Originally Posted By: jeepman3071
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
EXACTLY!
Thus why its interesting. Especially when you consider 9/11, or the possibility that this was a takeover... Really? So some marginally trained folks who can maybe handle a cessna at best somehow can do anything (short of crashing directly) with a jet airliner??
Doubtful.
I think that was one of the things that was so troubling about 9/11. The guys who took over the planes were definitely not skilled pilots, but they had enough training to point and shoot the aircraft to where they wanted. They also never communicated with ATC, and their intentions were not to land the plane safely, but they had enough skill to hit a target.
Astro's point is clear when you look at flight 93. The passengers took back the plane, but it ended up crashing in a field anyway.
The points others have made about video games are right on key as well. You can play flight simulator for thousands of hours, but that doesn't mean you know how to handle an aircraft in real life. The yoke and controls don't handle similar to the computer keys.
I don't think for a minute that is true....they HAD to be skill pilots to fly into the twin towers....that's an insult.
Either the media deployed their background skills as in one year flight school training in the US playing dumb(dumb Arabs stereotype) did they have training in other countries....why train in the US in a language that is foreign to them or a second language where communication misinterpertation could had occur?
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
EXACTLY!
Thus why its interesting. Especially when you consider 9/11, or the possibility that this was a takeover... Really? So some marginally trained folks who can maybe handle a cessna at best somehow can do anything (short of crashing directly) with a jet airliner??
Doubtful.
I think that was one of the things that was so troubling about 9/11. The guys who took over the planes were definitely not skilled pilots, but they had enough training to point and shoot the aircraft to where they wanted. They also never communicated with ATC, and their intentions were not to land the plane safely, but they had enough skill to hit a target.
Astro's point is clear when you look at flight 93. The passengers took back the plane, but it ended up crashing in a field anyway.
The points others have made about video games are right on key as well. You can play flight simulator for thousands of hours, but that doesn't mean you know how to handle an aircraft in real life. The yoke and controls don't handle similar to the computer keys.
I don't think for a minute that is true....they HAD to be skill pilots to fly into the twin towers....that's an insult.
Either the media deployed their background skills as in one year flight school training in the US playing dumb(dumb Arabs stereotype) did they have training in other countries....why train in the US in a language that is foreign to them or a second language where communication misinterpertation could had occur?
