{"id":20729,"date":"2024-03-18T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cockpit-taxiing-vision-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:45:12","slug":"how-much-or-little-can-pilots-see-from-the-cockpit-when-taxiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=20729","title":{"rendered":"How Much (Or Little) Can Pilots See From The Cockpit When Taxiing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though pilots are trained to <em>fly<\/em> without being able to see ahead of them, being able to see where you are going <em>on the ground<\/em> is essential. How much <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/pilots\/\">pilots<\/a> can see while taxiing is determined by the plane&#39;s design, the size of the flight deck windows and their orientation, the tilt of the plane (think about taildraggers), and much more. Here&#39;s a short explanation of how forward visibility differs in general aviation planes and airliners, and which planes have the best (and worst) lines of sight on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much you can see depends on the plane you&#8217;re flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1158,6071,567,629,4328,1196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-cockpit","category-flight-deck","category-guides","category-pilots","category-taxi","category-taxiway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20730,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions\/20730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}