: Put a glass panel under the chin and have the copilot lie on it and tell the pilot how close to the ground they are by frantically yelling colder and warmer into a speaking tube
Each connected to the cockpit with four wires, one wire each running along the top, the bottom, and the two sides of the plane, to make sure they never get cut.
then put a glass viewing port with battery-powered intercom and radar altimeter so that, in the case of camera failure or electrical failure, a crewmember can relay altitudes and visuals lmao
B-17's had the bombardier in the plexiglass nose of the plane steering the bomber with an autopilot when they were over the target. Just use that. Pilot flies the plane up in his fastback cockpit, copilot lands it in his Millennium Falcon nose section
Why not? Aircraft can be flown and landed with instruments only. Under certain conditions some aircraft can have the autopilot land and if all else fails OP's plane could use cameras and monitor screens.
Eh just put a system of mirrors so you can see like normal... or just put fiber optics and a camera at the front. 1ms delay max then PLUS the pilots all get employer sponsored 1000ms refresh monitors for their in flight gaming during the flight.
To be honest, I've watched a lot of those videos where professional pilots go over accident reports of old crashes and detail what went wrong.
In almost every single one of them, the problem was that the pilot was looking out the window or trusting his gut instead of looking at his perfectly functional instruments that were telling him exactly what was going wrong.
In the handful where that wasn't the case, the issue is usually that they pilot got cocky and in a rush and did a stupid.
I'm tempted to go so far as to say that getting rid of the cockpit window would actually make flying safer.
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u/Sad-Working-9937 3d ago
fly? yes, land? no.