meaning that when an airplane changes direction without notification the nearest airport should be able to disconnect all controls from the cockpit and put the plane in landing mode on that airport....if big enough it should be equiped to handle that....
2006-11-19 23:40:48 · 4 answers · asked by ljmuller 1 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
As a professional pilot, the thought of someone on the ground being able to take over my aircraft scares the heck out of me. For one, that just makes for another avenue for a terrorist to gain control of my aircraft. Heck, why bother with getting on the plane and dying when you can just hijack the "by-pass" system. Unfortunately, the only solution is controlling who and what is allowed on board. I agree, it is one major pain in the a$$ for everyone, and some of the regulations and procedures seem stupid. What most of the general flying public doesn't realize is that we're all on your side. We are committed to your safety and to those of your fellow passengers. We want to provide you the safest possible ride, and if that means that things have to tighten up a little once in a while to maintain that level of safety, so be it.
Give it some time, a lot of changes came about in a very short time after 9/11. Things will get more efficient as time passses and technology comes about.
So please on your next flight: get to the airport a little early, take off your shoes for the security guys, and buckle your seatbelt when I turn on the sign. Thank you..
2006-11-20 02:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by Captain C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't just "put the plane in landing mode." Landing a plane is a lot harder than that, and there's no "right" way to always land a plane. Lots of things including the direction of the wind at the destination airport affect landing; you need a human who is actually in the plane to decide what the best way to land is. Otherwise we would have no more pilots and everything would be on auto-pilot! So until they invent something that can either make decisions about the best way to land based on conditions seen/experienced at that moment in the sky, or something that will let the air traffic controllers experience the conditions as they are in the sky at that moment, there's no safe way to do this.
2006-11-20 11:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by dcgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-11-20 07:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they should
2006-11-20 07:51:27 · answer #4 · answered by jamesagambrell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋