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Think you can land a plane in an emergency? Pilots explain why you can’t
- xen2xen1 4y agoSure, I could land a plane.. Memories of Top Gun for NES.. Wait, no, totally no.
- ntw1103 4y ago"To anyone who claims they can land a plane without experience, in an imaginary or real scenario, Venhuizen issued this challenge: “They should go give it a shot some time in a simulator.”" I have and did fine.
- simonblack 4y agoThere is a valid reason that pilots (or their companies) pay lots and lots of money for them to obtain the type rating for various kinds of aircraft. Part of that rating is have the knowing of lots of specific information about a particular aircraft available for instant recall: things like stall speed, glide speed, landing speed, flap settings, lowest take-off speed, all those speeds but with one or more engines inoperative, position of switches and controls, position of instruments, normal engine RPM, the 'feel' of the plane, the normal sound of the engines, normal flight attitudes, etc, etc, etc.