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If you were given the challenge to fly a plane from ny to la

Naer

Naer

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And at the end, you are given 2 trillion dollars

You must fly the plane by yourself and all you get is a manual

Would you do it?
 
sure, but before doing so, i would practice hours on end using microsoft flight simulator.

just need to figure out how to work the autopilot. takeoff and landing would be the only hard part.
 
Naer said:
And at the end, you are given 2 trillion dollars

You must fly the plane by yourself and all you get is a manual

Would you do it?
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Do I get to use a GPS, otherwise I'd have no clue where I'm going and have to fly very low at each town so I can read the name off the water tower. Probably take more than 12 hours. 😛

But yeah, I'd probably try it. Once I can get it in the air and get a feel for how to make it turn, lower, etc it would give me a chance to go through the manuals and try to memorize the most important parts of the landing checklist or at very least try to familiarize myself with where the buttons are like landing gear, flaps and reverse thrusters, if it's one of those huge jets. I would imagine landing is probably the hardest and most risky part, though so would take off, a lot of things can go wrong if you never did it before.

I'd load some episodes of Mayday on my phone so I can watch, I just have to remember not to do the things that those pilots did. :biggrin:
 
Naer said:
A commercial one

If you went to flight school and already know how to fly this thread does't apply to you
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I can fly RC 😛 never been to flight shcool but I belive I could fly a cessna or the like. Commercial airliners wouldn't be as easy but possible. Put me at the end of the runway show me the throttle and I could get up. Getting down hmm, can we do this like at lake edwards where I have like 50 miles to land lol I could do it then.
 
Thebobo said:
I can fly RC 😛 never been to flight shcool but I belive I could fly a cessna or the like. Commercial airliners wouldn't be as easy but possible. Put me at the end of the runway show me the throttle and I could get up. Getting down hmm, can we do this like at lake edwards where I have like 50 miles to land lol I could do it then.
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I took an introductory flight lesson in a Cessna 150 a few years ago. After years of playing flight sims, I knew what all the instruments did. And after years of flying RC, I knew what all the controls did. I just flew around doing turns and level flight. The instructor never had to take over.

I could probable take off no problem. Rotation speed on those things is 60 knots. Landing would be the hardest part. Trying to slow down enough without stalling, plus lining up with the runway. There's also all the ground school stuff you need to know. I've debated getting my PPL or recreational pilot's license but it's very expensive. I shudder to think about what avgas costs now too.

Honestly, my RCs were more difficult to fly than the real thing. Had this big beast of a Sopwith Camel that use to torque roll hard on take off. Flew nice, landed nice, but was scary getting off the ground.
 
As long as it's a plane designed with one man operation in mind.
Otherwise I'd want somebody else on board who also has read the manual. He'll get to work checklists and flip switches and do the comms, while I do the nav.

I think there are few one-man operated planes that will do a NY-LA without stop-overs for refueling.

But the real question is: where does the money come from? You can't just take a trillion out of thin air, it's got to be taken from somewhere...
 
fuck it, most commercial airliners fly themselves. I've played enough flight simulator to pull it off, and for that much money I'd at least give it one hell of go.
 
Naer said:
And at the end, you are given 2 trillion dollars

You must fly the plane by yourself and all you get is a manual

Would you do it?
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If they manual has the flight checklists and whatnot in it sure. It probably isn't that hard to get in the air and by the time I get to LA, I'll know the landing procedure pretty well as far as necessary air speed, flap controls, etc. I'll break every rule with ground control, but if I was honest over the radio and didn't fly over a military base I probably won't get shot down. Whatever consequences for not following air traffic procedures is worth 2 trillion.

I think the real question is how low would people go to do this. I'd probably do it for a few million.
 
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