Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
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.
Might as well make the most of it right.
How about not having a sig at all?
Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
Not a jet but still impressive…
https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-w ... y-12610638
https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-w ... y-12610638
How about not having a sig at all?
Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
The autopilot on an A320 can land the plane, so make mine another G&T and everything will be fine...
Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
...if it's set up, which wouldn't happen at the start of the flight.
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
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.
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
I quite fancy doing the flight simulator experience at this place - https://www.ascentaviation.co.uk/
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
Mentour Pilot takes you through it here.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
https://youtu.be/c-W2cnnLSTM
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
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!
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!
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
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
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
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.
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.
Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
Christ. Look for the kink in the fuselage when you deplane.
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Re: Could you do it? (Not FTAO IanF)
I’d push the button that lands the plane in auto pilot mode