Does anyone here know what the latest is on Southwest's flight deck setup?
I know they were very archaic with their cockpit setups still using the old six pack with no auto throttle and no VNAV in a brand new LCD equipped aeroplane.
Has any of that changed? If not the FAA is going to have to step in and drag them into the 21st century.
Given most aeroplanes built since the 80's have LNAV/VNAV to the runway I don't understand how these guys couldn't have found the strip.
I am assuming they had no reference DME or FMC distance or runway plugged into the FMC. I just don't get how with all the data in front of you could miss the runway.
If however none of that is used and they're still hanging onto the old school dials then it's pretty easy to have the incident they had.