On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, George Patterson wrote:

Robert Morien wrote:

aw, come on. How does a 14 year old without any flying experience manage
to start an airplane, much less know how to control the throttle?

The ignition switch works just like a car, which he's seen used thousands of
times. The throttle on a 152 is exactly like that on a farm tractor and is
clearly labeled. I'd bet he's either been given rides in aircraft or driven a
tractor.

You're forgetting Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Betcha this brat has it on the family machine. (right alongside the
gigabytes of illegals MP3s & movies...)

If you nose thru MSFS's help files patiently enough, and set the realism
settings right, it's easy to duplicate the start sequence of an aircraft.

Brian.