"Gattman" == Gattman writes:

Gattman One of the theories they suggested but didn't fully nuke
Gattman was the assertion that a licensed pilot with 250 hours
Gattman couldn't have flown a jet into the Pentagon.

I have around 800 hours as a PP-ASEL. No IFR ticket. Most of my time
in Cessnas, Cubs, and an Aircoupe. Most advanced airplane I've logged
time in is 30 hours in a C-182.

I posted here before about this, but will post the relevant part
again: a few months ago I had an opportunity to "fly" a full-motion
DC-10 simulator for about 6 hours (including short breaks), shared
with 2 other guys, so maybe 3 hours in either front seat and an hour
or more in the 3rd seat (flight engineer). We were all VFR guys. The
instructor ran us through take-off, manuvering, and landing, both
hand-flying and by the book which involves mostly setting the
autopilot and associated buttons, knobs, dials, and bugs.

The bottom line: we all could take-off and fly the thing after an hour
or two. Landing wasn't a big deal either. The reality is that with
no emergencies to bother with it was not hugely more difficult to
manuever than, say, my little Aircoupe. Being a computer nerd type
helps. So could a pilot with 250 flight hours and 10-20 hours in a
full-motion sim, and a death wish, fly a commercial jet into the
Pentagon? You bet.
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