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To: wastedyears

Ok sport. I’ve done both and I say it is. You can indeed give someone time in most modern flight sims and teach them to control an aircraft in flight quite successfully.

But in any case, your concern was how the pilot skimmed the ground in the Pentagon attack. The pilot of flight 77 was well trained.
“Hanjour first came to the United States in 1991, enrolling at the University of Arizona, where he studied English for a few months before returning to Saudi Arabia early the next year. He came back to the United States in 1996, studying English in California before he began taking flying lessons in Arizona. He received his commercial pilot certificate in 1999, and went back to his native Saudi Arabia to find a job as a commercial pilot. Hanjour applied to civil aviation school in Jeddah, but was turned down. Hanjour left his family in late 1999, telling them that he would be traveling to the United Arab Emirates to find work. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden or Mohammed Atef identified Hanjour at an Afghanistan training camp as a trained pilot and selected him to participate in the September 11 attacks”

By the way, the average Kamakaze pilot had about 40 hours of training.


170 posted on 10/03/2021 9:54:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: DesertRhino

LOL You really believe that?

The media and democrats also tell us that 2020 was the most secure election ever, and that Biden had the most votes ever.


185 posted on 10/03/2021 10:05:00 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DesertRhino

Ok sport. I’ve done both and I say it is. You can indeed give someone time in most modern flight sims and teach them to control an aircraft in flight quite successfully.


I can’t say anything about 10’ off the ground, but I can say that with no flight training, and a bit of understanding of aerodynamics from science class, that I was able to take a cargo plane through a pair of course headings while maintaining altitude with no trouble, as well as an altitude change, with only a verbal explanation once I got into the seat of which pair of instruments to watch while carrying out the maneuver. It is an amazingly simple thing to do. It is the landing, taking off, and responding to surprises that are difficult.

That didn’t even take a sim.


331 posted on 10/04/2021 12:41:41 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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