She faced forward again. Through the windshield, she could see the terminal, the fuel truck, the rain streaking down the glass. But she was seeing something else. The cloud layer over the Bay of Bengal at sunrise. The northern lights, green and silent, off the coast of Iceland. A lightning storm over the Atlantic, illuminating the void like a strobe light.
She wasn't here to fly. She was here to test a new training tool: a 360-degree camera rig, mounted on the dead pedal beside her seat. Airbus A330 Cockpit 360 View
She imagined thousands of eyes seeing what she saw: the crisp, synthetic vision of the world rendered in green and blue lines. The technician was silent; the camera's tiny red light was her only audience. She faced forward again