From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 19:03:19 MDT
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/22/2002 5:13:22 PM Central Standard Time,
> mlorrey@yahoo.com writes: Since I was the one who said that, not
> Eugene, I
> will answer the question.
>
> Thanks Mike, I glad we cleared that up.
> 1. I remember in the old TV1 (isn't that the Navy version of the
> F-81) we required a fair amount of time just getting used to the
> gentler touch required to fly the jet. I well remember trying to
> make approach turns and the exactitude required to maintain
> altitude on the one hand and stay out of
> an approach turn stall on the other. Me and my buddies all wallowed
> around quite abit. In the link trainers earlier, where we got
> used to this, a lot of us crashed and burned. Fortunately in a
> Link you get to repeat the
> experience. I definitely crashed once and I think twice -- that was
> in doing an approach turn.
Technology has advanced quite a bit since those days. Realistic
computer based flight simulators like X-Plane, which are FAA certified
for ground school and sim-training, provide even more accurate realism
than any simulator outside of an encapsulation simulator (those multi
million dollar gizmos on actuators) but if you are willing to spend the
bucks, X-Plane can even be used with commercially available actuation
seats and force feedback flight controls to provide near perfect
simulation. I suggest those interested in looking into this go to
www.x-plane.com for more info, or www.flightsimmers.com.
I am actually surprised that none of the security professionals
squawking on the idiot box has made any kind of a public stink about
how easy it is for people to learn to fly 'big iron' like 747 and other
aircraft on the computer these days. The next wave of al Qaeda
hijackers are not training in training centers like those of the first
wave. They are learning to fly on their home PCs with software like
X-Plane.
> I am making a big point of this because if I am sitting in the
> back of
> a plane occupying a passengers seat it would be the dickens to check
> attitude
> and heading by looking out the side window. I don't know of any
> reason to
> suppose that that I would have airspeed, altitude, power settings,
> etc.
> displayed on my lap top computer.
All flight control and instrument data is transmitted to the Flight
Data Recorder located in the tail along dorsal spine circuits (i.e.
easily accessible from the passenger compartment).
> I am not the greatest pilot in the world
> but if you want me to drive this bird my first manuever will be to
> deploy the
> Passenger Escape Slide while we are still on the ground and bug out.
Thats what computer flight sims are all about.
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