Landing
NSEU,
You mention one of your primary concerns on a dead ship would be lack of attitude information.
I am thoroughly impressed with your insight on the 744 systems and would really like to hear how you would land in this situation.
Assuming that 30 minutes of back up power is insufficient to get to a slab of concrete, lets just say at least 2 hours from anything, I would think in 30 minutes you could get the aircraft to VMC conditions. Again for arguments sake, lets say fuel is not a limiting factor, so by some form of navigation (pax mobile GPS or star navigation) we get ourself overhead a well lit up airport, good horizon, hell lets even say the sun came up.
What would your considerations be and what would you do to get this thing on the ground.
Cider30