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I remember years ago an faa inspector that i worked with said that he gave a flight check to a then-twa pilot and he said that the pilot was so good that he must have had a flight simulator in his basement. and it actually turned out that he did have a flight simulator in his basement because he had a passion for aviation, he was consumed with aviation, and it was just something that he did. so i don't think we can read too much into the fact that this captain had a flight simulator. a lot of kids have flight simulators on their computers. this captain's was a little more extravagant because h...

Data recorder data, the radar data. that's the data that's recorded from the air traffic control radar system here in birmingham, and other data sources. then i'll speak to you about that in jauchust a moment. we'll be pulling all of these sources of data together to create a composite picture, a composite and accurate picture, of what happened. what happened to this airplane. i'd like to now turn our attention to the, to the airport itself. yesterday i mentioned that there was to be a flight check that we had hoped to get in, the faa would conduct a flight check of the airport navigational ai...