Good-Cardiologist679 t1_isr920e wrote
Reply to comment by son_et_lumiere in TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing. by Key-Code-4296
A flight planner, it’s someone’s job to crunch numbers for the pilot, but now pilots use ipads and etc and they have flight planning apps like foreflight that tell you all the info you need.
son_et_lumiere t1_israjdd wrote
I would have to assume the flight planner is in the cockpit with them, to account for changing variables in real time? Also, do they still exist in case like the iPads break or malfunction or something?
Good-Cardiologist679 t1_israwnc wrote
No. A flight planner is in a remote location. Theres a pilot and co pilot. Theres 2 tablets and the plane has built in gps, weather radar, navaids etc in it. Anything in the air is up to the pilots flying to make decisions
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