What is Cockpit?
{{no sources|date=August 2023}} [[File:VC10FlightDeck.jpg|thumb|right|[[VC-10]] (1960s) The [[Vickers VC10]] [[airliner]] featured an analog cockpit, with old-style instruments.]][[File:Airbus-319-cockpit.jpg|thumb|right|[[Airbus A319]] cockpit. Most Airbus cockpits are computerised [[glass cockpit]]s featuring [[fly-by-wire]] technology. The [[control column]] has been replaced with an electronic sidestick.]]A '''cockpit''' is the open space, normally near the front of an [[aircraft]], where a [[pilot]] controls the aircraft. A different name for the cockpit is the flight deck, flight deck can also refer to the flight deck on an [[aircraft carrier]]. Current cockpits have walls on all sides, this may not be the same for some small aircraft, and cockpits on aircraft with [[passenger|passengers]] have the cockpit separated from the passenger area of the aircraft. [[Motorboat]]s also have cockpits. Cockpit as a term for the pilot's space in an [[aircraft]] first appeared in 1914. From about 1935 cockpit also came to be used informally to refer to the driver's seat of a [[Automobile|car]], especially a high performance one, and this is official terminology in [[Formula One]]. The term is most likely related to the [[Cockpit (sailing)|sailing term]] for the coxswain's station in a [[Royal Navy]] ship, and later the location of the ship's rudder controls. ==Related pages== * [[Aviation]] * [[Aerodynamics]] * [[Mechanical engineering]] {{Transport-stub}} [[Category:Aircraft]]