Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Simulation, Hijacking, and Solutions?

[<js...@ha...>]

> That's only good til the terrorists figure out how to use it ... and they 
> will.  In the war between armor and armament, the armament always wins.

The space shuttle has been in orbit and controllable via telemetry for twenty 
years. Unpiloted or remotely piloted vehicles are a part of the army's 
inventory. The communications portion of this can be done securely, I have no 
doubt, and it has been demostrated for a long time. The point of failure here 
(the weakest link) would probably be the ground based facility where the 
controlling pilot would be. Perhaps it could be on a military base.

The point of all my discussions about ground override would be - as I state in 
later emails - to provide an option for FBW aircraft a last-resort method to 
prevent an airliner from being used as a cruise
missile.