"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve A writes:

Spoken bravely by someone who's "crash" will not cause anything more
than re-starting the simulation. It is a bit different when your butt
is strapped into the airplane, moving through real three dimensional
space, and the airplane is out of control.

Yes, if you get hysterical in a real plane, there's a good chance that
you'll kill yourself.

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Msxmanic does have a point in the fact that if you panic and/or get
hysterical during a in-flight emergency there is a good chance that you will
lose total control and crash. However in this case I didn't feel that the
pilot was in panic mode but rather was VERY concerned about the fact that
she couldn't maintain altitude or airspeed and communicated to ATC that she
did indeed have a serious in-flight emergency. I myself think she did a very
good job of keeping control of the aircraft.

It sounds a lot more like hysteria than terror. This surprises me
coming from a commercial pilot.

Doesn't surprise me at all, just because someone has a commercial license
doesn't mean that they are immune to panic. Training for emergencies is the
best way to survive an in-flight emergency but training is training and I
feel doesn't have the same impact as the real thing.

Having said all that I am happy that she survived the ordeal and hopefully
will come away from this a better more experienced pilot!!