> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://seat-airlines.gitbook.io/seat-airlines-docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://seat-airlines.gitbook.io/seat-airlines-docs/how-it-flies/the-sky.md). # The sky outside Your own time of day and your local weather, with no location permission. The market flies the aircraft; the sky is simply the sky. It is the one thing on the page that has nothing to do with the token. ## Time of day — your clock The sun's height is worked out properly for today's date and your approximate position, from your device's own clock. The cabin is dark at midnight in Sydney and golden at 7pm in Lisbon, and the horizon glows in the right place either way. This needs no network and always works. The **Outside** reading under the view names the light: *Night*, *Before dawn*, *Dawn*, *Golden hour*, *Daylight* or *Dusk*. ## Weather — where you are Current weather comes from [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com/), a free public weather service. Your position is estimated from your browser's **time zone** rather than by asking for your location, so you are never shown a location permission prompt — close enough for a sky, and it costs you nothing. The weather reads as *Clear*, *Scattered cloud*, *Overcast*, *Fog*, *Rain*, *Snow* or *Thunderstorms*. ## The country below The ground is always going past — that movement is the one thing that says the aircraft is flying, so it never stops, and asking your device for reduced motion halves the banking and softens the sway without parking the aeroplane. Every few minutes the flight crosses a coast: a long leg over farmland — fields, hedgerows, orchards, a river with its tributaries, towns that light up through dusk — then a shorter one over open water, with swell, current lines and the glint of the sun, and ships under way — freighters, tankers, ferries, trawlers and yachts, each trailing its wake, with navigation lights after dark. Every view crosses the same coastline at the same moment, cockpit and cabin windows included. The land is not flat: it rolls, with woods on the high ground and the river and lakes down in the valleys, and the hills travel past with the fields on them. For a few kilometres round the aircraft the country stands up in three dimensions — spruce and fir plantations on the high ground, oak and birch in the low woods, lone oaks along the hedgerows, orchard rows, poplars lining the river and the roads out of town, and houses, barns and town blocks along asphalt streets, whose windows light up after dark. Every half-minute or so the aircraft banks gently into a turn — right, level, then back left — and from outside you can watch it happen: the wings tip, the nose swings into the turn and lifts a couple of degrees to hold the height, the ailerons work, the rudder swings into the turn and the elevators come up. ## After dark At night the aircraft is lit the way a real one is: the sky no longer lights it, a little moonlight catches the top of the fuselage, and the airliner's own lights do the rest. * **The windows** glow along the cabin, warm with the cabin's light, and throw a little of it onto the wing root. A few are warmer where somebody has a reading light on. * **Navigation lights** stay on steadily: red on the left wingtip, green on the right, white on the tail. Each is seen only from its own side, as on a real aircraft. * **Strobes** flash white at both wingtips and the tail in the double flash an Airbus uses, lighting up the wingtip each time. * **Beacons** pulse red on the top of the fuselage and under the belly, taking turns, and wash the skin around them red. * **Logo lights** in the tailplane light the mark on the fin from below. Inside, the crew dims the cabin for the night. The lights come down through dusk, the ceiling turns a calm blue, the blinds stop glowing with daylight, and most reading lights go off. The seat-back screens and the aisle strips become what you see, as on a real night flight. The windows you see from outside show that same dimmed cabin, so the two views always agree. 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