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Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:28PM (#31347762)
This was a Cessna 208, not a 172. Possibly glass cockpit and definitely turboprop.

It would look more like this unless it has the glass cockpit of course:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Cessna_2...

Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by Macha on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:58AM (#31353424)
I believe elsewhere in this thread it was confirmed to have the older gauges, and I don't believe in this example it makes a meaningful difference in the readability of the primary instruments.
Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by platz on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:14PM (#31348459)
can you even see out the front window with how low the seat is?
Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by mlyle on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:13PM (#31348870)
Yah. This is something that is always messed up in pictures of cockpits or flight simulators. The eye is pretty wide angle compared to any reasonable looking photograph inside a cockpit.

In the real world, when you sit up straight, you see just fine out of a tricycle gear airplane and see the runway ahead on the ground and the ground below you in the air. And then you slouch a couple inches and look down and have a great view of the bottom instruments.