"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , David Cartwright wrote:
approaches and landings, not broken flaps, hydraulic failures, etc). And
a
friend who's a commercial pilot reckons that even a PPL with a decent
amount
of experience stands a reasonable chance of landing something like a 737
so

I can say first hand that's possible. I did the ATOP course when United
were running it in Denver (12 hrs of groundschool, and 1 hr flight time
in their Level D sim). The B737 just wasn't hard to land, nor was it
difficult to hand-fly an instrument approach.

I would say I've got good confidence that most PPLs who've flown a high
performance single could pull it off given instructions on what to push
over the radio.

If they can figure out how to use the particular radio, which was one of the
things the 9/11 terrorists screwed up despite reading the manuals. Hell, I
have enough difficulty switching among the various stacks in our rental
fleet of 172's. Is there a big red arrow labeled "PTT SWITCH HERE" in the
737?

-- David Brooks