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He about 18.5 thousand miles of experience. this is from you tube from social media. it shows that the captain had a flight simulator built in his home, not a full motion simulator, but he was an avid flyer and he adored it according to everything that we have read about him. this particular video had nothing to do with flying, but he chose to do it in front of his simulator. the core thing to bear in mind, he was an extremely senior captain in the malaysian 777 fleet. one of the reasons he was ...

Safely. that is your job. being in a simulator is throwing as much as they can to you and show you the characteristics of an aircraft when things are not going right. whether it is hydrawlic or landing year. it teaches you the characteristics of the airplane and how to handle the situation. >> captain, can you talk to me about what can happen at 37,000 feet if something goes down quickly? >> i am curous to know what impact it might hit the water at? >> well, if you, airports dont yscow. i think ...

Training up to captain standards. what he meant is that before meade got into the right-hand seat of a 777, he had certainly spent many weeks and months in the simulator as he transitioned from a smaller jet to a large wide bodied. >> so richard, lets talk about the fact that the plane is now missing with this crew onboard. if its believed the plane went off radar somewhere between an hour and two hours after takeoff, how will that help investigators, whether it be the arsenal in the air or in t...

Control. nine people dead so far in clashes today. imagine traveling the world and getting paid for it. that could soon become your reality as american airlines announces its looking to hire some 1500 pilots over the next five years. this time around american is instituting standards requiring pilots from 1500 flight experience up from 250. so in 2012 boeing projected pilots would be needed in the next decade. entry level pay from $20 to $25,000 a year. casey siegel joins us from the flight ac...

And this is the latest controversy. the air forces top civilian official says the entire force of 600 members will have been retested by the end of the day today. lea gabe grill, a form navy aviator. >> the air force has a written proficiency test given to missile launch officers monthly, but a senior official tells me the officers are tested month in the simulator were showing you. this simulator is where theyre tested, their knowledge of the practical application, and the retired general says ...

Of things that could go wrong in the ejection, thats what well be looking at in the future. >> you had to practice ejections, im assuming during the course of your training. describe that. >> you actually never practice ejecting. you do it in a simulator. it didnt give you all the effects of what ejection is actually like. you pull the handle so that you have kind of gone through that motion before, so that its something thats not unusual if you ever have to actually eject. but fortunately, i ne...

After a rookie mistake. they missed their missouri airport by seven miles sunday. the pilots did however slam on the brakes they realized they were on a shorter run way. that was critical. in 2014 how easy is it to land on the wrong run way? pamela brown took matters into her own hands, got this a simulator to find out. >> i learned a lot. i have more respect for pilots i have to say. we wanted to see what was like for pilots trying to make a visual landing at night. i found out how much precisi...

About leaving engineers alone, and one expert i talked to was very concerned about that. >> theres hundreds of trains as we speak that are running up and down the tracks with one person in the cab of the locomotive, and unfortunately, were only human. >> so he says were only human, chris, but what can be done to prevent the kind of -- what shall we call it, engineer futeelf fatig fatigue, that might have cause, might have caused the derailment over the weekend? >> when i spoke to dave at the aca...

Daze, was he nodding off, or did he have in the words of his lawyer, highway hypnosis? whatever the case here, and theyll figure it out, the accident raises concerns about the dangers of drowsiness while operating any kind of vehicle, especially something so complex as a train. so many passengers lives at stake. so joining me now is cnns chris freights, and this is so amazing because you have this unique ability. you went to railroad engineer training school. you sat in the simulator to see what...

There. iran will implement the agreement some time next month. israel calls that deal with iran bad for the world. our key ally in the middle east says its not bound by the agreement and it will act alone if necessary to keep tehran from building a nuclear bomb. a state of the art simulator that gives israels air force a new way to train their people like never before. we go behind the scenes with an unprecedented look at this technology. >> reporter: each time an israeli air force f-16 takes of...