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If I’m useless and going to die I’ll just turn off autopilot which is easy enough and start doing barrel rolls etc
Might as well make the most of it right.

Not a jet but still impressive…
https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-w ... y-12610638

The autopilot on an A320 can land the plane, so make mine another G&T and everything will be fine...

...if it's set up, which wouldn't happen at the start of the flight.

I've got (..checks Pooley's log) 14 hours of flying logged but of that 8 is primarily aeros which is probably not particularly helpful (can you stall turn an A320?). That being said, I know the principles of both take off and landing (I've done both on my own pretty much unguided albeit with an instructor next to me) but an A320 is a very different beast to the Cessna 152 or Piper PA-28s that I've flown. I reckon I could get it down safely with some guidance.

I quite fancy doing the flight simulator experience at this place - https://www.ascentaviation.co.uk/

Mito Man wrote: Wed May 11, 2022 5:29 pm Not a jet but still impressive…
https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-w ... y-12610638

Mentour Pilot takes you through it here.

https://youtu.be/c-W2cnnLSTM

Tom Scott must read this forum. Or is good friends with Mik.



So an autopilot landing looks just about doable, providing you can find the buttons/dials/switches the air traffic control are asking you to adjust.

Manual landing, you dead!

I dunno, seems a shame there weren’t accurate crash physics, in the grand scheme of things it didn’t look too awful. Ok the plane would be broken beyond repair, but some people might have survived

Great video

Initial thoughts.

1. I had to dispel mental images of @IanF doing an autopilot landing with his feet up on the dash whilst sooking on the straw of his pina colada, sunglasses firmly In place.

2. Tom did OK on the manual approach, but hey…. I don’t know. You could probably do it a little better eh? If I had sufficient fuel for example and I realised I wasn’t going to make the runway, I’d like to think I’d Abort and go around again rather than attempt to out it down on a taxi way.

3. It’s really tricky to talk someone through anything like this. Imagine how hard it would be to talk via walk-in talkie to instruct someone to drive a car (with manual box of course) for the first time, approach your house and slow down to enter and then park on your drive. There are just so many things that need to happen either simultaneously or in quick succession that you’d be spitting like a pro rapper… and I recognise that planes are a smidegeypoo more tricky than cars.

Like I said - great video.

Christ. Look for the kink in the fuselage when you deplane.

I’d push the button that lands the plane in auto pilot mode