Man stole plane to impress girlfriend

He most likely learned how to start the engines from a sim game. Now
if his sim had pedals, he might also have learned how to steer it. He
may have a thousand hours of sim time, after all, and that would make
him an expert, right?


On Dec 4, 1:31 am, Kingfish wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but
couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage
to the twin-engine aircraft:

Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.

The real shame of it is that the twin now has damage history (assuming
it didn't before, of course) affecting its value just because Darwin
hadn't yet caught up to that fuggin moron..

"Tina" wrote in message
...
He most likely learned how to start the engines from a sim game. Now
if his sim had pedals, he might also have learned how to steer it. He
may have a thousand hours of sim time, after all, and that would make
him an expert, right?

Now that's a subtle but specific insult if I ever heard one.

On Dec 4, 1:31 am, Kingfish wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but
couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage
to the twin-engine aircraft:

Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.

The real shame of it is that the twin now has damage history (assuming
it didn't before, of course) affecting its value just because Darwin
hadn't yet caught up to that fuggin moron..

Subtle? What would my mentor, Beritie, say? I'd fail as a troll in
training!


On Dec 4, 9:22 am, "John Mazor" wrote:
"Tina" wrote in message

...

He most likely learned how to start the engines from a sim game. Now
if his sim had pedals, he might also have learned how to steer it. He
may have a thousand hours of sim time, after all, and that would make
him an expert, right?

Now that's a subtle but specific insult if I ever heard one.



On Dec 4, 1:31 am, Kingfish wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but
couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage
to the twin-engine aircraft:

Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.

The real shame of it is that the twin now has damage history (assuming
it didn't before, of course) affecting its value just because Darwin
hadn't yet caught up to that fuggin moron..- Hide quoted text -

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Kingfish wrote in
:

On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the
ground, but couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after
doing $160,000 of damage to the twin-engine aircraft:


Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.


MSFS?


Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
Kingfish wrote in
:

On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the
ground, but couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after
doing $160,000 of damage to the twin-engine aircraft:


Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.


MSFS?


Bertie

I bet he was franticly searching for the eject handle as he veered off the
runway.

"Yes - I have a name" wrote in
news:Pbc5j.8409$T41.5754@trndny01:

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
.. .
Kingfish wrote in

:

On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the
ground, but couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after
doing $160,000 of damage to the twin-engine aircraft:


Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot)
figger out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't
know about the POH.


MSFS?


Bertie

I bet he was franticly searching for the eject handle as he veered off
the runway.




Or ctrl+alt+delete



Bertie

On Dec 2, 9:00 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but
couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage
to the twin-engine aircraft:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/1...s=ind&psp=news

"Man pretends to be a pilot to impress non-existant, virtual,
girlfriend"

-Robert