Sad day for Mxsmanic

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Mike Ash writes:

The bit in the article where he talks about a simmer being asked to land
a passenger plane after the pilots have been debilitated is pretty
funny. Absolutely no mention whatsoever of the difficulty or
improbability of actually pulling off such a feat. It is simply assumed
that it could be done.

It can easily be done.


No it cannot. It would end in disaster.

Steve Foley writes:

No it cannot. It would end in disaster.

Why?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve Foley writes:

No it cannot. It would end in disaster.

Why?


For the same reason I'm really good at killing zombies on my computer, it
isn't real life you nitwit.

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

For the same reason I'm really good at killing zombies on my computer, it
isn't real life you nitwit.

Unfortunately, that's not an answer. The reality is that there is no basis
for your assertion.

It has long been taken as gospel that a non-pilot could never land an
airliner, and as long as one sticks to the outdated assumption that he'd have
to actually take the controls, that's probably true. But today's airliners
are so heavily automated that they can be flown and landed without ever
touching the flight controls, so the dogma of yesteryear is no longer
applicable.

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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

For the same reason I'm really good at killing zombies on my computer, it
isn't real life you nitwit.

Unfortunately, that's not an answer. The reality is that there is no
basis
for your assertion.

It has long been taken as gospel that a non-pilot could never land an
airliner, and as long as one sticks to the outdated assumption that he'd
have
to actually take the controls, that's probably true. But today's
airliners
are so heavily automated that they can be flown and landed without ever
touching the flight controls, so the dogma of yesteryear is no longer
applicable.


Dude, I wouldn't guarantee that I could land an airliner, even if I did it
wouldn't be pretty. But don't let reality get in the way of your delusion of
saving the day. If you want to pretend that pushing a few buttons that you
are told to push and the thing autolanding as "really" landing an airliner
then that is hardly landing an airliner. Now if you want to talk hand flying
the plane onto the runway with just MSFS experience as your background then
I think you live in fantasy land.

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

If you want to pretend that pushing a few buttons that you
are told to push and the thing autolanding as "really" landing an airliner
then that is hardly landing an airliner.

The airliner ends up on the ground, stopped, undamaged, with all passengers
safe. That's as real as it gets.

Now if you want to talk hand flying
the plane onto the runway with just MSFS experience as your background then
I think you live in fantasy land.

Hand-flying isn't necessary, as I have explained.

Clark writes:

You hope it includes stopped. Not all autoland systems have auto-braking much
less automatic deployment of spoilers and thrust reversers.

The person flying the aircraft can be instructed on applying the brakes.

Dream on. You've never hand flown anything so how could you possibly know?

By reading and learning, something that many people never attempt.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve Foley writes:

No it cannot. It would end in disaster.

Why?

It has not been demonstrated to my satisfaction that any other outcome is
possible.

I do not accept your conjecture as proof.

When you have evidence that someone with nothing but simulator experience
has successfully landed an airliner full of passengers, let me know.

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve Foley writes:

No it cannot. It would end in disaster.

Why?

It has not been demonstrated to my satisfaction that any other outcome is
possible.

I do not accept your conjecture as proof.

When you have evidence that someone with nothing but simulator experience
has successfully landed an airliner full of passengers, let me know.


This will be a circular conversation where MS insists that simulation is
close enough that it could easily be pulled off with no further proof.

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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This will be a circular conversation where MS insists that simulation is
close enough that it could easily be pulled off with no further proof.

Maybe semi-circular.

When he responds with the same conjecture, there won't be any point in
repeating myself.