it s an ultralight vehicle, and therefore you don t need a pilot licence. in uncontrolled airspace in the united states, you re welcome to fly the vehicle without having a pilot licence. the computers are keeping everything stable and you re essentially guiding it. so it s like a magic carpet ride. the company says it takes just 15 minutes to teach a novice how to use the controls. but, really, they say it takes up to two to three hours to learn all the relevant aviation rules. still pretty quick in the grand scheme of things. the vehicle is controlled and monitored via an interface which basically looks like a tablet. 700 feet still seems pretty high for a non pilot to fly independently, but the vehicle has built in safety features to try and make sure flights are fail safe. the idea is that each of the motors operates independent of the other. if something goes wrong in one, it does not affect the other. and the idea there is if something happens, the computer knows it and it says yo
which basically looks like a tablet. 700 feet still seems pretty high for a non pilot to fly independently, but the vehicle has built in safety features to try and make sure flights are fail safe. the idea is that each of the motors operates independent of the other. if something goes wrong in one, it does not affect the other. and the idea there is if something happens, the computer knows it and it says you need to land now. so you just pull back on the stick and it ll safely land you from the vehicle. the company is taking reservations for its aircraft and is planning to deliver 100 units this year. with a price tag of $150,000, it s still pretty inaccessible for most consumers. the target market, though, is a group of professionals you wouldn t normally expect to see in the air farmers. if it s early in your season and your crops are wet, you can t drive into the field,
brought the plane down. i spoke to folks who have flown this type of airline and they say it holds between four to six hours of fuel when it is loaded so that is matching up with the times that we re seeing. if it ran out of fuel and came down into the field, it would be rendered into a glider, both engines not operating, or maybe one operating, that would have turned into a tricky situation for a non-pilot. we don t know the identity of the person on board but we do know for afrillats that the pilot came out of the plane with his hands up and was detained. so this is possibly the best possible situation, the best possible outcome of all of this, sarah. this stolen airplane from the tupelo regional airport ending up in a farmer as field and nobody else hurt as well. that is, like you said, the
transponders of letting people know that there is a problem on board. still it is not enough. i delivered a commentary at the outset. it is hard for me as a non-pilot to come to terms with this because of the way i rely on technology on a day-to-day basis. why aren t they using the functions we get by day-to-day with? it goes back to sylvia s point. you are looking at the search area. those detection devices because what goes well in almost 100% of cases because people know and have a general idea of the crash site because of the flight plan and the rest of it. now that the search area is just expanded, you know, quadruple, it makes it difficult to pick up. if you look at the bottom of the ocean 3,000 miles away from the search point, it will be difficult to pick up.
talk to his team. the tape that could be the nail in the coffin for his career. that s not going go of very well. the agency in charge of cutting government costs makes a joke out of it in a new web video, this after it blew almost $1 million on a las vegas conference. a japanese ghost ship that was drifting off the coast of alaska now sleeps with the fishes. new video of the coast guard unloading the cannons on it. up first, it s the missing piece of the recovery, the critical jobs report for march is due out in about three and a half hours. a report with the potential to shake up the 2012 election. christine romans will tell us what we can expect today. christine? good morning. you re right it has the potential to shake up the election but more importantly we hope it shapes up your jobs prospects. this is the trend over the year. looking for in march 200,000 jobs created for the month. 200,000, an unemployment rate of 8.3 or 8.2%. i want to put it in context for you