This idea is inspired by the Airline pictures in flight.
Ever done one of those museum tours by CD where you enter the number of the artwork and the CD gives you history and interpretation of the painting? OK, similar idea. Multi-CD changer on board the plane connected to a GPS reciever. As the plane flys over an area the GPS receiver triggers a pre-recorded description of the area you're flying over. Topography, history, and key sites are all covered. It's played over the plane's soundsystem on one of the 8-12 channels available by headphone. So as you look out the window at some random city, a voice comes on to tell you you're flying over Shreveport, LA with a brief history and key facts about the town.
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Good idea, but what about the extra weight for such a system?
I just flew on a reasonably long flight and would have loved this sort of thing. The aircraft already gets information on it's location so it would only be a matter of communicating with some sort of database.
They also already have the different "radio" stations you can listen to so just add one more. People could change to that channel if they wanted to.
As an added note, just have James Earl Jones do the reading and everyone would want to listen.
That's a great idea. I often want to know about the places I'm passing over. This is particulary good for people living on the coasts of North America to get a better idea of "fly over country", and how rich the center of the nation is in history, geography, culture, etc.
I don't think this would weight much. A Multi-CD changer, a GPS device and something to connect/translate the two. You may not even need the GPS device. The whole thing would probably be a little bigger than a DVD player. Of course you'd probably have to change out the CDs based on the expected flight route.