ITT: Real pilots who know they wouldn't do a good job landing a large airliner and FSX players.
[QUOTE=blackdenton;18994112]ITT: Real pilots who know they wouldn't do a good job landing a large airliner and FSX players.[/QUOTE]
Or a nam vet, They can do anything
100% I wouldn't be able to land one but I might be able to crash one and survive - maybe.
Depends on the weather conditions. I've flown a Cessna a few times (not enough to call myself a pilot though) and I found landing in calm weather is relatively easy. However, throw in some heavy winds and shit got tough. The instructor was showing me how I had to swing the aircraft to the left and right to take off some airspeed and it was scary shit. I was able to do it but it was not easy at all, I landed with only a little bit of runway left.
Since those large aircraft have such a huge surface area, I'd assume that wind and such can really do a number on them. I've seen them land practically horizontal to the runway facing into the wind so they can land on the strip without being blown off to the side.
I'd probably have a pretty rough landing, maybe break the landing gear and end up with some people injured, but I wouldn't crash and explode. In clear weather.
Throw in some mild-heavy winds and that shit would end up in the middle of the airport terminal.
add a few screaming passengers
I have a yoke, throttle quadrant, and rudder pedals from Saitek. If anyone wants me to send a pic of my setup I'll show it.
I can land a Cesna, but that's it.
Playing Flight Simulator X helps. :v:
I would give it a shot. Flight sim is great practice.
Autopilot
[QUOTE=Orange-Soda;18997428]Autopilot[/QUOTE]
What if it broke?
the pilot hit the "break autopilot" button as he died
[QUOTE=Orange-Soda;18997428]Autopilot[/QUOTE]
Autopilot doesn't land for you. It can help you maintain a certain heading, speed, and altitude, but you can't push a button that says "LOL LAND" and have it land for you.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;18998097]Autopilot doesn't land for you. It can help you maintain a certain heading, speed, and altitude, but you can't push a button that says "LOL LAND" and have it land for you.[/QUOTE]
what about "LOL PILOT"? does it land for you? or is it the same as Autopilot
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its really slow for me...
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;18998097]Autopilot doesn't land for you. It can help you maintain a certain heading, speed, and altitude, but you can't push a button that says "LOL LAND" and have it land for you.[/QUOTE]
True, but some autopilots do have an approach hold, the button is labeled "APR" or approach. This holds you on the localizer approach course, which most airports have and would align you with the runway.
You can also set the autopilot to maintain a constant rate of descent to keep on the ILS glide slope. It holds your airspeed too so that's pretty much 90% of the workload for landing a plane.
This is something ATC could talk a novice through setting up as well. In conclusion autopilot would be a huge help to a non-pilot in piloting an airplane safely to the ground.
I thought I was top shit for being able to land a jet in Battlefield: Vietnam. :(
I only started learning flight simulator X today with the coincidence of this thread. It is an amazing experience just learning the very basics of aviation. The tutorials are very easy to understand and the process on improvement is quickly recognized as you go through each lesson. Landing is undeniably harder then a take off. I tried to land an airbus from San Javier to Malaga (Mercia Spain, Malaga) at night in a storm. Despite me not landing at the assigned destination, i did "land" and tried to drive the next 14 miles on road but i got to say, i couldn't have asked for a better hour. This is the most appealing game to me since Team Fortress 2 although the similarities are as wide as having two different enjoyment factors.
biggest flame I've flown is a Cessna caravan. Although, I did try a simulator (the big ones used to train pilots) (before 9/11 of course) and I landed a 777, which was much harder than it was in FSX if i recall.
maybe, maybe not.
Without assistance, a slightly wary maybe. I've got FS hours with big jets but then again, the real world is a whole different thing. And there's the stress of not getting killed.
With assistance, probably. It all depends on my approach, it's the part that I have tendency to mess up. :P
i'll do a 360 and fly in and blow up the control tower
I might be. Probably with help too.
Does the airplane have to be intact? :buddy:
I feel like I could do it.
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;19002814] Although, I did try a simulator (before 9/11 of course).[/QUOTE]
Flight simulators became illegal after 9/11?
What the fuck?
[QUOTE=paul simon;19005144]Flight simulators became illegal after 9/11?
What the fuck?[/QUOTE]
Restricted use.
[QUOTE=ZaurZawrZore;18972713]After watching the Mythbusters put this concept to the test and seeing the show "Surviving Disaster" which dealt with pretty much the same subject, I wanted to hear what everyone here thinks. You're a passenger on an aircraft and for whatever reason the pilot and co-pilot are killed or incapacitated. Whether the cause was a 9/11 style hijack, zombies, a death ray or food poisoning, it doesn't matter and we'll assume that it has been dealt with and you are now in the position of being aboard an aircraft with nobody on board who is qualified to fly it. Would you, with assistance from the ground, attempt to fly and land the aircraft? Why/Why not?
The Mythbusters tried it in a simulator with mixed results. With no assistance from the ground, they both crashed and burned. With support from a qualified instructor over the radio, both were able to land successfully and neither has any flight experience at all.
Personally, I'd definitely give it a shot if there was nobody else with more flight experience willing to try. I'm calm and collected in an emergency and I've had flight training in a Cessna 172 including flying approaches and landings. I've also spend hundreds of hours flying realistic flight simulators over the years. There's a big difference between flying a basic single engine trainer and flying a fully loaded jumbo jet but the principles of flight remain the same. I'm pretty confident that with help from the ground, I could probably put the plane on the ground in such a way that most, if not all, the passengers would survive. Besides that, in that scenario, nobody on the aircraft would have anything to lose. If nobody stepped up and at least tried, you would have a 100% certainty of dying. Even if I had only a 25% chance of succeeding, that would be a lot better than 0%.
[b]Discuss[/b].[/QUOTE]
I assume the air-traffic-controllers would walk you through the process of landing, so possibly.
Although if I had to land a large commercial jet it would probably end badly.
Too bad I lost this quite a long time ago
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I could probably land a fairly simplistic single-engine plane, so long as I had a basic idea of the stall speed and had a bit of time to get a feel for the handling. The basic concept of a landing is to come in low over the runway and slowly stall until you contact the ground. I may bang up the landing gear, but I'm pretty sure I could get it on the ground without exploding.
A fullsize jet, though, I'd need someone feeding me instructions on how to push a button and make the plane land itself.
Sure I could. Just have to press the APR button, set a speed, extend the flaps, extend the gear, set the brakes, flare before I broke everything, a few complicated things which I'm sure I could be told over the radio and everyone would get to go home happy. I'd even taxi to the correct gate just so I could :smug: over everyone.
I think so but I'd probably destroy the underbelly of the plane with a very rough landing
Wow gee wonder if I can
Can I fly a plane? No.
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