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Theres a fire, decompression, you want the plane back to safe harbor, airport behind you, is that something a pilot would do in those circumstances, turn the heading, get headed back in a direction, safer direction? >> thats absolutely correct. the plane at that point in our case would have been on autopilot. fire, decompression. youre donning the mask, getting down and getting to the nearest airport immediately. you would do that using heading bug. asking for vector, mayday, mayday, my day, hav...