Acceptable hootenanny line-up imo

[Sir C]

Did you actually fly passenger jets c?

Not professionally, h. Although there was a rather amusing incident involving a junior first officer and an A320 from Gatwick to Paphos which could have resulted in prison time for several of those involved

I've displayed military jets, if that helps?

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[Sir C]

No, turned there back on my mum when she needed help....coonts

Civil servants, innit.

[SWv2]

Not professionally, h. Although there was a rather amusing incident involving a junior first officer and an A320 from Gatwick to Paphos which could have resulted in prison time for several of those involved

I've displayed military jets, if that helps?

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On a shelf at home?


I display a few scooters on top of the CD stand.

[Ash]

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Yugoslavia!

[Sir C]

Yugoslavia!

Stolen by some Serbian air force pilots at the end of the war

[Ash]

Stolen by some Serbian air force pilots at the end of the war

How easy is it, btw, for a bloke who has mainly trained on a simulator, to fly a passenger airliner into a building at ground level without touching the grass?

Asking for a friend.

[Sir C]

How easy is it, btw, for a bloke who has mainly trained on a simulator, to fly a passenger airliner into a building at ground level without touching the grass?

Asking for a friend.

Flying a 3 axis simulator is exactly the same as flying the aircraft. If you've done it in the sim you can do it in the aeroplane.

[Ash]

Flying a 3 axis simulator is exactly the same as flying the aircraft. If you've done it in the sim you can do it in the aeroplane.

Can't be exactly the same, surely? It isn't real, for a start. You're not going to die if something goes wrong, or right in this case.

Could you do it?

[Sir C]

Can't be exactly the same, surely? It isn't real, for a start. You're not going to die if something goes wrong, or right in this case.

Could you do it?

I've done some sim training myself and I've sat in on lots of training and testing and what is immediately noticeable is that after 10 minutes everyone completely forgets that it isn't real. It's so incredibly immersive that you have absolutely no feeling of it being make believe at all.

Flying an aeroplane, under power, into something and hitting it accurately would be more a question of holding your nerve than skill. An airliner has lots and lots of thrust and lots and lots of momentum; it will go exactly where you point it, and if you're not concerned about niceties like maintaining a correct speed and rate of descent, or keeping the ride comfortable for your passengers, or overstressing the airframe, you could learn pretty quickly to aim the nose at your target and keep it there.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Have you done the training exercise where you end up upside down in a swimming pool strapped into a pretend cockpit ?