boeing247 wrote on Jul 6^th, 2012 at 5:28am:

I actually went so far as to find a 737 flight simulator that's open to the public, just about an hour from my house. I'll be planning a visit there...

I see, you are practicing for the emergency case. That's a vital pilot skill, being prepared. Thumbs up.  :)

There's a story of Tex Johnston being a passenger on a plane and realizing that the pilots in front had big trouble fighting the dutch roll tendency of that early jet age thingy. So he went to the cockpit and flew that thing out of the wonky situation. Of course, after 911, he would have struck a massive cockpit door and the plane would just have crashed.  :D Well, to be read with  :P of course.