From a technical standpoint, are you telling me this system will over ride EVERY switch and CIRCUIT BREAKER in the cockpit? If a hijacker turns off the main circuit breakers, they do not shut off power to the plane? All the switches like cockpit fire extinguisher controls are locked out? This is safety?
If so, this new widget is a complete "downstairs" duplicate of the cockpit which no switch in the cockpit can over ride. Which means this duplicate cockpit will have to be the first 100% reliable technology ever made by man. Yea, right. For example, if this duplicate electronic system ever has a short in normal flight, the pilot will have no circuit breaker to shut it off and it starts a fire. If it cannot be deactivated in flight, then there cannot be a circuit breaker for it in the cockpit. Manmade electronics with no circuit breaker? Dum.
What about when a plane is in the mid Atlantic radio gap? How will ground fly the plane? By satellite link?
This presumes someone, like TSA?
, will have "remote control pilots" on duty 24 hours a day, ready to start remote flying their "giant model airplanes" INSTANTLY, or the plane crashes anyway.
This system has a really big flaw. How many remote pilots will be on duty 24/7/365.25? One? Five? Ten? How much money will it cost to staff ten remote pilots 24/7? There will be a finite number of remote pilots, say ten. So what happens if 20 terrorists on 20 planes beat on the cockpit door at the same instant to cause the auto trip? Ground can fly 10 planes. What happens to the other ten? All this high tech can be overcome by low tech manpower with synchronized wrist watches. Dumer.
Do generals fight the last war? This system is designed to prevent hijacking a plane to fly into a specific building. Many planes fly over dense populated areas going into many airports. When a plane is a few miles out while landing, seems like banging on the cockpit door has a high probablility of causing the plane to go out of control and crash anyway into the city.
No wonder this patent is secret. It was invented by idiots, ashamed to have their names made public.
