that were necessary, the way-points for this aircraft to go from kuala lumpur to beijing. every turn, every aspect of that flight would be here. however, once in the air you could alter it. you could change it in fact, mitchell, you can point out how simply that s done. very easily, martin. this magenta line here indicates the path that the aircraft is on to its destination. this white triangle is the aircraft. we re pretty much next to our route here. that triangle is us. all i need to do to change my route, i need to know where i want to go. i enter that information in the computer here with the keypad. and then i enter it into the flight plan itself. then it tells me i would show here i punched one in at the database. it would show me a line. then i would execute that and i would do the turn. so it s very simple. let me ask you, martin, how quickly would a turn be executed after entering it into this? or is it just is one not
night management system? how complicated a process is it? reporter: well, if you know what you re doing it s pretty easy. let me point it out to you, show and tell here. this is the flight management system. one of the consoles here. actually three of them right in front of us. but this thing does a lot of things on this airplane. it primarily makes the job of flying for the pilot and co-pilot easier. think of it really in this sense as a gps, really beefed-up gps. prior to takeoff you would have loaded in all the coordinates that were necessary, the waypoints for this aircraft to go from kuala lumpur to beijing. every turn, every aspect of that flight would be here. however, once in the air you could alter it. you could change it in fact, mitchell, you can point out how simply that s done. very easily, martin. this magenta line here indicates the path that the aircraft is on to its destination. this white triangle is the aircraft. we re pretty much next to our route here. that tri