Originally Posted by
JJ21
With regard to the “secondary flight plan” programmed into the box 12 minutes before contact was loss:
What if the crew updated the “secondary flight plan” flight plan from their t/o airport as their return airport for an emergency to a new alternate emergency airport for the over open ocean water portion of their flight route.
If I'm in an emergency situation I'm not going to be spending time programming a new route and I doubt there are many guys who would opt to do this...