I'm on a flight back from Seattle. While we were at the gate, waiting for the boarding process to hear, I heard a computer voice from the cockpit announcing: "Pull up! Terrain! Terrain! Pull up!"
I've played more than enough flight simulators to know that this is the helpful warning that the computer gives you when you are about to plow into the ground. Obviously, while parked at the gate, we weren't about to plow into anything. So that wasn't what made me nervous. It was that the computer was so confused about the state of the plane that it thought we were.
It just doesn't seem like a good sign.
They test each of the systems as part of their pre-flight check. That includes each of the fun voices yelling at the pilots. "WIND SHEAR! WIND SHEAR!"
Posted by: Dave on March 8, 2004 09:22 AMWow. I never knew that. Somehow, I've never heard that before. Maybe I've never been close enough to the front or they've always had the door shut.