FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:32:29 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote:

"Jamie and Adam take wing to test if a person with no flight training can
safely land an airplane...
...I presume the plane they attempt to land without training is a 747.
Will be interesting to see if they try the real thing and are not limited
to a simulator.)

Air Progress did an article on that around 1976, well, not a non pilot
but a low time private, based on the premise of Arthur Hailey's
"Runway Zero-Eight". Stuck him in a 727 simulator set up in the
middle of a flight and as I recall, he got it down just fine.

Somehow I doubt the Mythbusters budget runs to a real 747 flight...

-Dana

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