One of the most fun things to do while flying is to look outside the window and see the beauty of mountains, islands and buildings down below. But we are limited to what we see by where we fly in and out of. You cannot experience the pure beauty of flying into Iceland if your flight is from Ohio to New York. But if the window seat window was replaced by a TV screen of the same size and it was programmed for flights over different locations then one could just change the channel and they would be flying over African Forests or the Great Wall of China. How it works is this. A plane actually flies over these locations with cameras mounted on almost all windows, front back, left right to simulate it according to where people sit. I know this sounds a bit too expensive… but I am sure that given proper thought a much cheaper method could be designed. The completely take-off and flying are synchronized. So when you put it on while the plane is charging through the runway of LaGuardia and you want to simulate a flight from New Delhi to Tibet then it will show take off from that airport. Also the flight timer and the TV timer are synchronized… after take off if you put the TV on it shows the flight only and no take off. There are a few problems though:

1) Flight durations vary.

2) It will be very hard to incorporate this into a flight that is really long with many stops.

3) One misses out on the look-down experience from the window.

But I think with the advantages in the system some smart entrepreneur might just pull it off.

Also for those who just want to see New York on a New York bound flight there is always the option to press a button and the TV will slide down.

PS: I imagine that the prices could be severely reduced if somehow the TVs on the back of a seat where placed on the window.

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