"Robert Barker" wrote in
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"Robert Barker" wrote:
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.. . On Jan 30, 2:36 pm, Peter Clark
wrote:
For those interested in such things, the MythBusters show titled
"Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" is in TVGuide to air tonight at 9pm
Eastern US on Discovery/Discovery HD.

Any pilot (including the one that flew the plane on the show) and
believed they'd stand "like a brick" should fear their next BFR.

Why?

His conceptual confusion is obviously not uncommon or entirely
without cause - after all, consider the case of landing on that same
treadmill and applying the brakes. What do you think happens? Is it
immediately obvious, or do you have to spend some time thinking about
it to get the resulting motion correct?

No, I can perhaps understand the misconception in non-pilots. But for
a pilot not to understand tells me he slept through a lot of his
ground school...

I know an ex RAF airline pilot who thinks that a crosswind in the cruise
causes yaw problems.


No ****..

Bertie