you did it in a simulation, what's the worst thing that could have happened to you, fellow pilots make fun of you at the bar?
he did it in real life, he could have died or get some passengers killed.
I just simplified it but you risked nothing and yes it did prepares you for real life. no need to diminish what he did.
semp
Simulators can do things you’ll never see in real life until it happens the first time. By then it may be too late. And frankly, simulators can be much harder to fly than the real thing.
Risked nothing? I risk my career every time I step foot in a simulator. And I risk my life every single time I say, “Check Thrust.”
What he did is what any well-trained pilot would do, but in our society of uninformed reality tv zombies he became the Second Coming. Rather than be humble, he got the big ego stroke and proceeded to wear out his 15 minutes in about six flat. It’s slightly pathetic.
Bravo. Good job. Move along. He believed his own press and became a spectacle—and not for the good.
