How hard is it really to fly an commercial plane?
Posted by MidnightNinja9@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 11 comments
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Also how easy or hard is it to perfect it or be abe to fly it with full confidence?
HokieAero@reddit
20 years of boredom interspersed with a few minutes of sheer terror.
TY5ieZZCfRQJjAs@reddit
An jet
Leidaguffey@reddit
Flying a 737 normally is easy, the hard part is knowing what to do when shit hits the fan.
60TP@reddit
If something hits the fan you have to shut that engine down
Leidaguffey@reddit
Don't forget the emergency checklist.
MidnightNinja9@reddit (OP)
Oh dear :( that sort of makes me a bit scared as it's the one I have to fly in the most, but glad that at least it's easy to fly for pilots
NoPhotograph919@reddit
95% of training is knowing what to do when shit goes south. Pilots are paid handsomely to be good at this. Also, they’re going to be the first to die in any crash, so they’ve got a lot of incentive to help you live too.
Trifle_Old@reddit
Any aircraft is mostly the same way. It’s fairly simply unless there is an emergency. That’s why you train and train and train.
FlyingLongHorns1@reddit
A320 is the least difficult plane I’ve flown. I have had no major failures…guess I should count on it happening now
FZ_Milkshake@reddit
If everything goes alright it is not difficult, you need to know and follow a lot of procedures, but that is the same in quite a few other professions. But judging pilots by the difficulty of an uneventful flight would be like judging a Rallye driver for their parking skills.
If stuff goes wrong, pilots are expected to have memorized a variety of emergency actions, have the training and presence of mind to remain calms, start troubleshooting, find and follow the correct written emergency checklists and fly an aircraft in a situation or configuration they probably have only encountered in a simulator before.
Deer-in-Motion@reddit
I presume you're including all the years of training and experience necessary in your question?