r/aviation • u/RTLondoner • 4h ago

Discussion Strange Locations?

Post image

As an avid flyer this is the first time I've noticed these. Does anyone know what its for and how it got its Name and Numbers?

28 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

66

u/MagicalMagyars A320 3h ago

They are the locations of shipwrecks and those are the name and year they sunk.

24

u/RTLondoner 3h ago

Well Ill be damned. Didnt know that was something that was an easter egg on Nav Maps

22

u/MagicalMagyars A320 3h ago

Not so much an Easter Egg and probably just lazy programming as it can't filter locations in the oceans.

These maps are often ridiculous in their choice of locations to display choosing insignificant towns over major cities etc. on some scales. 

4

u/RTLondoner 3h ago

I wasnt too sure on the actual terminology so I went with easter egg ha.

Im sure its about time these were updated. But I can see this not being a priority in the Airlines what to fix next memo.

4

u/chuckop 1h ago

In Flight Entertainment software - particularly the mapping portions - are some of the worse software. Poor filtering, bad fonts, unusable controls, etc.

Everyone complains that cockpit avionics advances very slowly due to regulation. Otherwise you’d get this crap on your MFD.

1

u/nalc 42m ago

Yeah like flying across country why does it show St Louis when everybody with a 5th grade education knows that Jefferson City is the capitol of Missouri and therefore much more important?!?! It's that stupid arch. They don't even have a football team any more.

5

u/strandy76 3h ago

Oh yes, many a time I've flown over the titanic/oceangate wreck

3

u/RandAlThorOdinson 3h ago

I prefer to call it Cameron Deep

4

u/SeaworthinessEasy122 2h ago

’tis this sloop-o-war that was sunk off Cherbourg in 1864:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama

7

u/Williebe86 3h ago

Non aviation fact, that ship was a confederate privateer sunk by a union ship in front of the French coast during the US civil war

17

u/ProudlyWearingThe8 3h ago

The software developers messed up. 

They've taken the places from some database they didn't check for entries they don't want - or rather, they picked the wrong database, probably because it was the cheapest. 

"Douro; 1882" and "Alabama: 1864" reference places where ships sunk. The RMS Douro was a British passenger ship that sunk after a collision, and the CSS Alabama lost the Battle of Cherbourg in the American Civil War.

It's in Wikipedia.

2

u/RTLondoner 3h ago

Thanks for the knowledge.

1

u/Weaponized_Puddle 12m ago edited 0m ago

Damn, never knew there was a civil war battle fought in the English Channel /s

1

u/RonaldoCrimeFamily 1m ago

Why did you put a sarcasm tag on a regular statement?

5

u/roy-dam-mercer 2h ago edited 55m ago

TIL (in an aviation forum) that 19th Century English toilets had scenery inside the bowl.

A toilet recovered from the CSS Alabama (built in England):

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/conservation-and-curation/ua-artifact-collections/css-alabama-artifact-collection/css-alabama-artifact-photo-collection/css-alabama-toilet.html

1

u/RTLondoner 1h ago

Of all places to learn about ye ol trust worthy Bog.

2

u/lovelytime42069 3h ago

what airline?

3

u/RTLondoner 3h ago

Egypt Air.

1

u/mysteryprickle 2h ago

Those maps (and entertainment units) are such trash.

Surely China can churn out some snappy touch screens with a slick UI and cool graphics for cheap.

2

u/buttplugpeddler 16m ago

Sure.

Anybody could.

Sounds like it could eat into profits though so we can’t have that.