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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 don't think it would have, richard. i think that unless you actually made the turn -- if you entered it, i don't think so. i think if you made the turn obviou...

Detail -- >> i'll get us in the air rather than taking the time to take off. we're -- let's just -- >> how unusual would it be for actual pilots to fool around in a piece of software like this. >> i think it's a little odd if you're flying the real think. i can bank and do that stuff. here's the real key. you're not going to learn how to fly flying one of these but you can learn the systems. the autopilot. if you're flying as this plane was likely on autopilot, if you want to steer the airplane, you don't have to get in, you simply start moving this heading knob and in ffs on autopilot, it wou...