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This fully functioning flight simulator would be placed at the front of airplanes. The main door would only connect to the crew area. The door to the real cockpit would be elsewhere. Non-pilots in pilot uniforms would be stationed there. Anyone attempting to hijack the aircraft would find himself in
the fake cockpit where he would be free to believe himself in control of the situation.
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I have been in a commercial jet simulator, and although the
graphics are good, they would not fool anyone looking out the
window. |
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Hmm...do the scenery mechanically? Cotton wool
clouds on wires, driven by an array of variable speed
endless belts. |
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The fundamental problem is depth perception. Even with one
eye closed, you can still notice the difference between
looking at a picture of a cloudscape 6ft from your nose, and
looking at a real cloudscape with things from 50 to 5000 yards
away. With two eyes, your depth perception is more acute
and it's very difficult to fool you. What if one of the terrorists
is short-sighted, and suddenly realizes that the supposedly
distant features are not blurry? |
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Why even have a door into the cockpit on any plane? No door = no one being able to do anything to the crew or passengers that gets that door open as there is no door to get open in the first place. Once this is adopted on all planes there won't be any more hijackings as they simply become impossible to achieve. |
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//Why even have a door into the cockpit on any plane? No
door =// |
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<Has visions of hijackers with ice picks & climbing spikes
(on
the boots) crawling along the outside of a 747 toward the
pilots door mid-flight/> |
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Or they can smuggle an angle grinder made of non-metallic
materials onto the plane in their hand luggage to cut
through the dividing wall with. |
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All the useful parts of the plane tend to be behind the
cockpit, so there must be wiring they can compromise to
take direct control of the engines & wing flaps etc if they
have the schematics. |
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[xen] Your idea would seem to limit
hijackings to the suicidally brave (climbing from the
passenger door to the cockpit door mid-flight) or far far
better
technically educated hijackers though. |
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<Wonders why commercial airlines haven't adopted this?/> |
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The final 10 foot to the cockpit is secretly a carpet
laid conveyor belt, which can be spun up (away from
the cockpit) to 60mph at the first signs of "rushing the
cockpit" activities. |
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Option teflon coating on the walls/ceiling to the
approach. |
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