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Idk, I’ve only flown 172s and have only landed a handful of times myself, but I think you could fairly easily talk someone through landing with an at least dece
by mattmaroon 4y ago
Idk, I’ve only flown 172s and have only landed a handful of times myself, but I think you could fairly easily talk someone through landing with an at least decent chance of survival if the weather was good. I mean this is not an experiment you want to run, of course. But landing in good conditions is pretty intuitive. You can tell if your angle to the runway is good or bad pretty easily and just adjust the throttle. And those things will stop themselves with plenty of runway left. You could probably land a small plane halfway down the runway, not know how to operate the brakes, and still come to a crawl before the end in most places.
I wouldn’t take an even money wager on it but I don’t think it’s terribly unlikely to have a decent landing. Especially since the pilot likely was showing him the controls in air before going unresponsive.
- mhb 4y ago> I think you could fairly easily talk someone through landing The bad news is that it is 10/28 (east-west) and the wind was reported from the north at 11 knots gusting 17. KPBI 101553Z 02011G17KT 10SM SCT042 SCT046 26/15 A student pilot with 20 hours of training probably wouldn’t have been signed off by his/her/zir/their instructor to operate in that kind of crosswind. From: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/05/10/a-hero-flies-the-cessna-caravan-to-palm-beach/ https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/05/10/a-hero-flies-th...
- imwillofficial 4y ago“signed off by his/her/zir/their instructor to operate” What does “zir” mean? I’ve seen it around but can’t remember where.
- cecilpl2 4y agoIt's a gender neutral pronoun.
- imwillofficial 4y agoHow is it different than using “their”?
- mattmaroon 4y agoIt shows you’re woke.
- mhb 4y agoAnd/or using it ironically, as he does.
- cecilpl2 4y agoSome people feel like "their" is plural and therefore invented a singular gender-neutral pronoun.
- zzo38computer 4y ago"Their" is grammatically plural, even though what it refers to may be singular, plural, or neither (or, in some cases, may be unknown). "You" is also grammatically plural, even though what it refers to may be singular, plural, or neither. (Singular they seems to be from the 14th century, so it isn't really new.)
- mhb 4y agoIt is clear that it is singular.
- shiomiru 4y agoUnlike singular their, it's non-standard.
- CDSlice 4y agoI’ve seen it used as a gender neutral pronoun and some people prefer it to his/her but most people now just use “their” when they don’t know don’t know the gender of the person they are talking about.
- whimsicalism 4y agoit's an old-style gender neutral pronoun that has mostly fallen out of favor
- lordgrenville 4y agoIt's a phrase Greenspun uses a lot on his blog, mocking excessive concern with gender pronouns. (In between a lot of interesting content, he constantly bangs on about 2 topics: how dumb he thinks liberals are, and how US divorce law discriminates against men.)
- TillE 4y agoSomehow it's always family court with these guys.
- aksss 4y agoWith woke pronouns, I feel like an 87 yo man around tiktok - don't care, not going to learn it, not enough time left on Earth to give a crap, happy to glide towards the grave without giving it a second thought. Y'all do you.
- wolverine876 4y agoThen why post about it?
- aksss 4y agoagain, 87 yo around tiktok - voicing my unbidden opinion is part of the package.
- blarg1 4y agoI feel like that around anything after icq and msn messenger.
- mattmaroon 4y agoThat’s neat and it does make it a bit more impressive. But an instructor who thought you had a 90% chance of landing without dying wouldn’t accept 10% risk and sign off, so it doesn’t say much about the overall odds. But I didn’t realize he was flying a turboprop in crosswinds though!
- nevf1 4y agoIt is fairly intuitive but my first few landings in a Cessna 150 were not pleasant at all. Granted it was a grass runway but I'd have been in serious trouble without my instructor. I'm sure the tower would have been able to give good guidance on pitch, angle, etc. but there's a lot of juggling going on when you're landing a plane, especially when you're inexperienced.