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re: How hard is it to fly an airliner?
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:30 am to 777Tiger
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:30 am to 777Tiger
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lots of ignorant, over simplified observations up in here but it's the OT, I expect nothing less
Worked at a flight ops intern summer of 2012. We got a 10 hour(ish) ground school and 4 hours (2 PIC 2 SIC) hours in the 737 sim. Basically they give you a traditional take off, traditional landing, and then they give you a few things like engine out after VR, wind shear on final, stuff like that. I had around 150 hours when I interned.
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Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:35 am to TheDeathValley
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Worked at a flight ops intern summer of 2012. We got a 10 hour(ish) ground school and 4 hours (2 PIC 2 SIC) hours in the 737 sim. Basically they give you a traditional take off, traditional landing, and then they give you a few things like engine out after VR, wind shear on final, stuff like that. I had around 150 hours when I interned.
I was ferrying a 777 from a maintenance base to DFW a couple of years ago, an eager to learn intern mysteriously showed up at the maintenance hangar and wanted to ride along, I said "ride? I'm going to put your arse to work!" threw him in the right seat and let him "fly" it to DFW, my wife probably has about 50 hours in the 777 from ferry flights
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:35 am to CHSTigersFan
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It didn't end well I'm assuming because he didn't stay at Holiday Inn Express the night before the theft err stunt.
That depends. If he wanted to die then it ended pretty well. The audio crazy. I can't tell if he is mentally insane or disoriented from cabin conditions.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:48 am to 777Tiger
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lots of ignorant, over simplified observations up in here but it's the OT, I expect nothing less
You are just salty we don't view your career choice as a difficult profession. You got a ton of responsibility doing a dreadfully repetitive task that can have long stretches of nothing going on, so that is something.
Seriously though, safety wise, it's a lot to put up with.
This post was edited on 1/22/20 at 11:50 am
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:51 am to Eli Goldfinger
I'm like 80% certain I could fly an airliner if we're talking about flying it while it's cruising. If I make it past the first ten minutes or so, I think I'd have it made until it's time to slow down, descend, and land. I'm 128.44% certain I'd die in a fiery conflagration trying to get it back on the ground.
Flying's not all that difficult once the plane's already flying. Taking off, landing, and knowing what to do when the red lights start coming on is the hard part.
Flying's not all that difficult once the plane's already flying. Taking off, landing, and knowing what to do when the red lights start coming on is the hard part.
This post was edited on 1/22/20 at 11:58 am
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:52 am to Dam Guide
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You are just salty we don't view your career choice as a difficult profession
not hardly, it's just most of the assumptions/observations posted are just so far off, but it's a discussion board, who cares? for example, an F-15 is easy af to fly if that's all you want to do with it
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:55 am to X123F45
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Absorbing their power was the only way my big arse could do the cartwheel
At least someone got the shitty joke.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:56 am to 777Tiger
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my wife probably has about 50 hours in the 777 from ferry flights
You've put the autopilot on and joined the mile high club, haven't you?
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:57 am to TigerstuckinMS
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I'm 128.44% certain I'd die in a fiery conflagration trying to get it back on the ground.
better than 350%
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:57 am to TigerstuckinMS
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At least someone got the shitty joke.
Not shitty. Just too clever for most.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:59 am to 777Tiger
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How hard is it to fly an airliner?quote:You are just salty we don't view your career choice as a difficult profession not hardly, it's just most of the assumptions/observations posted are just so far off, but it's a discussion board, who cares? for example, an F-15 is easy af to fly if that's all you want to do with it
Nobody is going to assume that just flying an F-15 is the same as using it in combat though. I say a lot of this board is familiar with systems management on expensive equipment with all the plant baws.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:59 am to LCA131
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Not shitty. Just too clever for most.
Clever? You have me mistaken for someone else.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:59 am to TigerstuckinMS
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You've put the autopilot on and joined the mile high club, haven't you?
more like the 8 mile high club
Posted on 1/22/20 at 12:02 pm to Dam Guide
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I say a lot of this board is familiar with systems management on expensive equipment with all the plant baws.
and all of that equipment is bolted to terra firma
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