Sad day for Mxsmanic

In article ,
says...


-b- writes:

If you're so keenly interested in aviation, take some flight
lessons, for God's sake.

That isn't practical at the moment.

Easy and cheap - even where you live. Can't fool me.


Today you sit around in a French café with your pals telling them you
would be perfectly able to land an airliner and that you know more about
aviation than most pilots.

I don't go to cafés, and I don't have pals.

I'm afraid I'm not surprised. . .



If you take some lessons, by the time you solo in the lowly
Champ or C152 (and you will get there) you will have, if nothing
else, dispelled the notion that you would be capable of landing
an airliner!

Since these are not airliners, flying in them would tell me nothing about my
ability or inability to land an airliner.

Completely mistaken - couldn't be further from the truth - as usual.


Get help - before we have to read about you in the next hostage crisis,
charitably releasing the last pre-schoolers before taking his own life. . .
Take advantage of the world-famous French medical system and get into
something that can save some of those preschoolers as well as yourself.

In article ,
says...
Dave Doe writes:

He's a pilot.

For which airline?

Does it matter? Maybe no airline, he's still a pilot.

--
Duncan

Dave Doe writes:

Does it matter? Maybe no airline, he's still a pilot.

It matters a lot, since airline pilots are worlds different from mere private
pilots. It's the difference between someone trained in CPR and a
neurosurgeon.

On Mar 1, 5:53*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Varactor writes:
Ohhh sure that's a reliable evaluation. What did they say: "perfect
simulation of the G1000"

No.

So its not accurate then is it...

LOL

In article ,
says...
Dave Doe writes:

Does it matter? Maybe no airline, he's still a pilot.

It matters a lot, since airline pilots are worlds different from mere private
pilots. It's the difference between someone trained in CPR and a
neurosurgeon.

I'd value your opinion, if you were I pilot, but you're not - so I
don't.

--
Duncan

On Mar 1, 2:26*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Mike Ash writes:
Never, ever said it was. All I ever said was that there is a time limit..

There's always a time limit. *But it will typically be extremely generous
compared to the time required to find a qualified instructor.

They need to be in a position where they can be found and called in,
with enough time left over to find an identical airplane (or equivalent
simulator) and talk the guy down.

Unless they live at the North Pole, it shouldn't take too long.

I'm not saying it can't be done. But it is a challenge and it has not
been demonstrated that it can be reliably overcome.

Just getting a large number of airplanes to land safely in poor weather
conditions is a substantial challenge, but air traffic controllers meet that
challenge daily. *The mere fact that it might seem insurmountably difficult to
you doesn't mean that it would be difficult for others.

I've never said that it's impossible, merely that it has not been
demonstrated to be possible ...

Since it has not been demonstrated, asserting that it is difficult has no
greater empirical basis than asserting that it is easy, at best.

... and the gleeful self-assurance demonstrated by both yourself
and the author of the article in question are therefore not backed up by
reality.

Neither is it invalidated by reality.

MX wrote


Just getting a large number of airplanes to land safely in poor weather
conditions is a substantial challenge, but air traffic controllers meet that
challenge daily. The mere fact that it might seem insurmountably difficult to
you doesn't mean that it would be difficult for others.

I would point out controllers get a large number of airplanes to land
safely. All they do is provide seperation so the pilots can land the
airplanes safely.

On Mar 1, 4:11*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Dave Doe writes:
Does it matter? *Maybe no airline, he's still a pilot.

It matters a lot, since airline pilots are worlds different from mere private
pilots. *It's the difference between someone trained in CPR and a
neurosurgeon.

That is really funny. "I, having simulated being a neurosurgeon, am
more qualified than you, having been trained in CPR, to work on this
person whose heart has stopped beating."

See the difference?

Varactor writes:

So its not accurate then is it...

No, it's not. Fortunately, I'm not interested in the G1000.

a writes:

That is really funny. "I, having simulated being a neurosurgeon, am
more qualified than you, having been trained in CPR, to work on this
person whose heart has stopped beating."

See the difference?

No.

a writes:

I would point out controllers get a large number of airplanes to land
safely. All they do is provide seperation so the pilots can land the
airplanes safely.

Before they did that, some pilots never got the opportunity to land.

Seventy years ago, just flying into clouds could spell the end of a commercial
flight.