Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140318:18:36:00
And communicate. you talk to people. >> how do you communicate if transponder acars not working. i'm throwing around terms like i'm a pilot. i'm not. suddenly we know about acars. when those systems go down, how do you communicate. >> navigation and maintenance, i'm talking about radios, telephone, smartphone. you pick it up and go mayday, mayday, mayday. >> does it work at that altitude? >> at 40,000 feet you can talk to the world. >> you're saying a pilot has a phone in the cockpit, if everything went down he could place a call. >> vhf, ultrahigh frequency. all he does is key his microphone ...
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