Can anyone tell me being a pilot u can fly any palne? Or?

Question

U need to get trained to fly an A320, Boieng 747/737 or a bombardier and a war plane. Tell me is it like an automobile where u can drive any car. Here the orientation to a particular flight is permanant or only temprovary.

For instance u r regularly flying an Airbus 320 and suddenly one day due to an emergency in the air u r supposed to take control of a boieng 747. would the pilot able fly safely or he need help. Compare this also with Mig-29 and an F-16 can they swap their planes or a commercial pilot over fighter plane pilot. Thanks in advance for the answers.

Answer 1

Not any plane...

Answer 2

You need ratings for diffrent airplanes. Evan a 727 pilot cannot legally fly a 737. All ratings have to be current, if u have not flown a perticular type for a very long time then you do check flights or a refresher.

In any emergency a 320 pilot would have a fairly good chance 90% of landing a 747, since he already has the basic knowledge & there are flight mannuals to which all pilots refer to. A pilot straight from a mig to a 747 has a 50% chance. a pilot from a 747 to a mig 15% cahance.

Answer 3

Being a pilot you cannot fly any type of aircraft, as far as the smaller aircraft when you are just a private pilot you usually just need a checkout in the aircraft with a flight instructor. Which just consists of a couple of takeoffs and landings.

When you get to the large aircraft you need to got to training for the type of aircraft, the training is done at a facility where you go to ground school and training in a simulator. There are quite a few of those training facilities though out the country (Flight Safety, Simcom, Simuflite - to name a few). Once you pass the class you get a Type Rating for that particular aircraft.

As far as the Mig-29 and F-16 I am not sure on those aircraft as they are military type planes, I would think the procedure is the same where you are trained in a specific aircraft and switching planes would not a be a common thing.

Answer 4

All aircraft that are turbine powered or over 12,566 lbs Gross Weight require specific type training by law. (Canadian regs)

Smaller and less complex aircraft are covered by blanket ratings (for example, I can fly all non-high performance, single and multi engine, land and sea airplanes with my license). But insurance companies will usually (but not always) require a checkout on specific aircraft.

Also, for carrying passengers commercially on a multi-engined aircraft, any size, the regs require the pilot has a pilot-proficiency-check which is basically a flight test on that specific aircraft. Some companies (airlines typically) also do there own company checks or are authorized to PPCs.

For emergencies, most pilots would be competant to return an airliner to earth in a condition that most of the passengers would survive (providing the weather is good and there aren't systems failures). Knowing the power settings and airspeeds would be a big help. And also where all the buttons are.

Answer 5

First off their are many categories of licensing starting with "private pilot" which is the bottom of the pile. Then you can add instrumentation and other upgrades to commercial pilot through many hours of classroom and flight training.
As for flying any plane I suppose it's possible because many commercial jet pilots are former military pilots. However, training is required on each aircraft you fly.

Answer 6

Now, if you are an airline pilot, like what I want to do. You start off with the express aircraft. Like the Bombardiers, CRJ's, DH8's and ERJ's. With time, you may choose, or the airline may choose to get you more training, to fly larger airliners, like the A320's, B737's, B747's, and stuff. No, it is not like driving a car. Try playing flight simulators, you are up at 35,000 feet, going 529 MPH, you make 1 mistake, with 200 passangers lives in your hands.

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Answer 7

not really any place but they'll have some type of experience like they'll know how to set the flaps and everything but not the type of plane they're used to it'll take a little while but every plane has preety much the same settings but just differs on the size of the plane and technology involved etc.

Answer 8

fighter planes are totaly different to airliners.you need to get checked out for each type of aircraft that you want to fly,otherwise you will have pilots getting out of a cesnor 172 into your mig-29.i fly gliders if i wanted to fly a microlight i would have to go on a diffrent course.

Answer 9

FLYING PLANES (JETS) IS NO GAME........
NO CAR FLIES AT 40,000 FEET AT 600 MPH.

PRINCIPLES OF FLYING IS SAME--NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE FLYING.

BUT ONE DOES NOT NORMALLY JUST FROM F15/16 INTO A MIG OR PASSENGER JEST WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING.

BEING A PILOT SURELY MAKES IT EASY TO ADJUST
BUT ONLY IN DIRE EMERGENCY WOULD ONE ATTEMPT TO FLY AN ACFT ONE IS NOT TOTALLY FAMILAR WITH.

Answer 10

For those Jets you need a type rateing for that aircraft you need to be trained for that aircraft and its system's.

Answer 11

You need a type rating for each A/C over 12,500 lbs