"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message news:Ayqwc.7120

John, did you ever get to do one for real?

Nope. From intro flight to 747, I never had a catastrophic failure of any
kind. I'd love to think skill and professionalism had something to do with
it, but nobody would buy that song -- particularly the guy in the mirror.
Just pure good luck. :-) Had a few system failures, and a few
precautionary landings, but nothing officially an emergency. How dull.