cockpit

Also known as flight deck

thumb|thumbtime=36|Cockpit of an Airbus A319 during landing thumb|thumbtime=36|Cockpit of an IndiGo A320 A cockpit, also called flight deck, is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle.thumb|Cockpit of an Airbus A380|A380. Most Airbus cockpits/Flight Decks are glass cockpits featuring [[fly-by-wire technology.]] thumb|1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column. thumb|View of a cockpit seen from outside of a British Airways [[Boeing 747-400]] The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instr