Posted on 10/09/2013 5:38:44 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The plane flies itself. You just control it.
Sigh.
I guess no one here has seen “Airplane!”
Over Macho Grande?
While doing 4 engine maintenance runs on C5’s back in the day, we’d (run crew) often contemplate what it would be like to just taxi one away and take off...of course...the landing part is what always prevented us from ever going beyond contemplating this idiocy.
Saw both movies. What a riot. Esp. the “emergency backup FO”
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? :-)
A number of years ago my husband got his private pilots license from an older professional instructor. Years later we heard that the instructor had died while taxiing down the runway with a student on the students very first lesson. I always wondered if the student found another instructor or gave it up because he has used up his one lucky break.
Yes. The landing really is important.
Within a few months after moving to Alaska I learned how to fly a Cessna 150.
That was a great scene.
Buddy Hackett, at the controls: “What if something goes wrong?”
Jim Backus (in his Thurston Howell voice): “What could go wrong with an old fashioned?”
All airplanes eventually land!!!
Hahahaha!! :D
“Floor”.. one of the irritating differences (of many) between Brit English and Real English ;^)
Flying a light aircraft does not take a lot of ability, indeed it seems as though the landing did not go well at all, more like a controlled crash. Nor is there any indication that the passenger kept 'a cool head'; he did however manage to live through it.
Having a calm voice on the radio to instruct you is VERY important, no need to have two frantic participants.
How do I know? 35 years as an enroute controller, during which I worked at least a dozen VFR pilots stuck on top or in actual IFR conditions. And one I had to take through an entire VOR IFR approach, a scary proposition. So the tower may have done a lousy job, but the odds are they did their job well.
Twenty or thirty years ago the controller skills needed were common, not so much now. Automation, affirmative action, PC, and other deleterious crap has taken quite a toll.
“Does anybody know how to fly a plane?”
I remember the basics. I flew co-pilot with my dad for years, back when private aviation was still affordable enough for the middle classes to afford an airplane. Later on, the cost of flying greatly outpaced my career, so I gave up the dream and did not get a pilot’s license of my own.
You need to see ‘Airplane!’, then you’ll get the joke.
flying, on the other hand, is just great for those who wish to do so. I’m surrounded by them.
No doubt! LOL
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