FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Mark Hickey writes:

It's important to remember that the would-be pilot/savior would have
tremendous motivation to get it right the first time.

Yes. That could help or hurt, depending on the personality of the
individual.


You would have no chance asshole.


When thinking
through that scenario, I always pictured having three or four people
in the cockpit - each with a limited job that they'd be walked
through by an expert on the radio... maybe each with a cell phone
connecting them to individual team members on the ground. Then it's
just up to those experts on the ground to talk each of them through
about 1/4 of the process of getting the plane on the ground in one
piece (as opposed to making a flawless landing on the numbers).

That seems unnecessarily complicated. Especially with automation, as
long as the person in the left seat can push a button, turn a dial,
and move a lever, he can land the plane--provided also that he can
follow simple instructions on the radio.


Well, that would rule you out, fjukktard.


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Darrel Toepfer writes:

hehehe, he said "get it right the first time":

It's not hard to get it right the first time. While most people can't
fly airplanes by hand without making mistakes, everyone has pushed
buttons, turned dials, and moved levers countless times in his life,
and if he can also understand and follow instructions, he can land a
747, which requires no more than the manipulations just mentioned when
the automation is used.


Nope.


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Darrel Toepfer writes:

Mxsmanic wrote:

No circumstances have ever required it in airliners, but it's
certainly doable.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0080339
http://imdb.com/title/tt0083530
http://imdb.com/title/tt0065377
http://imdb.com/title/tt0071110
http://imdb.com/title/tt0367085

These are works of fiction.


just like you!


Bertie

"cavelamb himself" wrote

Who is this fool????

You've just been MXed!
--
Jim in NC

Jim Logajan wrote:
"muff528" wrote:

"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation


A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)


I mentioned earlier that my parents had a Nash. I remember that the
front seats would lay back and if you pulled them up just right you
could have a very nice "bed" with the back seat.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

Ross wrote in news:q0z8j.1$W34.0@dfw-
service2.ext.ray.com:

Jim Logajan wrote:
"muff528" wrote:

"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation


A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)


I mentioned earlier that my parents had a Nash. I remember that the
front seats would lay back and if you pulled them up just right you
could have a very nice "bed" with the back seat.


Yep. A friend of mine had a 1960 Rambler that did that. I got one too and
we tried to fold the front seats in the same fashion, but it took a lof of
force. Sitting on the dash and kicking force, to be exact. We got them to
fold but found out afterwards that mine didn't have that feature, so from
that point on I was driving around sitting on the edge of a bed.
Just like Anthony, come to think of it!

Oh yeah, it ony had second gear and had a range of about 15 miles before it
overheated. I loved it. I called it "The Midnight Rambler"

Bertie

Morgans wrote:
"cavelamb himself" wrote


Who is this fool????


You've just been MXed!

Is that like when somebody runs a pipe cleaner in one ear
and out the other?

"cavelamb himself" wrote

Is that like when somebody runs a pipe cleaner in one ear
and out the other?

Except in MX's case, the pipe cleaner would come out clean!
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in
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"cavelamb himself" wrote

Is that like when somebody runs a pipe cleaner in one ear
and out the other?

Except in MX's case, the pipe cleaner would come out clean!

No, it would come out covered in fecal matter.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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"Marty Shapiro" wrote

No, it would come out covered in fecal matter.


True. I don't know what I was thinking! g

I am not sure it would be because he is full of it, or because he lives with
his head up his arse, though. ;-)
--
Jim in NC