Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:26:29 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

Cessna makes or made (I don't recall the current structure of the
personal aircraft inudstry) some heavier aircraft than the 150s I
used to fly. Including some Jets (the Citation line).

Yes. I fly a Citation X on my trusty sim all the time. But flying jets is
expensive,

What ae you saying? That you an't afford the jet software for the
sim?

and one need not do so for a CPL. Indeed, it might well be the
other way around: CPL, then jets.

I'm not sure. I've forgotten. Is a commercial rating required
before you can qualify for an ATR? By the way, you don't need an
ATR to fly a jet.

I wonder if John Travolta has an ATR...?

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On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:01:37 -0700, Dudley Henriques wrote:

On Jun 20, 4:30Â*am, Wingnut wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:11:10 -0700, Dudley Henriques wrote:
All this is just a fancy way of saying that prior experience in a
Cessna 150 might not matter in a 767

Who said anything about a Cessna? The original post said she had
experience as a *commercial* pilot. That tends to mean something a bit
bigger than just a personal aircraft.

I believe the lady herself said during a TV interview that her
experience was restricted to light aircraft. The type "Cessna" was
mentioned.

This statement, if true, remains irrelevant. Learning curves are
monotonic increasing. She cannot be actually worse than someone with zero
piloting experience and is probably at least slightly better.

Furthermore, the original post to this thread did not state anything of
the sort, only that she had a commercial pilot's license, which as
another person pointed out normally includes non-zero experience with
larger craft.

"Wingnut" wrote in message
...
Who said anything about a Cessna? The original post said she had
experience as a *commercial* pilot. That tends to mean something a bit
bigger than just a personal aircraft.

Not so. The training and testing for the Commercial certificate is normally
done in single engine aircraft; often very simple single engine aircraft. To
take a step down from that, I hold a Commercial glider pilot certificate and
have taken hundreds of paying passengers up in sailplanes.

Vaughn

"vaughn" wrote

Not so. The training and testing for the Commercial certificate is
normally done in single engine aircraft; often very simple single engine
aircraft. To take a step down from that, I hold a Commercial glider
pilot certificate and have taken hundreds of paying passengers up in
sailplanes.

Best to ignore this wingnut, as the knowledge of aviation is only slightly
above MX. 'Nuff said.
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Jim in NC

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:30:23 +0000 (UTC), Wingnut
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:11:10 -0700, Dudley Henriques wrote:

All this is just a fancy way of saying that prior experience in a Cessna
150 might not matter in a 767

Who said anything about a Cessna? The original post said she had
experience as a *commercial* pilot. That tends to mean something a bit
bigger than just a personal aircraft.

I got my commercial in a Cessna 120 with a coffeegrinder radio. You
got a problem with that?

Jim