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Mxsmanic wrote:

Mike Ash writes:

The *engines turning* drains the fuel from the tanks. In other words
there is a strict time limit on all of these activities.

That time limit is not changed by incapacitation of the pilots.

Never, ever said it was. All I ever said was that there is a time limit.
Anything beyond that is your demented imagination.

Airports don't keep instructors sitting around on call ready to leap
into action at a moment's notice the way they do S&R, firemen, and
military interceptors.

They don't have to be on call.

They need to be in a position where they can be found and called in,
with enough time left over to find an identical airplane (or equivalent
simulator) and talk the guy down.

I'm not saying it can't be done. But it is a challenge and it has not
been demonstrated that it can be reliably overcome. I've never said that
it's impossible, merely that it has not been demonstrated to be
possible, and the gleeful self-assurance demonstrated by both yourself
and the author of the article in question are therefore not backed up by
reality.

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Mike Ash
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