Give me a break. NO ONE CAN TAKE A TURBO JET OFF AND FLY LIKE THAT. Wake up!
Fly like what? Do a couple of loops then auger in. It does not take a lot of skill to do that. They have profiles of airplanes very similar to that one available to the public for various flight simulator programs. The people who fly them for a living learn on a simulator first. I live on an airport with two airplanes, many of my neighbors and my brother are professional pilots. It is fine with me that most of the public believes that flying an airplane is some type of black art. It keeps the skies much less crowded. But the truth is that you have no clue what you are talking about.
“Give me a break. NO ONE CAN TAKE A TURBO JET OFF AND FLY LIKE THAT. Wake up!”
When I met my husband he had a twin-engine King Air 350 which is a pretty big airplane. I learned how to start it, set the flaps, release the brakes, taxi, take off, fly, set the autopilot, set the flaps again, land, taxi, set the brakes, and shut it down.
I once flew all the way from Lincoln, California (LHM) to Cody, Wyoming (COD) with Steve in the left seat and me in the right seat and he never touched the controls even once.
It really isn’t that hard. The hard part is trying to listen to all the stuff on the radio, read the charts and know where you can and can’t go, and all that.
Flying the plane is the easy part. It’s so easy I can do it.