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Yeah right! Last time I checked starting up a bus was easy as starting up an airbus. ;) [1] [1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e54_1379836442 http://www.livele

• victorhooi 13y ago
  I couldn't tell at the beginning whether this was a spoof or not, lol but nope, it's a genuine training video...lol. It makes you think of all those movies where the protagonist, with no experience suddenly leaps into action and pilots the plane to safety. Question for pilots - if you learn one plane, can you pick them all up? Or are they all vastly different?
  • sokoloff 13y ago
    I'm only moderately experienced (1200 hours or so, single and multi-engine rated). Put me in any airliner with all systems working (dead crew, no mechanical faults, weather above minimums and sufficient fuel), and I'll get the thing to a safe landing 999 out of 1000. I can't start it; I might not be able to taxi it in to the ramp; I surely can't diagnose system faults on an unfamiliar plane, but it's easy to get it to the ground and generally easy to get it stopped (especially if you choose an 8000+ runway, rather than the 5000 foot that might have been the original destination). The vast differences don't matter much when everything is working and there are plenty of margins and you only have to land/stop.