they turn out over the water, once you get 200 to 300 miles offshore, there is no radar. airplanes are not typically under radar control once they are out 200 or 300 miles over the ocean. that radar starts jent generally within 200 or 300 miles of reaching land. at that point the land based radar picks up up. once you are out over the water there is no radar. typically any radar system is as good as the equipment, which many times in these countries equipment is not as sophisticated as it is in the united states. and the radar controller. and any land based radar has blackout spots behind mountains, behind hills that the radar would not paint. i mean, in listening to you, jesse, you have got to get lucky that you can get those blackout spots so you can be a certain distance, some level of skill and knowledge in order accomplish it. can t blindly fly and hope
now moments ago senior u.s. intelligence officials told nbc news that the nation s spy satellites have found no evidence of an in-flight explosion. jim tillman is a former pilot and aviation expert. you heard the malaysian defense minister saying there s no confusion at all. do you agree that assessment? i can t believe he s said that. he s obviously not hearing what i m hearing or seeing what i m seeing. it s full of confusion. how shocking is it that the confusion is over where the plane was? they don t even seem clear on the trajectory of the flight. is that unusual? yes, it s unusual. i mean, what was going on on the ground? were they looking at radar? was the radar return giving them anything? and i ve been hearing things about the transponders being turned off which would not give full data to the ground as to what the airplane was doing and all that sort of thing. if it was turned off, okay, then you ve lost some of your radar
it appears they are now doing just that. among the changes, that we can see, nine hours between shifts for any one controller and no swapping of shifts will be allowed. they can have long weekends. and so they can have long weekends and managers will have to be present at late hours and early hours and there will be hand-off procedures between the regional radar control and individual control towers and, on fox news sunday, secretary lahood, again, expressed his anger over this. here he is: i have been in this job two-and-a-half years and i don t know when i have been madder and i m outraged about this and want the flying public to know we are doing everything we can 24/7, to correct this problem. reporter: what remains unclear at this point is whether the faa will allow napping for controllers, during those long afternoon shifts, and, during their break time and is something that is done in other countries and scientific studies show it is valuable for people who work on weird s
any one individual controller. no swapping of shifts. managers will now be on duty during the late night and early a.m.s, and there is also a new hand-off procedure between the regional radar control and the local control tower. but but change that the f.a.a. did not make, shep, they are not going to allow, as you just suggested, for sanctioned napping for those controllers on the overnight shift. shepard: they wanted sanctioned napping like at times when jets weren t landing or something? exactly. that s what they wanted. we have spoken to one nationally recognized sleep expert who said you really should provide this kind of thing. he called these changes as they are presently constructed woefully inadequate. taking a nap in the middle of the shift, even for a short period of time will help promote enough alertness to keep them going throughout the rest of the shift. that option, obviously a no starter for the f.a.a. big wigs. here they are.
to the outskirts where the government forces are lined up. this is the most massive display of military force of moammar gadhafi s army we ve seen since we ve been here. multiple rocket launchers, multiple tanks, artillery pieces, radar control, weapons systems, multiple soldiers, hundreds, possibly several thousand. multiple dozens upon dozens of large, heavy trucks, full of ammunition, ammunition for ak-47 to large tanks. the soldiers feel confident. the government feels confident. there was a real anticipation in the air of those soldiers on the outskirts today. there were other government troops skirmishing with rebels we were being told. but the troops told us they ve had ten days of games. they feel very confident. they say the only thing that s holding them up is that the rebels inside the city are in civilian buildings and they say, and we have no way of independently confirming this,