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On Mar 2, 6:19*pm, Ibby wrote:
The NAV/RAD page on the FMC can easily be setup as instructed and the aircraft can be vectored by ATC on an intercept course Ibby Lbby, Sounds like you do have a reasonable head on your shoulders so hopefully you will get the gist of my post.. Imagine you in seat 20F. The plane you are in is inbound for LAX. The plane is descending through 25000 feet. Sudden lurch in the plane, due to the front row passengers (AKA pilot and copilot) keels over dead. Flight attendant calls into the cockpit, plane is still on the descent profile and no answer. FA, decides it's an emergency, beats the living daylights out fo the cockpit door to gain access (after all it's locked from the inside) finds the bodies. Passengers seeing this starts panicking. The FA's in turn have enough wits about them after finding the dead bodies call into the cabin is there anybody in the plane that is a pilot. Plane now descending through 15000 feet. You raise your hand, the FA wisks you in the front seat, you now descending through 10000 feet. Remember, jets don't descent at the cozy rate of 500 fpm. You really think you are going to have enough time to figure out how to get the headset on, find the button to contact ATC, MOVE the bodies out of your way to climb into the left or right seat, and then ATC is going to have time to find someone to walk you through the complicated FMC procedures before you buy the farm? There is no reset button, and autoland is something that wouldn't be set on a descent profile for an approach I don't think????? Please think of the human adrenalin factor. Iceman we are not..... The reality is that even as a private pilot, I seriously doubt that I would be able to find the right knobs to twist in the vast array of the digitalized world that would sit in front of me. The stuff is massive to comprehend under a simulated environment without the danger of buying the farm. To expect somebody like myself who does fly a SE plane who never set foot in the cockpit of a commercial jet to be able to follow programming instructions for the FMC and set it up for autoladning just is not realistic. Yeah, I am sitting at the comforts of my computer, I study day in and day out of the procedures of a 767 FMC, the above scenario pans out. You don't think a person wouldn't have a brain fart due to the adrenalin factor from the chaos developing behind you from the passengers and yourself saying WTF do I do next? I can say with experience and working with the Garmin 430 simulator on my computer and using the Garmin 430 in my plane, that the simulator isn't the real deal. Clicking on the knob to tune the radio, moving my mouse just a little bit without my head turnign ain't the real deal. Flying in my plane, scanning my instruments IN IMC, doing all I can to reduce the movement of my head to tune my 430 is not the same as clicking a mouse on my simulator. Is it the big knob or little knob, Is it the knob on the right or is it the knob on the left. Little knob, what do you mean little knob, I see bunches of knobs. what page is the approach plate on, is it the big knob or little knob. Oh yeah, still need to scan my instruments to stay upright. Dang it, can't pull the manual out, I am flying a plane! MSFS will NEVER simulate the real deal of push, pulling, turning, tuning ir twisting any aircraft avionics. It doesn't simulate reaching across the panel, holding the plane upright (remember, I have to scan my instruments to remain upright, can't assume autopilot will do that for you!!) As I have posted many, many times, and I have used MSFS X. Flying an approach on the computer just doesn't simulate the physical sensations of IMC. Not sure if you ever been in IMC, not even sure if you are a pilot, but if you never been in IMC, please talk to a IA rated pilot and ask him to take you up. You will never look at a cloud the same way. |
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