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And what demonstration would suggest showing the target would not be difficult to hit? I have tried to think of a demonstration that would put to bed that issue. I haven't thought of any.
I did do a calculation comparing the included angle at the pilot's location encompassing a 210' wide tower when 2 sec out from striking the tower. It turns out to be 7 deg.
Then, i looked at a 150' wide runway where a 767 pilot has a 7 deg included angle when at approach speed. The question, how far out in time from touchdown is the pilot? Answer: 4.8 sec.
This says, the pilot heading to the tower has less than half the time to make corrections (at the same included angle) as a pilot landing on a runway at approach speed....
what?
No wonder you don't think anyone can hit a target, you have no idea how to do it. What is the 7 degree BS; total nonsense, I understand what you think you are doing, but it is BS.
The plane becomes more stable at high speed. Why is it harder to aim? Have you flown?
Flying a clean jet at high speed is easy to line up, 3 first time flights in heavy jets prove it on 911. Hani almost hit the ground, but he hit the "small" largest office building in the world.
The 7 degree BS is nonsense. A pilot lines up with the centerline of the runway, electronically, or visually at distances as far as 6 miles. We maintain center line from 6 miles in at fractions of angles; 7 degrees off course is grounds for being unqualified. There is no probability involved with hitting the runway, it is 100 percent, or you flunk.
Aiming at the WTC has no course to maintain, hitting a target as large as the WTC towers is easier than landing on runway, there is no line up on course required.
If aiming at the WTC you drift, you don't have to correct to a course, you aim again. There is no course to maintain. When landing on a runway, we have to maintain a course to fractions of a degree to be headed down the runway on course at touchdown, on centerline, much harder than hitting a part of a building. This is why idiot terrorists, trained pilots better than p4t, were able to hit the WTC towers, it was 10 times easier than having to land.
NO, not 10 times, it was 360 times easier since you could pick any approach angle to the towers you wanted and could change it constantly as you HOME in on your target.
When you land you have to get on course, hitting the WTC and the Pentagon was too easy. Fewer pilots would wash out of pilot training if they never had to maintain a course and land on centerline, HEADED down the runway centerline.
If you can fly a dirty jet and get near the runway, a clean fast jet is easier to fly on a day like 911, a near perfect weather day. Terrorists beat you this time; why do you apologize for them?