If you look at planes they allways have their windshield go from horizon to 45 degrees or more above the horizon. Why is it not the other way around? There is way more to see and be aware of beneath the plane than above. So why do they not do this?
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>If you look at planes they allways have their windshield go from horizon to 45 degrees or more above the horizon. Why is it not the other way around?
Several reasons:
1. Pilots sit quite high in the cockpit – above the center-line of the window and sometimes nearly as high as the top edge of the window, so they do get quite a good view of the ground.
1. The nose of the plane is filled with avionics, radar, and other instrumentation.
1. Planes don’t travel vertically, like helicopters, but forward and down (more forward than down). There isn’t really a need to see what’s beneath the cockpit.
1. Some planes do have downward facing cockpit windows – bombers, for example.
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