Well, if there happens to be a particularly attractive woman on the plane, maybe... 


Flight sim enthusiasts have to be the only people who have this secret hope that their plane will get hijacked so that they can overtake the hijackers and fly the plane.

Markoz wrote on Jul 5^th, 2012 at 4:39pm:


The cruelest twist of fate would be if you were in an aircraft that you didn't have in the sim. 

boeing247 wrote on Jul 5^th, 2012 at 3:24pm:


GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!! 

I see, while the rest of the passengers gets upset when the crew reports the FO to be out of order due to the fish, there's this one guy in row 29, wearing that MS FSX shirt, who's smile gets bigger and bigger while thinking 'one more to go!', right?    

boeing247 wrote on Jul 5^th, 2012 at 5:25pm:




On the rw cases, sometimes being very tragic but also amazing.

There was a guy landing a King Air by himself because the real pilot had a heart attack while climbing out to cruise altitude. Now that was a (former?) private pilot, but only on the small single engine planes, not on some twin turbine. Best thing was that his wife and daughters were in the back of the plane, so I guess the guy has a pretty good description of 'high mental pressure' from now on.

Find the video here. The real pilot unfortunately was declared dead later, but the family made it and the guy flew and landed the King Air. The first seconds will give you the pilot's voice, then the passenger reports his trouble and flies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhMom-YHgoU And some text here. http://www.atc-network.com/News/29695/Brian-Norton-and-Dan-Favio-controllers-coa...


And there's a newer case of some 80 year old lady who flew the light twin after her husband died while in control. I can't even imagine the pressure you gain from your loved one just dying in front of you and you then have to take the controls, quickly 'learn to fly' (they've circled over an hour) and then land. Well, that's life and she made it. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-wife-80-lands-plane-dying-pilot-husband/story... Short Video. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46945433#46945433

Me says that even the rw professional pilots will give a honest hats off for those folks. People are amazing at times. 

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

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.  Well, to be read with  of course.