The flight controls live in the motorbike-style handlebars and there are no foot pedals whatsoever, meaning the craft could be piloted by those without the use of their legs.
Jessica's flight instructor, Joe Reid, was reportedly sitting beside her during the fatal flight and was to take over the controls in an emergency.
The only question is whether Nicosia tries to stem the pace of deposit flight by imposing capital controls or whether the ECB allows the Central Bank of Cyprus to relax its collateral rules sufficiently to permit it to provide unlimited Emergency Liquidity Assistance to a recapitalized banking sector.
Kramer manages to damage the plane's controls in mid-flight and they're forced to land in the conservative small town of Latham, Massachusetts, where they witness a carjacking.
The Queen favours Concorde when she flies and the Queen Mother is even reported to have taken the controls of one of the aircraft during a test flight.
Ferry was involved in a mid-air drama after Christmas this year when a man burst into the cockpit of a flight he was on from London to Nairobi, and attempted to seize the controls.
Bryan Ferry was caught up in a mid-air drama just after Christmas when a man burst into the cockpit of a flight he was on from London to Nairobi, and attempted to seize the controls.
Capital controls are imposed to prevent the flight of money abroad.
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But, back to the flying analogy, we see our airspeed slowing (economic indicators), we are already pretty close to the ground (recession), and our flight controls (policies) have been less responsive.
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Wall Street firms and those responsive to their well-heeled lobbying in the Bush administration and in the Senate will raise the specter of capital controls, engendering capital flight and lost business opportunities, unless such measures are spurned.
"What a great privilege to be at the controls of such a great airplane on its first flight, " said Feuerstein.
Big depositors in the country's two biggest banks lost money and the island remains financially cut off from the rest of the euro zone because of capital controls intended to stop deposit flight.
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Capital flight is high in Argentina due to the depreciating peso and currency controls are becoming more and more aggressive.
If controls on outflows could deter capital flight, goes the thinking, central banks could lower interest rates and revive their economies.
Steady advances in automation and robotics are now invisibly encapsulated in navigation, weather avoidance, traffic management, flight controls, safety and communications aids that materially benefit the two-pilot front cabin.
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Facebook itself could take the lead and give users better filters and controls in an attempt to prevent flight.
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The committee's report issued safety recommendations to the airline in order to ensure pilots were trained to follow correct procedure in handing over flight controls during critical moments and times.
Climbing to 17, 000 feet was bumpy, and I turned the controls over to Terry Tomeny, a former F-16 jock and now chief of flight-test engineering for Eclipse.
China and India, two countries with exchange controls, have been largely isolated from the crisis - although China has been struggling to control illegal capital flight.
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