I was on a sightseeing trip with my mom and her old friend who's a pilot. At the end of it she wanted to flex how easy it was to land was so she let go of the controls and told my mom to land it, then walked her through it. It was pretty psycho but it was relatively easy.
Air Traffic Control have talked people through the process of flying and landing a plane, it can't be that impossible, right? Looking into it, apparently Rowan Atkinson did it, so that's pretty neat.
Honestly, if you're in a modern jet and the systems are working, you can pretty much tell the plane to fly itself. It'll even land itself with barely anything needing to be done.
Tom Scott has a video where Mentour guides him through it. (in a simulator, of course) Showing that, with a working radio, even someone with zero knowledge can be instructed into activating the auto pilot and landing the plane safely. A subsequent attempt to do it without autopilot did not end so smoothly.
the hardest part about flying a plane is honestly learning all of the rules, which are pretty much all thrown out the window in a situation where an untrained person would have to land a plane
It's wild how quickly and how high his confidence rises as his imagination takes over. Started out basically as "no" then ran through how he could actually fly the whole flight from takeoff to landing, then MADE UP A PILOT to agree with him!
Private pilot here: We actually do use Microsoft flight simulator to learn the controls of the plane and learn how to navigate and plenty of other things. I had no previous practice flying so it can be really scary when you get into the plane for the first time. (Most schools use Cessnas because they resist rookies fuck-ups more than any other planes, like hard landings and such) I remember one time practicing so much a technique to locate yourself without a radar, only using coordinates. And when it was time for the actual real-plane test, I nailed so fucking hard that my captain was impressed. All I did was simulate it in MFS over and over and over again.
I completely agree with his take, it's just the way people quantify "flight hours" makes it sound insanely long. No one says "a java developer needs one thousand hours in an IDE before they even let them TOUCH a codebase". You need what like 1500 hours to fly commercial? Back of the napkin math: 20hrs flying per week, 50 weeks in a year but let's say you only go to school half of that, that's 500hrs of flight a year. So it's just the hours a regular degree would take?
You need 40 hours for Private and 200 (some countries will require 300h) for commercial. The hours basically dictate who is the "lead" captain and who is the co-pilot. Call it a... Herarchy thing, sort of.
Not many jobs will get you flying 20 hours a week. More accurate is 10 but yeah pretty close. And in the US it's 1500 hours to be a first officer. Rest of the world is only around 250
these planes fly themselves and air traffic controlm woudl guide you, it cant actually be that hard. The people that say he couldnt do it are the samer that clap after the plane lands
As much as this was treated as a crazy take by twitch chat, it really does seem reasonable. Give him a mcdonalds sprite and I bet he could even do it with his eyes closed
Honestly, I think NL is under selling his ability to land a plane, at least if it were a commercial airliner. Them shits kinda land themselves (not literally but kinda). As long as he had Air Traffic on the horn, they'd be able to walk him through it live
tbh I think he's underestimating his odds, if you can figure out how to use mfsf you can fly a plane lol and in the cessna example, not only is the pilot supposed to tell you how to land in an emergency before you even take off but the atc will tell you how to get to the ground if you need help
My dad is a pilot he always complains about getting a shit landing or how much better his landings are than a co pilot so I’m pretty sure its more of a smoothness thing than a up in flames or not situation
I think it's more the consequences of fucking up rather than being particularly difficult - if you fuck up, a plane full of people die. It's like, is flipping a coin a foot in the air and then catching it hard? Not really. But if there's a gun to your head, your job is to flip the coin, and if you miss the flip you get executed? It takes a certain kind of mindset to do that kind of job and not panic when you eventually flub the throw a bit.
People think landing is the most difficult part of flying a plane but taking-off is equally as critical. Both landing and take-off are considered "critical" stages of a flight, you need a certain speed, wingspan angle and vertical speed and the margin of error for these stages, let's just say they are not high... Something goes wrong In the take off and you will be wearing the plane as a hat. (Thats what my captain used to say I found it hilarious)
Microsoft Flight Sim would honestly be the greatest NL banter of all time
Lonely trout man
He used to play it
Then the final part of the exam requires you to rotate a 3D object in your head
Rip to all wordcels
I was on a sightseeing trip with my mom and her old friend who's a pilot. At the end of it she wanted to flex how easy it was to land was so she let go of the controls and told my mom to land it, then walked her through it.
It was pretty psycho but it was relatively easy.
Air Traffic Control have talked people through the process of flying and landing a plane, it can't be that impossible, right?
Looking into it, apparently Rowan Atkinson did it, so that's pretty neat.
Honestly, if you're in a modern jet and the systems are working, you can pretty much tell the plane to fly itself. It'll even land itself with barely anything needing to be done.
Tom Scott has a video where Mentour guides him through it. (in a simulator, of course) Showing that, with a working radio, even someone with zero knowledge can be instructed into activating the auto pilot and landing the plane safely. A subsequent attempt to do it without autopilot did not end so smoothly.
the hardest part about flying a plane is honestly learning all of the rules, which are pretty much all thrown out the window in a situation where an untrained person would have to land a plane
It's wild how quickly and how high his confidence rises as his imagination takes over. Started out basically as "no" then ran through how he could actually fly the whole flight from takeoff to landing, then MADE UP A PILOT to agree with him!
Private pilot here: We actually do use Microsoft flight simulator to learn the controls of the plane and learn how to navigate and plenty of other things. I had no previous practice flying so it can be really scary when you get into the plane for the first time. (Most schools use Cessnas because they resist rookies fuck-ups more than any other planes, like hard landings and such)
I remember one time practicing so much a technique to locate yourself without a radar, only using coordinates. And when it was time for the actual real-plane test, I nailed so fucking hard that my captain was impressed. All I did was simulate it in MFS over and over and over again.
I completely agree with his take, it's just the way people quantify "flight hours" makes it sound insanely long. No one says "a java developer needs one thousand hours in an IDE before they even let them TOUCH a codebase".
You need what like 1500 hours to fly commercial? Back of the napkin math: 20hrs flying per week, 50 weeks in a year but let's say you only go to school half of that, that's 500hrs of flight a year. So it's just the hours a regular degree would take?
You need 40 hours for Private and 200 (some countries will require 300h) for commercial.
The hours basically dictate who is the "lead" captain and who is the co-pilot. Call it a... Herarchy thing, sort of.
Not many jobs will get you flying 20 hours a week. More accurate is 10 but yeah pretty close. And in the US it's 1500 hours to be a first officer. Rest of the world is only around 250
these planes fly themselves and air traffic controlm woudl guide you, it cant actually be that hard. The people that say he couldnt do it are the samer that clap after the plane lands
Took a helicopter tour once and the sensation, at the risk of sounding 4head, was very much like being in a car that could move vertically.
As much as this was treated as a crazy take by twitch chat, it really does seem reasonable. Give him a mcdonalds sprite and I bet he could even do it with his eyes closed
99.9% confidence in the pilots plus Nl’s 51.0% its like a 150.0% chance of you not dying and you ask yourself. “Why doesn’t everybody fly?”
Both my heads would be pegged if this egg played flight simulator
Honestly, I think NL is under selling his ability to land a plane, at least if it were a commercial airliner. Them shits kinda land themselves (not literally but kinda). As long as he had Air Traffic on the horn, they'd be able to walk him through it live
tbh I think he's underestimating his odds, if you can figure out how to use mfsf you can fly a plane lol and in the cessna example, not only is the pilot supposed to tell you how to land in an emergency before you even take off but the atc will tell you how to get to the ground if you need help
good joeling here
My dad is a pilot he always complains about getting a shit landing or how much better his landings are than a co pilot so I’m pretty sure its more of a smoothness thing than a up in flames or not situation
I think it's more the consequences of fucking up rather than being particularly difficult - if you fuck up, a plane full of people die. It's like, is flipping a coin a foot in the air and then catching it hard? Not really. But if there's a gun to your head, your job is to flip the coin, and if you miss the flip you get executed? It takes a certain kind of mindset to do that kind of job and not panic when you eventually flub the throw a bit.
His take about dogs on grocery stores would definitely get dunked
That react court episode was filled with dunkable takes
Now he's GOTTA play flight simulator
yo who has 4000 hours in something and only half the achievements 💀
hm?
the photoshop on the thumbnail
Me in path of exile
It seriously cannot be that hard
Takeoff and landing is relatively the most dangerous tho
I love his anti-gravity mindset, where it’s easier to get the plane up in the air than it is to bring it back down
Well as they say it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
People think landing is the most difficult part of flying a plane but taking-off is equally as critical.
Both landing and take-off are considered "critical" stages of a flight, you need a certain speed, wingspan angle and vertical speed and the margin of error for these stages, let's just say they are not high... Something goes wrong In the take off and you will be wearing the plane as a hat. (Thats what my captain used to say I found it hilarious)
based anti helicopter take
don't the largest airline planes basically land themselves?