Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

On 22/06/10 15:06, Mxsmanic wrote:
William Black writes:

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.

But that is also an incorrect statement.

Nope.

It's true.

If only real flying experience were important, then nobody would ever use
simulators.

But that's NOT what I said you stupid child.

That you deliberately misrepresent me says more about about you than
about anything else.

In fact, if someone wants to fly a 747, he is better off flying a
simulator of a 747 than he is flying a Cessna 152. While the simulation isn't
the same as flying a 747 for real, it's a lot closer than the real-world
experience of a Cessna 172 would be.

They won't give anyone a license to fly a plane unless they've actually
flown a plane.

The training to fly a plane starts with the little ones and works up.

Everyone starts with something small with a fan on the front and works
up, even the fast jet jockeys in the military.

Nobody does it your way because they'd end up with an altimeter that
reads less than zero for a very short period of time...


--
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.