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Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by asdfman123 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:07PM (#31344367)
There's nothing magic about flying. At the end of the day it's relatively simple.

The difficult part is being absolutely certain you're trained well enough to not crash the thing.

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Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by robscallsign on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:18PM (#31346624)
... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, etc.
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