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Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:50 pm to X123F45
The answer is no to both, especially if the plane in question is a tail dragger
Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:53 pm to X123F45
Sure. I mean how hard could it be?
Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:53 pm to X123F45
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Former pilot for Governor EE.
Pretty good bet we know a few of the same folks.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:56 pm to X123F45
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I've flown to scale RC planes wired into a sit in cockpit simulator. Seemed pretty intuitive.
Have never successfully taken off heli.
Wildly different thrust to weight ratios. You have to manage your inertia much differently.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 8:05 pm to crispyUGA
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Helicopter:
-frick NO
you and just about 99.9% of the rest of the world.
its a totally different ballgame.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 8:12 pm to X123F45
Back when things were simple a lot of people learned to fly Piper Cubs and similar simple planes out of grass fields on farms, or small county airports. From what I have been told the average person could solo, meaning take off, circle the field, and land after 5-6 hours of instruction. Same thing could be done today, but you are usually burdened with also learning airport, and radio procedures, basic navigation, and a bunch of other stuff before soloing, increasing the average to around 16-18 hours.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 8:13 pm to X123F45
quote:Take off maybe/probably.
I say could take off, fly, and land a small aircraft.
There's an old joke in aviation that goes, "Any landing you can walk away from is a successful landing."
Not sure many people could successfully land a plane with no training and "walk away" from it.
I was a flight instructor many years ago, flew 727's, have my ATP and 5000+ hours, so I'm not talking out of my arse.
This post was edited on 10/26/17 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 10/26/17 at 8:22 pm to X123F45
Plane maybe. Helicopter no fricking way.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 9:21 pm to X123F45
Considering I have flown two planes without any formal training, yes. Yes I think I could
Posted on 10/26/17 at 9:25 pm to X123F45
Sure....easily
Posted on 10/26/17 at 10:05 pm to Tesla
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Pretty good bet we know a few of the same folks
Pretty good bet we both know ol fatty bear
Posted on 10/26/17 at 10:07 pm to Tesla
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Wildly different thrust to weight ratios. You have to manage your inertia much differently.
Seems like the plane would be much slower to respond.... And require wild amounts more throttle.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 10:07 pm to ljhog
i don't know about a plane but I've been on angle one the copper for arkansas children's hosptial on a number of different instances. i think i can at least get the fricker off the ground and go somewhere. landing is a different story
Posted on 10/26/17 at 10:15 pm to EA6B
I will add that while I have never flown a plane, I have a natural and instinctual understanding of the dimensions and limitations of machinery.
It may sound silly, but even a para glider was fairly easy to understand.
It may sound silly, but even a para glider was fairly easy to understand.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 10:29 pm to X123F45
I have thousands of hours in a bunch of different types of airplanes and if I tried to fly a helicopter I'd be dead in less than 30 seconds
Posted on 10/26/17 at 11:13 pm to vengeanceofrain
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don't know about a plane but I've been on angle one the copper for arkansas children's hosptial on a number of different instances. i think i can at least get the fricker off the ground and go somewhere.
Would pay good money to watch you try to take off
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:37 am to X123F45
No way you could fly helicopter with no training
Posted on 10/27/17 at 7:30 am to chinhoyang
Who took the picture of my Mike Model?
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