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FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour
Mark Hickey writes:
It's important to remember that the would-be pilot/savior would have tremendous motivation to get it right the first time. Yes. That could help or hurt, depending on the personality of the individual. When thinking through that scenario, I always pictured having three or four people in the cockpit - each with a limited job that they'd be walked through by an expert on the radio... maybe each with a cell phone connecting them to individual team members on the ground. Then it's just up to those experts on the ground to talk each of them through about 1/4 of the process of getting the plane on the ground in one piece (as opposed to making a flawless landing on the numbers). That seems unnecessarily complicated. Especially with automation, as long as the person in the left seat can push a button, turn a dial, and move a lever, he can land the plane--provided also that he can follow simple instructions on the radio. |
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