Some of them do.

Why not in addition to as opposed to instead of?

I love to have a window seat and just can't take my eyes off the landscape below. It's so amazing to see the plan of farms and cities, the aquaducts and rivers, the crinkled mountains deserts and coastline. Sometimes you can see the shadow of your own plane trace along the ground. Try to guess which lake this is. I guess a night flight is boring.

One of the coolest experiences of my life was flying back to Portland from Chicago at night. Somewhere along the way, I looked out the window and off in the distance I noticed a lightning storm over a town. It was surreal how much lower the storm was than we were flying, and watching the lightning bolts branch out from the clouds to spread all over the place was just incredible.

I don't fly often, so maybe that's more common than I realize, but I thought it was pretty awesome.

They did on one flight I was on. You could choose from a number of different cameras around the plane and watch the view. Short of take-off and landing, it was pretty dull.

I just want to sleep and get it over with. Flying has become hellish for me . Everything sucks. The cost, the lineups, the hassle of security, the delays, the price of a bottle of water, the horrible service, the discomfort...

Most people don't care. I seem to be the only passenger on the entire flight that looks out the window. Idk why people are so indifferent to the amazing things in their lives, but they are.

Some planes and carriers have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzAcWff7nU

It costs money though, so you usually only see them on more premium carriers and larger planes.

I'm working from memory here, but I think there was an instance where there was a crash or some incident where people could see it happening on the cameras though... and it's not ideal having everyone in the plane panicking because they're going to die.

Sometimes there's a map, but I wish it had landmarks. Is that cluster of lights in the distance Chicago or Salt Lake? Sorry, the map only shows the origin and destination cities.

I remember international flights that had several outside cameras, one looking slightly down and forward was the best by far, although most of the flight it was just clouds and during landing that one turned to face forward so you couldn't see the runway. Haven't seen them recently though.

I’ve often fantasized about a 360 cam mounted on the tip of the vertical stabilizer, and then the crew can offer VR headsets that put you “in” the 360 lookout. It’d be like flying while sitting on top of the plane! Cool even in clouds / inclement weather. Could even stream those feeds to the public for cheap tours of the skies. Would be extra interesting during landing and takeoff, I think. Maybe have a few cams around the plane. Bottom, top, each wing, cockpit, etc.

Emirates do this, there is a choice of three cameras.

Last.flight I was on had exactly that and several other views from a virtual plane in out virtual location over a 3d virtual earth. Would have been neat but I think it cost me 3-4" of leg room lol

What's even the point of having a view from the cockpit if I can't drive the plane? Forget the crappy movies and games, if you truly want me to not be bored just stream to me control over the flight console.

I mean that sounds cool but that would get boring pretty quickly.

Definitely would be cool on takeoff and landing.

Makes me miss the trains that had on board entertainment that allowed you to steam a camera feed from the front of the train

Emirates does this, at least on theor A380s.

And as someone said, apart from takeoff and landing, it's pretty boring.

There is absolutely fucking nothing to see at 40,000 ft.

They do

Air France offers this feature at least on international flights.

Done airlines give you outside views, but shoot with potatoes. So it's better not having that. Also there is nothing to see at most of the cruise height.

Honestly that's fucking brilliant. It should be an option of course, not the default, but definitely would be really cool for those who want it.

I can already see the nothing and clouds out the side window. You think the front is gonna be different? At least you can also look down below out of the side windows. You can't really look at the ground from the cockpit. Well, I mean... You can, but it's not very fun because you have to point the nose of the plane down.

It's basically just a windows desktop background.