This is just kind of a way to prevent pilots from leaving their doors open for flights. Its not really stopping them from doing it, just giving a warning that the doors are open if indeed they want to close them.
Why do we need this?
If you have ever been looking through replays and found the perfect screenshot with another plane, and then realized they have their doors open, it sorta ruins the picture.
Also, its annoying when you legitimately forget that you left them open and realize halfway through your flight.
Many pilots like me tend to stick to the cockpit cam, and may not notice the doors position. Here is what I envision:
A gray box similar to that when you are nearing violation, but merely says âOpen Doorsâ or something similar. It could also have an exclamation mark. I would like it to have a âTap to dismissâ feature, so if you donât care or donât want the message you can get rid of it fast.
My idea is that toggling pushback with doors open will trigger the message.
I vote for this feature! It has happened a few times to me that I pushback and realized I have of couple of doors still open, and even seen people who land at an airport with the cargo hold door open for example. A combination of visual warnings and disabled pushback button should tell the user to close the doors before departure.
But what Iâm saying is that currently there is no reason to check it before pushback. If its added, yes there will be a reason, but you can also just forget because you have never had to look down in the past.
Its pretty simple. You wonât even see the warning if you have your doors closed. I donât really understand why you are against it.
I understand where you are coming from, but the entire point of an EICAS/ECAM is to alert the crew to the aircraftâs configuration.
Right now we display âAPU runningâ on there to serve as a reminder to shut it off once you have started up, flaps and flight controls are also displayed. I think the vast majority of competent people are already checking it.
While I donât think it would be necessary for a giant on screen warning which is very video game-like, âdoors openâ on the EICAS should catch your attention as you are preparing to push since it would display as long as avionics had power and there is an open door.
But then why do we have a taxi speed warning? Airspeed warning? Shouldnât pilots be able to just look at their airspeed/groundspeed and verify they arenât breaking the rules?
Its for the less experienced pilots that:
Donât necessarily know where to look
Donât understand how to read the gauges
We may understand how to use it, but for someone that is new to IF or aviation in general its alot harder.
IF should not aim to cater primarily to the least experienced demographic. Thatâs why RFS exists.
(Kidding)
But seriously I think a door warning would be great, but an onscreen message should be reserved for things that you can get punished for (violations, ATC auto tune,TFRs), not config issues
