Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:02:30 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:
Wingnut writes:
Do you honestly think someone with a *commercial* license won't
typically be well past that "not experienced enough to be humble"
stage?
Often, but not always.
"Often" is good enough for me.
In your ever-so-humble opinion perhaps.
Without instruction, a non-pilot--or a pilot without experience in
type--would be in very hot water.
Nobody said otherwise.
Er, horizon? Altimeter?
That's probably what he'd be asking himself. The AI had pretty colors
that are easy to spot, but the rest is not so obvious. He might spot the
standby AI and altimeter, but those aren't the instruments to watch.
The last time I checked, the altimeter is quite important when flying
(and doubly so when landing!). The horizon is generally easily
recognized, typically to a first approximation a circle that's half blue
and half some other color. Important to know the plane's orientation,
both pitch and roll (while the compass gives you yaw, the third
rotational degree of freedom).
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