Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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JohnT writes:

Playing a computer game doesn't make you an expert.

Neither does flying a real-world Cessna 172.

Which, of course, you have never ever done.

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JohnT

"Hatunen" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:35:20 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

That depends on what you're claiming to be an expert at.

I don't claim to be an expert at anything, but I'm quite certain that I
know
more about flying a 737 or 747 than the vast majority of pilots who have
flown
only Cessna 172s.

Ohhhh, I see. So you're an expert?


He is an expert at playing computer games in his cupboard in Paris.
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JohnT

On 22/06/10 03:35, Mxsmanic wrote:
Hatunen writes:

That depends on what you're claiming to be an expert at.

I don't claim to be an expert at anything, but I'm quite certain that I know
more about flying a 737 or 747 than the vast majority of pilots who have flown
only Cessna 172s.

Have you ever been at the controls of a real aircraft when it has been
in the air?


--
William Black

These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious
Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes
their passage does so at his own peril.

Hatunen writes:

Ohhhh, I see. So you're an expert?

One scarcely needs to be anything approaching an expert just to know more than
some of the pilots here. I have non-zero knowledge of certain things, which
beats the zero knowledge that I'm up against in many cases.

William Black writes:

Have you ever been at the controls of a real aircraft when it has been
in the air?

No.

JohnT writes:

Which, of course, you have never ever done.

In simulation, often. In real life, never.

Hatunen writes:

It's not a license.

A license is permission to do something. A certificate attests to something.
So it is both a license (because it allows a person to fly) and a certificate
(because it attests to that authorization).

No nanoscopic angels dance upon it, however.

On 22/06/10 12:57, Mxsmanic wrote:
William Black writes:

Have you ever been at the controls of a real aircraft when it has been
in the air?

No.

End of story really, she has...

--
William Black

These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious
Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes
their passage does so at his own peril.

William Black writes:

End of story really, she has...

That's an extremely simplistic viewpoint. It's a bit like saying that anyone
who has ever driven any type of car can automatically drive any type of road
vehicle, while simultaneously saying that anyone who hasn't been behind the
wheel of a car cannot possible know how to drive one. Both notions are
baseless.

On Jun 22, 8:33*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
William Black writes:
End of story really, *she has...

That's an extremely simplistic viewpoint. It's a bit like saying that anyone
who has ever driven any type of car can automatically drive any type of road
vehicle, while simultaneously saying that anyone who hasn't been behind the
wheel of a car cannot possible know how to drive one. Both notions are
baseless.

Dont' you do the same thing saying you simulating flying is the same
as flying a real plane??????????

So in other words everything you post is baseless since you have never
flown a real plane?????????