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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere did CNN get that simulator tech schmo
with the scraggly facial hair and ratty plaid shirt who's supposed to be an "expert" on the 777? Couldn't they have at least cleaned him up a little bit? And couldn't they have found somebody who actually knows what he's talking about? He was nattering on about some asymmetric thrust compensating system that wouldn't have worked without electrical power, which was the actual scenario they've been talking about? I will give Anderson Cooper credit for not asking the same kind of blazingly stupid questions Don Lemon came up with (black holes and shit), but they are beating this thing to death and they are running out of stuff to talk about.
Oh, well, at least is isn't FAUX "News" with Bill Hemmorhoid talking about how it took 2000 years to find Noah's Ark.
mn9driver
(4,423 posts)The non stop parade of idiots with theories on the teevee is really something. No wonder we are such a poorly informed nation.
It's the logical extension of the media's false equivalence way of presenting everything. Every half assed nut job with an opinion on something they know nothing about is given airtime, while people who actually know the subject and aren't nuts are ignored because facts are boring.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)but I don't know where they got a 777 sim to play with (probably paid somebody a bunch of money to borrow one). They should have cleaned the guy up a bit before putting him on the air; he can't be an airline pilot with all that skeevy facial hair. It's a mixed bag - to be fair, some of the talking heads are actually pretty good (they also had a retired NWA guy who did know what he was talking about) but there is an insatiable demand for information and there isn't any, so they just keep talking.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)There is little to no info in the tainment. Resistance is futile.
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)when you run out of things to say you just can't show cartoons
you gotta come up with something else
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)It's a fixed base simulator at a flight school in Canada. And the scruffy guy in the left seat isn't qualified in the 777.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/20/malaysia_airlines_mississauga_flight_simulator_stars_on_cnn.html
But I suppose none of the airlines wanted to let CNN in their sims.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)They should have these guys......
This guy is an air traffic controller and private pilot who owns an airplane:
made from plywood:
closer to what the Malaysian pilot had: