FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Mxsmanic wrote in
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"Jim Macklin" writes:

What they showed with landing the NASA simulator is that any person
with some level experience with a cockpit display can control an
airliner. Most FAA controllers would not have the experience to
describe the cockpit and give useful instruction in how to manually
fly with the autopilot or where the switches are located, or how to
use the radio to even start the "rescue."

FAA controllers can find pilots and put them on the radio, if
required.


Yeah, john wayne, robert stack and randolph scott on speed dial just in
case they all have the fish.


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote in
:

"Jim Macklin" writes:

What they showed with landing the NASA simulator is that any person
with some level experience with a cockpit display can control an
airliner. Most FAA controllers would not have the experience to
describe the cockpit and give useful instruction in how to manually
fly with the autopilot or where the switches are located, or how to
use the radio to even start the "rescue."

FAA controllers can find pilots and put them on the radio, if
required.


Yeah, john wayne, robert stack and randolph scott on speed dial just
in case they all have the fish.


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Yeah, john wayne, robert stack and randolph scott on speed dial just
in case they all have the fish.



You forgot Moses, errrr, Charlton Heston.............. ****, anyone that
can be air dropped into a 747 can't be all bad!

"ManhattanMan" wrote in
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Yeah, john wayne, robert stack and randolph scott on speed dial just
in case they all have the fish.



You forgot Moses, errrr, Charlton Heston.............. ****, anyone
that can be air dropped into a 747 can't be all bad!




Great actor.
I never liked the way he did airline pilots. Not enough "oh ****"s.


Bertie