Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

On 22/06/10 14:33, Mxsmanic wrote:
William Black writes:

End of story really, she has...

That's an extremely simplistic viewpoint. It's a bit like saying that anyone
who has ever driven any type of car can automatically drive any type of road
vehicle, while simultaneously saying that anyone who hasn't been behind the
wheel of a car cannot possible know how to drive one. Both notions are
baseless.

No, it's like saying that anyone who has driven any car knows a great
deal more about driving than someone who has played driving games on a
personal computer, no matter how sophisticated.

Now I don't know about where you live, which I seem to remember is a
cupboard in Paris, but here they don't let you take your driving test
on your PC. They tend to insist that you get your arse in a car and
drive one around town to make sure you do actually know what you're doing.

Same with aircraft, they don't actually issue a pilots license to
anyone unless they actually get in an aircraft and show someone that
they can fly the bloody thing.


--
William Black

These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious
Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes
their passage does so at his own peril.