Gone is the jaundiced bulb that blinks on when a car door is opened, the one your parents warned had to stay off while the vehicle was in motion. In its stead? A veritable LED disco. Today the interior of nearly every battery-powered car is veined with lights in the dashboard, door frames, foot wells and ceiling.
that level of hours. you are talking about the startle effect. it s one of the issues that aviation authorities are very concerned about now. not only basic pilot handling skills, basic flying, if you like, but there is a general feeling by many that that has gone down. the startle effect. you are in the middle of the night. flying for 14 hours and all of a sudden the cockpit lights up like a christmas tree and alarms are ringing. that was a situation in 447. less likely in this one. it was a relatively short flight and congested between kuala lumpur and you had a relatively inexperienced first officer. the startle effect on the question of airmanship in those
to the side. how did he do that? two flight instructors were called to give the passenger impromptu lessons on how to fly and how to stay cool under pressure. one of those instructors, roy, is joining us now from england. good to have you on the phone with us. this is unbelievable. how were you able to do something like this, helping someone land a plane for the first time in the dark in. well, good morning. yes, it was quite difficult at the time. we had poor john had a very lot of things against him at the time because it was getting dusk. getting dark. we didn t know how much fuel was on board. because although i ve flown a cessna 172 hundreds of tiles, they re all a little bit different and john didn t know where the switches were for the lights, cockpit lights and things like that. he didn t want him to start looking round the cockpit and lose concentration on flying the airplane. so together with myself and the radar controller, he did a