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Offline killjoy1

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Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« on: January 09, 2012, 05:58:39 PM »
So I'm sitting in my seat on a Boeing 727 and the stewardess gets on the PA.  "Can anyone land this plane?  Our pilots are incapacitated."  I get up and say, "I've got 10,000 hours of flying flight sims, I can do it!"

Then there is this news piece today.

"A British Airways plane carrying more than 100 passengers was forced to turn back during a flight from London to Glasgow because the two pilots felt light-headed, a spokesman said Monday."
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 06:01:01 PM »
Quote from: killjoy1 on January 09, 2012, 05:58:39 PM
So I'm sitting in my seat on a Boeing 727 and the stewardess gets on the PA.  "Can anyone land this plane?  Our pilots are incapacitated."  I get up and say, "I've got 10,000 hours of flying flight sims, I can do it!"

Then there is this news piece today.

"A British Airways plane carrying more than 100 passengers was forced to turn back during a flight from London to Glasgow because the two pilots felt light-headed, a spokesman said Monday."
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 06:08:00 PM »
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 07:14:01 PM »
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 07:31:06 PM »
I dont dream about this...

...however, i dream about eating marshmallows.
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2012, 07:32:37 PM »
Quote from: killjoy1 on January 09, 2012, 05:58:39 PM
So I'm sitting in my seat on a Boeing 727 and the stewardess gets on the PA.  "Can anyone land this plane?  Our pilots are incapacitated."  I get up and say, "I've got 10,000 hours of flying flight sims, I can do it!"

Frankly speaking, being in a plane and having some game dweeb make that statement would be a hell of a Stephen King movie plot. No happy ending there.
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2012, 07:55:00 PM »
Quote from: killjoy1 on January 09, 2012, 05:58:39 PM
So I'm sitting in my seat on a Boeing 727 and the stewardess gets on the PA.  "Can anyone land this plane?  Our pilots are incapacitated."  I get up and say, "I've got 10,000 hours of flying flight sims, I can do it!"

Someone beat you to it..




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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2012, 08:00:52 PM »
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2012, 08:38:50 PM »
I think I could land a plane myself, but prefer to have a trained pilot do it.

Actually real pilots get a little spity knowing an average joe gamer could land a plane safely. I was showing AH2 to a friend of mine who fly's comercial airliners. I performed a nice dead stick landing in a fighter. He seemed surprised at how easy I made it look.
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2012, 08:42:31 PM »
Unless the plane was a A-10C or a Black Shark, I don't think any of us "sim-pilots" can land a plane without help from a controller or another pilot. It would take me 30 minutes just to figure out where the landing gear switch is.



Yea, good luck.

Maybe a belly land will do it.  :P
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2012, 09:08:19 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on January 09, 2012, 08:42:31 PM
Unless the plane was a A-10C or a Black Shark, I don't think any of us "sim-pilots" can land a plane without help from a controller or another pilot. It would take me 30 minutes just to figure out where the landing gear switch is.

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Yea, good luck.

Maybe a belly land will do it.  :P

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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2012, 09:10:42 PM »
Quote from: smoe on January 09, 2012, 08:38:50 PM
I was showing AH2 to a friend of mine who fly's comercial airliners. I performed a nice dead stick landing in a fighter. He seemed surprised at how easy I made it look.

That's because aircraft operations are not modeled in AH, we have no wind, you can safely fly though all other aircraft, and we have unlimited visibility.  ;)
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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2012, 09:14:55 PM »
Quote from: killjoy1 on January 09, 2012, 05:58:39 PM
So I'm sitting in my seat on a Boeing 727 and the stewardess gets on the PA.  "Can anyone land this plane?  Our pilots are incapacitated."  I get up and say, "I've got 10,000 hours of flying flight sims, I can do it!"

Then there is this news piece today.

"A British Airways plane carrying more than 100 passengers was forced to turn back during a flight from London to Glasgow because the two pilots felt light-headed, a spokesman said Monday."

See the problem with that is the odds of both pilots being incapacitated and the cockpit still being in one piece are next to 0. But hey, don't we all practice in the sims for such possibility.

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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2012, 09:23:02 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on January 09, 2012, 08:42:31 PM
Unless the plane was a A-10C or a Black Shark, I don't think any of us "sim-pilots" can land a plane without help from a controller or another pilot. It would take me 30 minutes just to figure out where the landing gear switch is.

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Yea, good luck.

Maybe a belly land will do it.  :P

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Re: Has anybody else ever dreamed of this.
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2012, 09:57:41 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on January 09, 2012, 08:42:31 PM
Unless the plane was a A-10C or a Black Shark, I don't think any of us "sim-pilots" can land a plane without help from a controller or another pilot. It would take me 30 minutes just to figure out where the landing gear switch is.

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Yea, good luck.

Maybe a belly land will do it.  :P

Hoffy's 8 step process to successfully landing a plane with incapacitated pilots:
Step 1. Get plane flying level.
Step 2. Find out how the Radio works and scream for an emergency. 
Step 3. Find the throttle, flaps, and landing gear. (Levers center console for throttle. flaps are probably close to the throttle, landing gear is probably a little switch under a red safety cover marked GEAR).
Step 4. Listen to instructions from the radio.
Step 5. Hope all the engines are working.
Step 6. Pray.
Step 7. Land in one piece.
Step 8. Write book and cash in check, and never ever ever fly on that plane again. :aok
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