Best cockpit ever!

[SLUF4]

stupid question, but how do they navigate the shuttle in for landing? I'm assuming GPS now, but what about before that?

 

[dugan jones]

Oh, I thought it was the best "cock" ever. I came here for no reason. Who cares about buttons and stuff.

you must be one of those purdue guys haha

 

[Max Powers]

stupid question, but how do they navigate the shuttle in for landing? I'm assuming GPS now, but what about before that?

I assume they plot the course into a Flight director and Use A combo of GPS and Ineritial nav to determine the majority of position finding.

 

[CesnaCaptn]

I assume they plot the course into a Flight director and Use A combo of GPS and Ineritial nav to determine the majority of position finding.

At one point they were using a microwave landing system (MLS). My pops showed me a Nat Geo mag from the early '80 that had an article on MLSs. They were going to be the wave of the future and allow airliners to navigate down to a runway on a curved flight path all the way from cruise. I guess RNP will make MLSs obsolete and the FAA never had the funding to install the MLSs in the first place.

I do believe there were a few airports that had them installed. MSP and DFW come to mind.

 

[Quimby]

its a glider (a damn fast one, but its still a glider)

My I-phone has more computing power than that thing does...

Did your I-Phone have just shy of 7 million lbs of thrust though?