I'm on the 737. The captain and I were getting a good laugh at what it would be like to label one of the switches. So...I took a pic with my Iphone and had a friend modify the image. We thought it was hilarious, but some of my FB friends didn't have a clue.
I used to make back panels for these type of switchboards for airplanes about 25 years ago. Cutting and bending anodized aluminum all day is quite boring job though.
Mick...that is still a little bit off, needs more cowb....fixing!
(Probably not the brightest move, seeing as the plane registration and flight number are clearly visible: I suspect American Airlines would have had a word with them for messing about on the job!)
I have spoken to a pilot I know, who flies Boeing 777s. The reply:
That’s the Flight Management Computer, it has a line at the bottom where we can type inputs for the performance or navigation pages in that computer screen... you can write anything in there, up to about 20 characters.
The TV screen he’s pointing at shows it’s a 777-300, those have cameras on both elevators, and the belly, to help with taxiing (they don’t help, but switching them on in flight can be interesting)
Basically, the Flight Management Computer (FMC) is showing genuine flight info, but the bottom line of text, where it says "CHEM-TRAIL_GEN_-_ON" has just been typed in using the keypad for data entry. If the pilot pressed the key to submit the command, it would just display an error because it's not a valid input.
The pic shows PROGRESS PG 2, which is just flight information, you can’t input anything there anyway.
When we finish a flight, I type GAME OVER INSERT COIN there, no one has ever mentioned it tho
@Craig Russell Just a minor point regarding the video you linked. The "chemtrail pentagram" in the introduction (from 0:10) is in fact an impressive example of precision skywriting, a hallmark of the Japanese aerobatic team Blue Impulse: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqotodzDGE