Flight Deck or Cockpit?

Concorde had a flight compartment!:D

Bri

Possibly Paul, but I’ve never heard of Vulcans or any other large military types such as B-52s etc calling the office anything other than cockpit.

Dad always said it was a flightdeck if you could walk into it, a cockpit if you climbed into it. So the Vulcan seems to fit flightdeck!

Here’s a thread debating the same topic on PPRuNe.

I wish “my” ( :diablo: ) Vulcan had a busy flight deck, it would mean we’d completed about 2-3years of work 😀

I kind of understand that Spock and was thinking the same, it is a usage difference for me, ie you can go into the cockpit and witness a busy flight deck.

I’m sure there is an existing thread on this debate, but darned if I can find it.

I’ll give my Vulcan as an example for the way I use the terms – i’ll invite visitors to go into the cockpit, then ask them if they would like to climb up the ladder onto the flight deck to sit in the pilot’s seats.

Might be right, might be wrong but its whatever seems to sound right to you.:rolleyes:

I always thought that the term ‘Flight Deck’ originated with large Flying Boats and have never thought of it as an americanism…the term seems to suit Airliners anyway 🙂

I cannot support my own usage with any statistics but throughout my “aviation life” until relatively recently the pilot’s “office” was the cockpit. My sense is that I became more used to flight deck with the americanisation of the descriptions. Although your quotation disproves that theory. Even in US parlance flight deck does not describe the “office” in a fast jet, does it?