Lena settled into the left-hand seat. The leather was cool, familiar. She reached out, not to flip a switch, but to invite the invisible audience to look. Her gloved hand swept across the main instrument panel.
"To my left," she said, "the side stick." Her fingers brushed the controller, small as a video game joystick but weighted with the force of 250 tons. "Fly-by-wire. You don't fight this airplane. You persuade it. You tell it where you want the mass to go, and it decides the best way to get there." Airbus A330 Cockpit 360 View
Then she turned her head. The motion was slow, deliberate, a conductor inviting the string section. Lena settled into the left-hand seat
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. Her gloved hand swept across the main instrument panel