airplane+pilot not alive=are we going to die?

Question

if you were 44,000ft from the ocean and 50 min has passed and the both pilot(s) were dead or had an heart attack would you trust a 18 year old guy that has no clue about flying a 747, or a 13 year old boy that has been playing fsx for almost 1 1/2 years to fly it to a closest airport? becuase i am always dreaming some guy had hijacked a cathy pacific 747 towards TPE from SFO durning that flight the pilot(s) were dead, and i flew it back to sfo... (weird dream) except there was alot of cash....

oh.. and the worst senario would be 25mph crosswinds, brakes dont work, speed brakes down, reverse thrust gone, gears not working,airplane on fire, engines stop, no power, foggy day, oh and fire on all four engines....

and... 3,000 ft good enought?

Answer 1

This is not a likely scenario, but it is the stuff of which dreams are made and has been the subject of a couple of movies (including the original Airplane).

I would trust myself in the pilot's seat, since I also have been on flight sims and have pilot's certificates including instrument and commercial. I would be glad to have one or both of these kids in the cockpit, one in the co-pilot's seat, to help.

At 44,000 feet the first thing you would need to do is get down to a more reasonable altitude.

Then you try to find a suitable airport or other landing place. I would not go to SFO unless I were pretty comfortable with my ability to handle the airplane. I would head for Edwards AFB and Rogers Dry Lake where they landed the first shuttles and where the rocket planes all landed. This is one landing you want to get right on the first try.

Answer 2

Who mentioned it was once rough? Richard Bach as soon as made the remark that his grandmother might have flown the National Guard jet fighter he was once flying on the time. The exact act of flying a airplane isn't that problematic - out of the entire elements of being a pilot, manipulating the controls is by and large the simplest and so much fulfilling aspect of the procedure. There had been many debts of individual plane being landed through a passenger and not using a coaching in any respect, instead of instructional materials from the bottom, after the pilot grew to be disabled in the course of flight. A few years in the past there have been a quantity of flights around the US performed with ever more youthful kids as the only real manipulator of the controls (however with an teacher within the proper seat) in an try to set the list for the youngest to fly a airplane. The main issue was once that one among them died considering of deficient judgment through the adults within the airplane. Any 12 yr historical can gain knowledge of the way to take off and land a airplane - that is now not difficult, nevertheless it does now not make you a pilot. The different locations: studying plane methods, climate, aerodynamics, navigation, laws, and so much importantly, the way to make well choices, that is the rough aspect. Flying the airplane? That's the convenient aspect.

Answer 3

I've got to agree with Warren. If you and I were in that situation, me as a PPL with an instrument rating, commercial written test and air traffic controller control tower operator certificate test under my belt, I'd eb glad to have you right seat and fly the radios. No offense but just you and you're all dead. FSX is great, all good and fun and a decent instrument flight training platform, but the airplanes don't handle quite properly, you have no feedback as far as how the weight feels on the aeleron. Again, I'm not trying to be mean, but with only FSX experience, I doubt you could land even a Cessna 182. So you get in that situation, how do you uncouple the auto throttle? You can't point and click in a real cockpit. Heck even if ATC assigns a PAR approach, do you know what happens if you activate the slats? Are you prepared for the flight charecteristic changes with flaps deployed? Can you fly a standard rate or half standard rate turn to accomidate the approach? Bottom line is the Garmin GPS they put in FSX in all the airliners is nothing like the flight management systems on those aircraft, it takes pilots with 20,000 hours weeks to learn how to use a different FMS when the transition from one model to another. It isn't just dial in the auto pilot via a mouse and go. Could you get to the airport? Yeah probably with a little help from a type rated B747 pilot on the radio. Could you make a survivable landing, just you in the flight deck, no. The best case senerio is 5% of those on board live if you manage to not wallow in ground effect .

Answer 4

With some luck u may survive but the chances are you will die with everyone on board.

Answer 5

Didn't you see Snakes On A Plane? Trust the kid with the video-game experience.

Answer 6

Huh???

Answer 7

you're dead, dude