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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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I always carry a hand held GPS when on overwater flights. You cannot depend on the ships electronics to get you home, and I WILL make it home.
That said, Airbus puts everything in electronics and everything depends on computers and so on. Boeing does not and lets the pilots be more of a controlling agent than Airbus. There are systems on the Airbus that can actually over-rule the pilots and frankly this is pure BS in my silly mind. We can see the situation and think about it, but thats not what they want.
"If it aint Boeing, then I aint going!"
Joe A
PS no one seems to have remembered the ELT. This communicates with satellites ANYWHERE in the world and its powered by itself, not ships power. Why didnt it signal something? Wonder if the airplane is sitting on its belly on a beach on the Western coast of Morocco?
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