Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

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.