1. The airport has no radar nor instrument landing system and planes are guided in by radio beacon. 2. Captain Shelton guided his plane down the runway and took off. 3. And air traffic controllers are struggling to efficiently guide planes through increasingly crowded skies. 4. And when visibility falls to zero, they can guide the planes down a narrow pathway in the sky toward a landing. 5. Airline pilots can already use these signals to guide planes over oceans and other wide-open spaces. 6. FANS uses satellite signals to guide planes more precisely and lets pilots and controllers shuttle flight data back and forth on digital links. 7. Glick and other passengers decided to rush the cockpit where the terrorists were guiding the plane toward Washington, perhaps with the White House in their sights. 8. Pilots then guide their planes to the ground. 9. The most prominent complaint about procurement involves the need to upgrade the aged equipment that air traffic controllers use to track and guide planes. 10. The only thing connecting him to the machine is a set of electrodes attached to his head and he is using nothing but brain waves to guide the plane. |