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I would love to hear a sequence of events that could possibly involve a pilot attempting to land on the basis of information from an iPhone map. There's whole
by patrickk 14y ago
I would love to hear a sequence of events that could possibly involve a pilot attempting to land on the basis of information from an iPhone map.
There's whole emergency systems in place to ensure things like this don't happen- you know, basic radio contact with the ground being one obvious example.
Irish Government ministers should be dealing with our sovereign debt crisis rather than spouting crap about stuff they've no idea about.
- barrkel 14y agoThere is already a post on this thread about similar events already having occurred - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550431 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550431
- _djo_ 14y agoDidn't see any reliance on a maps app for emergency navigation. In the one example the pilots printed out an image from Google Earth as a guide to the terrain of the landing area, they still used their eyes and brains to decide how to land once they got there. In the other they used the app to locate street addresses, but that wasn't critical navigation and the same could've been achieved with a standard street map. I have yet to hear of any pilot relying on a maps app like Google Maps in an emergency.