Flight details now in cabins
By JALE MOALA
NZPA Suva Air New Zealand Boeing 747 and 767 aircraft will be fitted with new inflight video information systems that virtually put passengers in the pilot’s seat, the airline’s office Sophisticated equipment called Airshow 100 will relay flight-deck information to video screens in the passenger cabins. The precise position bf the aircraft — altitude, air speed, ground speed, air 5 temperature and points of Interest along the route -r will be displayed on the screen, together with an accurate short,. medium, and longdistance map showing the 'Ute-by
minute-by-minute track of the aircraft.
The manager of Air New Zealand Mr Roger Poulton, said that the system had been installed in one of the air-
line’s 8747 aircraft and, after a four-month trial, had met unqualified praise from passengers.
Air New Zealand is the first airline flying the Pacific basin to have the feature. Installation of Airshow 100 in all. the airline’s wide-bodied . aircraft should be completed by the end of the year. >.
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