Aeronautical Engineer says Official 9/11 Story Not Possible

Hi John;

This is correct as far as I know anyway. Investigators concluded, and indeed
what I saw personally confirm that during the final stage of the descent
curve on the second plane at least, the airplane was being flown manually
with the AP disengaged. The first plane might have been on AP as the flight
path was within the cutout parameters, but even there, the educated guess is
that Ata disengaged the AP for the final approach to the building.
This was the general assumption based on the aircraft behavior, plus
investigative results that indicated a common plan for the mission was in
place for both "pilots" in both aircraft.
Dudley Henriques

"John Carrier" wrote in message
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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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AUTOPILOT

Not. Autopilot is great for basic straight and level. Maneuvering for a
building collision would require hand flying the jet.

R / John

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"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"TRUTH" wrote in message
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| http://physics911.net/sagadevan.htm
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| The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training
| by Nila Sagadevan

This turd-brain has been trolling the engineering/construction newsgroups
for months.

He's been refuted at every turn, but contines to spew his ignorant drivel.

Nila Sagadevan appears to be more or less what he claims, but he also
apparently went off the rails a couple of decades ago, writing books
about odd religious experiences and such. Major conspiracy and
alt-religion nut.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:18:15 GMT, Dave Stadt wrote:

"John Carrier" wrote in message
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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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AUTOPILOT

Not. Autopilot is great for basic straight and level. Maneuvering for a
building collision would require hand flying the jet.

Not if they were able to put lat. and long. of the WTC into the GPS and have
the autopilot fly to that location.

The Boeing 767s that hit the WTC used an inertial navigation system, not
GPS. INS systems in 1980s-vintage airliners are accurate to within about
1/10th of a nautical mile, or approximately 600 feet. The INS would not be
accurate enough to guarantee that the autopilot could steer the aircraft
into a target about 200 feet wide like one of the WTC towers.

Hand-flying an airliner into a building you can see from 30 miles away
or more (I personally have seen the WTC towers on a clear day from a small
plane flying over northeast Philadelphia) wouldn't be that difficult, though,
so there's no reason to assume that the 9/11 hijackers didn't hand-fly the
planes into their targets.


ljd