FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Ross wrote:
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Ross wrote in
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F. Baum wrote:

On Dec 13, 12:06 am, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:


What they showed with landing the NASA simulator is that any
person with some level experience with a cockpit display can
control an airliner. Most FAA controllers would not have the
experience to describe the cockpit and give useful instruction in
how to manually fly with the autopilot or where the switches are
located, or how to use the radio to even start the "rescue."

Maybe they should have an in-flight movie before each take-off on
how to fly the airplane, do you think TSA would allow that?

Jim, I caught just the parts of the show where J and A tried to
land the plane with some coaching from the sim instructor (Mainly
to see how the instructor would do this). These portions of the
show were amazingly brief (Possibly for security reasons ?) . The
stuff they did show was scary and I doubt they could have gotten
awhay with some of it in a real plane. I do watch the show for its
"Infotaiment" value but I remain unconvinced that someone could
actually be talked down in an airliner. I think it has been tried
a time or two in GA after the pilot became incapacitated.
FB
I had the opportunity to "fly" a American Airlines F-100 in their
full motion simulator with an instructor. He was able to talk me
through a landing at O'Hare Airport without crashing the airplane.
However, without someone familiar with the aircraft the
intimidation of the lights, buttons, dials, radios, switches, etc
would overwhelm anyone.


And that's only a little fartbox of a jet!

Bertie

Yea, but it was fun for me since it was my first time!

My first time was in the back of a Nash.


Now you are dating yourself.

Well, could be worse, coulda been a hupmobile or a stanley steamer.

Bertie

The Steamer would have been nice. If you could make the boiler big
enough and light enough, I wonder how fast the damn thing could have
REALLY gone :-))

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Dudley Henriques