Heading Knob News Today

How many commercial flights are there around the world every day? 40,000 or so. and over the past 25 years, how many airplanes have gone missing? i can think of one. there are practical questions -- >> and we mentioned, there have been a fewer number of crashes this year than weve seen since 1927. so it is important to keep the bigger picture perspective. lets ask another question here. this is from john. he asks can pilots override traffic control amiss imminent danger? >> absolutely. in this p...

Its definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseball player tell his wife ...

Got in and initiated it. its definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseb...

Emergency on board. >> richard, thats what raises questions that the co-pilot didnt say anything about it when he did communicate. >> whats interesting here about what were seeing from the flight deck here is this 12 minutes, anderson. because deduct 12 minutes from the last known "all right, good night," and you get into roughly the time when the last acars message would have been sent. so a question for you, martin and mitchell in the flight simulator, if either by the heading knob or by the f...

The fact that because the plane changed course dramatically that it necessarily means sinister intent. it does look rather odd, though, that youve got a plan in there and you say rather calmly all right good night, that doesnt sound like youre youve got an emergency on board. >> richard, thats what raises questions that the co-pilot didnt say anything about it when he did communicate. >> whats interesting here about what were seeing from the flight deck here is this 12 minutes, anderson. because...

Minutes, anderson. because deduct 12 minute s minu the last known all right good night and you get into roughly the time when the last acars message would have been sent. so a question for you, martin and mitchell in the flight simulator, if either by the heading knob or by the flight management system a route change was made, would that have been sent out on acars or would the ground have been informed? mitchell, what do you think? >> i dont think it would have, richard. i think that unless you...

Detail -- >> ill get us in the air rather than taking the time to take off. were -- lets just -- >> how unusual would it be for actual pilots to fool around in a piece of software like this. >> i think its a little odd if youre flying the real think. i can bank and do that stuff. heres the real key. youre not going to learn how to fly flying one of these but you can learn the systems. the autopilot. if youre flying as this plane was likely on autopilot, if you want to steer the airplane, you don...