Teen who doesn’t know how to fly tries to steal passenger jet

[reverend1]

he'd never land it. he'd crash it, period. the only way he could make that work is if he knew how to program the autopilot/gps system.
you can program them to take off, navigate, and land at known locations. but even then......you'd need to disengage the autopilot and know how to reverse the thrust and how to effectively use the brakes.

Bro, it was totally easy on Fast and Furious.

 

[OGG]

I now have a morbidly perverse adaptation of a Jerry Reed song stuck in my head...

He's goin' down
Might as well say fuck it
He's gonna do what they say can't be done.

Push your hand hard on the throttle, son never mind them flaps
Gotta get to where my homie's gonna rap.

There's a jet in Texarkana
Gotta fly it to Atlanta
And I'll figure this shit out along the way

He's goin' down...

 

[mongooz]

In Donkeybrain's defense, flying a plane techincally is a matter of pushing buttons and pulling levers.

and rudders and think in 3 dimensions and know what the instruments are and how to use them and.....

 

[parrotheada1a]

He learned how to do it all in flight simulator..... lofl.

 

[DFB]

He learned how to do it all in flight simulator..... lofl.

MS Flight Simulator was good enough to pass ground school.
Good enough for me.

 

[parrotheada1a]

MS Flight Simulator was good enough to pass ground school.
Good enough for me.

I kinda did the same thing, except it was in a helicopter. Then I found out how much it would actually cost to get a helo rated PPL.... that idea more or less withered away.

 

[OGG]

I kinda did the same thing, except it was in a helicopter. Then I found out how much it would actually cost to get a helo rated PPL.... that idea more or less withered away.

Rotor hours are INSANE! when I did my rotor time back in 91, it was $90/hr for a POS Hughes 300 and $60/hr for the instructor. The total cost for certification was more than double my single/fixed cert. I don't know what the hourly is these days, but I can only imagine. BTW, at that same time a C-152 was $28/hr "wet". I was a big spender (actually just BIG), so I opted for a Cherokee 140 at the crazy cost of $32/hr

 

[parrotheada1a]

Rotor hours are INSANE! when I did my rotor time back in 91, it was $90/hr for a POS Hughes 300 and $60/hr for the instructor. The total cost for certification was more than double my single/fixed cert. I don't know what the hourly is these days, but I can only imagine. BTW, at that same time a C-152 was $28/hr "wet". I was a big spender (actually just BIG), so I opted for a Cherokee 140 at the crazy cost of $32/hr

I did my 'exploration' in '99. The school had 2 Robinson R22's with an R44 available for type rating. The R22's went for around 90 per hour, and the instructor was a flat 100/hr. What I got a kick out of was that a 20 minute hands off orientation hop cost the same 90 bucks, but you didn't pay for the instructor. The kick came when it became mandatory to take one of these demos whenever they finished a particular topic, like doing a preflight walkaround. This I only learned from another student.

 

[rickenvox]

I think I could fly a plane if I put my mind to it.

 

[OGG]

"Anyone can learn how to fly a plane, but less than one in a million are pilots."

- Yanos Matiz
1990

 

[rickenvox]

"Anyone can learn how to fly a plane, but less than one in a million are pilots."

- Yanos Matiz
1990

My buddy across the street from me is a pilot. He logs a lot of time in the simulator. Pilots with tons of experience still have certain ratings in emergency situations - meaning some will pull out of a bad storm and some won't.