The Captain has finished one round of solar-angle calculations, and then after some hesitation decided to delegate further checking to the most obsessive and scrupulous arithmetician they can find onboard.  That kind of position-verification is meant mainly for contingencies where the computer is out, not where you think the computer is probably okay but might've been cleverly sabotaged by a criminal mastermind.  It doesn't make sense for the Captain to spend all her energy on grueling solar-angle checking, versus delegating the independent calculations to a passenger and seeing if they say something different from the computer.

She's currently purusing the handbook to double-check her memory of standard checklists for landing on a flat area that isn't a runway, and the checklists for a water landing if you can't find a flat area.  If they do have to navigate by solar angles, following the rough general emergency course might keep them away from cities and nuclear plants, but it isn't likely to get them to the target runway.  And yes, somewhere in the back of her mind is the possibility that the target runway is now a glowing crater, or that they're on a different planet that also lacks shortwave.  That probably also looks a lot like "flat field or water landing".

The Captain has finished one round of solar-angle calculations, and then after some hesitation decided to delegate further checking to the most obsessive and scrupulous arithmetician they can find onboard.  That kind of position-verification is meant mainly for contingencies where the computer is out, not where you think the computer is probably okay but might've been cleverly sabotaged by a criminal mastermind.  It doesn't make sense for the Captain to spend all her energy on grueling solar-angle checking, versus delegating the independent calculations to a passenger and seeing if they say something different from the computer.

She's currently perusing the handbook to double-check her memory of standard checklists for landing on a flat area that isn't a runway, and the checklists for a water landing if you can't find a flat area.  If they do have to navigate by solar angles, following the rough general emergency course might keep them away from cities and nuclear plants, but it isn't likely to get them to the target runway.  And yes, somewhere in the back of her mind is the possibility that the target runway is now a glowing crater, or that they're on a different planet that also lacks shortwave.  That probably also looks a lot like "flat field or water landing".

The Captain has finished one round of solar-angle calculations, and then after some hesitation decided to delegate further checking to the most obsessive and scrupulous arithmetician they can find onboard, plus a random volunteer to redo their work more slowly in case the scrupulous arithmetician is a plant.  That kind of position-verification is meant mainly for contingencies where the computer is out, not where you think the computer is probably okay but might've been cleverly sabotaged by a criminal mastermind.  It doesn't make sense for the Captain to spend all her energy on grueling solar-angle checking, versus delegating the calculations and seeing if they say something different from the computer.

She's currently perusing the handbook to double-check her memory of standard checklists for landing on a flat area that isn't a runway, and the checklists for a water landing if you can't find a flat area.  If they do have to navigate by solar angles, following the rough general emergency course might keep them away from cities and nuclear plants, but it isn't likely to get them to the target runway.  And yes, somewhere in the back of her mind is the possibility that the target runway is now a glowing crater, or that they're on a different planet that also lacks shortwave.  That probably also looks a lot like "flat field or water landing".

The Captain has finished one round of solar-angle calculations, and then after some hesitation decided to delegate further checking to the most obsessive and scrupulous arithmetician they can find onboard, plus a random volunteer to redo their work more slowly in case the scrupulous arithmetician is a plant.  That kind of position-verification is meant mainly for contingencies where the computer is out, not where you think the computer is probably okay but might've been cleverly sabotaged by a criminal mastermind.  It doesn't make sense for the Captain to spend all her energy on grueling solar-angle checking, versus delegating the calculations and seeing if they say something different from the computer.

She's currently perusing the handbook to double-check her memory of standard checklists for landing on a flat area that isn't a runway, and the checklists for a water landing if you can't find a flat area.  If they do have to navigate by solar angles, following the rough general emergency course might keep them away from cities and nuclear plants, but it isn't likely to get them to the target runway.  And yes, somewhere in the back of her mind is the possibility that the target runway is now a glowing crater, or that they're on a different planet that lacks shortwave.  That probably also looks a lot like "flat field or water landing".