I would get a Powered wheel chair scooter for the base. Remove chair and replace with a motorcycle lift from harbor freight. Or smaller same idea would be the transmission jack. Replace jack foot pump with 12v actuator... think gate opener.
As a VFR pilot there are some times when the sun is out you should not fly. Sometimes when the sun is not out, you should not fly, some times you can fly.
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Intercoms have to have a failure mode so the pilot can still talk and listen even if they don't have power. Sounds like the intercom and DME don't have power... or a ground... and are not powering up. Are they on the same circuit? Check that circuit first.
The NDB will have an audio feed to...
Can you further explain "no longer working"? Use words like. Does not power up. Comes on but does not do the functions intended.
I feel like tech support asking if the green light on the lower left hand corner of the monitor.
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So let's say a plane in the USA does get taken over. What next? When 9/11 happened the only plan the FAA had was to deal with incoming threats, not deal with friendly's that become hostile. ATC could not order up fighters. A call, to someone and then maybe to SC in Omaha. Or a couple calls in...
No. reference the guy in LA that ran to the TSA. Shot the TSA Agent. If he wanted to he could have run to a boarding airline. with the cockpit door open and hijacked the airline off the ground. Security protocol was put into place to prevent in air hijacking. Security Theater is what it is...
It would be easier to just set up a cracker unit in your back yard and buy some oil to put into it. Then you can sell the other refined products and make money on the deal. so easy a kid can do it.
There are more constants to airplane accidents: An aircraft is involved, There is usually a pilot, Sometimes there is a passenger, there are sometimes an engine or two, there are wings, There are flight controls, There are engine controls.