Cockpit
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A cockpit, also called flight deck, is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle.
Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits/Flight Decks are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology.
1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column.
View of a cockpit seen from outside of a British Airways Boeing 747-400
A later analogue cockpit (1970s) of a Hawker Siddeley Trident airliner
Flight instruments
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Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading a
Cockpit
…the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the aircraft. In most airliners, a door separates the cockpit/Flight Deck from…
The cockpit of a Slingsby T-67 Firefly two-seat light airplane. The flight instruments are visible on the left of the instrument panel
Six basic instruments in a light twin-engine airplane arranged in a "basic-T". From top left: airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, turn coordinator, heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator
Aero Magnetic Compass