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Jeanette Huerta graduated from Elk Grove High School in 2015. Several years later, after a disappointing freshman year at college, two separate yearlong stints with the Army National Guard — including a deployment to Kuwait — and finishing her bachelor’s degree at a second college, Huerta says she started to “self-reflect.” What did she really want to do with her life?
Malaysia situation-right? >> also the pilots would have known what happened to air france. what happened to air france was a lesson to the whole industry and pilots flying on auto systems, sometimes really can't -- don't have the flying ability that pilot inside the old days had to hand-fly the airplane. this airplane, what happens when the pitot static system ices over the auto systems stop working and the pilots now have to deal with an emergency that is a surprise and that could have happened here. >> the air france disaster did bring about changes in training. >> it did. training and impro...
User friendly. pfs designed by pilots for pilots. as i've said before the auto systems are -- they're fantastic. what they can be very simple to operate. i could, for example, take this gps, set a court, pick up a bearing, say it's 300 degrees, rotate the heading select to 300 degrees, press the button. now the plane is flying at 300 degrees. i can do that on any airplane on earth. i don't have to be familiar with the airplane. i have to know that the airplane has an auto pilot, that the airplane has a heading select and i've got this gps that can take me -- as long as the airplane has fuel i ...
Weather conditions were good. the only problem with modern aircraft is the incredible sophisticated of the auto system. and the auto systems can rob a pilot of basic airmanship skills and the pilot may not realize that these skills have been diminished because of an overreliance on the auto system. so paradoxically, a visual landing in wonderful weather conditions is probably more of a challenge to an average 777 pilot than an instrument landing. on the instruments, the plane is flying itself or the pilot is flying on electronic cues. so it is something the ntsb is going to take a hard look at...