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Pilot the Hero Theory ?

Over on Jeff Wise  a post by Buyerninety.

buyerninety
Posted June 2, 2016 at 11:44 AM
@Erik

I understand your reasoning in (the incapacitation) scenario you are evaluating – but perhaps try to put yourself more fully in pilot Shah’s shoes.

IGARI to VPG or VAMPI (or just offset from VPG or from VAMPI) – this is understandable as overflight of the Malay/Thai border takes you over a hilly/mountainous region with a proportionally lower density of population (and delivers your aircraft near to an airport in case you fix ‘whatever the problem was’, whilst finally overflying water in case ‘the problem overcame you’.

In THAT case, you may have programmed the autopilot to then direct the aircraft along the Straits and out into Ocean (instead of ‘programming nothing’ after VPL or VAMPI which exposes the risk the autopilot will simply onfly the aircraft past nearby VPG or VAMPI and on to overfly heavily populated Indonesia).

If programming to fly along the Straits from vicinity VPL or VAMPI, wouldn’t you choose next Waypoint to be such that there is no ‘established linking corridor’ from VPL or VAMPI to it i.e. so there’s least likeihood of your aircraft encountering other aircraft. (Or, if next possible waypoints all had established linking corridors, could you easily program a parallel but offset flightpath to the vicinity of the next waypoint?).

Following on with this intention in mind, (although I don’t suggest the intermediate waypoint(s) ), I would suggest that the waypoint at the final turn south, must be a waypoint whereat, if the autopilot onflys from that waypoint (either onwards to another more southerly waypoint or on a definate programmed heading south), there must be thereafter no overflight of land.

Cheers