How to Land a 737

[Milefest]

This was making the rounds on social media yesterday:

[video=youtube;UqcXstB7UJ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqcXstB7UJ0[/video]

Not sure how accurate it is, but definitely interesting.

 

[Boca68]

I'm not a pilot, but even I feel its a little over simplified.

If you could remain that calm, wonderful. But I doubt that I would remain that calm.

Yes, I play with Microsoft Flight Simulator, but in no way do I think I could do this with any degree of confidence. Only flaw I could find, well, not really a "flaw", but how easy it seemed to be for the 737 to line up with the runway. Never happens for me on the sim..lol.

Love to hear any of the Airline pilots thoughts on this.

Thanks Milefest, did enjoy that.

 

[harvyk]

So that's looking like the default FSX 737. I'll put it to you this way, I used to "fly" the default FSX planes, and was pretty good at flying them. Then I stepped up the realism with a more sophisticated simulator (my case PMDG's 747, an extremely accurate simulator), and I realised just how little I truly knew.

FSX is a game, nothing more, in fact I've heard flight schools don't tend to like FSX "pilots" as they come in with an over-inflated sense of their skills.

 

[jb747]

If the autopilot disconnects, you're not going to land. Crash, but not land...

I'll bet that about 99% would accidentally disconnect the a/p way back at the start when they tried to use the radio.

 

[Awesom Andy]

If the autopilot disconnects, you're not going to land. Crash, but not land...

I'll bet that about 99% would accidentally disconnect the a/p way back at the start when they tried to use the radio.

Any chance they can engage the autopilot again?

 

[jb747]

A passenger...? Unlikely. Not impossible, but the aircraft would have to be in a stable situation, and the modes that it engages in wouldn't necessarily be the same as it started in.

 

[Boris spatsky]

We used to let non pilots fly the C130 sim in the old days in the military. Some had had plenty of goes before. The majority crashed short of the runway; the others crashed off the side. I never saw one get close to landing it, and these guys deal with aviation everyday and many had tried multiple times. This was of course without autopilot (half the challenge), but nonetheless it proved to be an interesting exercise. This was a full fidelity sim, the same as the airlines use (in fact, probably newer).

 

[Quickstatus]

When the system relies on Microsoft you often get blue screen of death. Unfortunately or otherwise control alt delete does not work in real aircraft

 

[Quickstatus]

So that's looking like the default FSX 737. I'll put it to you this way, I used to "fly" the default FSX planes, and was pretty good at flying them. Then I stepped up the realism with a more sophisticated simulator (my case PMDG's 747, an extremely accurate simulator), and I realised just how little I truly knew.

FSX is a game, nothing more, in fact I've heard flight schools don't tend to like FSX "pilots" as they come in with an over-inflated sense of their skills.

mh370 pilot had a home made sim. Early in the investigation it was postulated in the media he could have simulated various scenarios but it came to nothing

 

[jb747]

....it was postulated in the media

is equal to made up by....

 

[trippin_the_rift]

FSX is a game, nothing more, in fact I've heard flight schools don't tend to like FSX "pilots" as they come in with an over-inflated sense of their skills.

After years of FSX, I stepped into a 747 sim and nothing seemed out of place. Didn't crash either!
I don't doubt flight schools thinking this, however in my very limited experience the only difference was depth perception and using my hands instead of a mouse button.

 

[russ]

FSX is a game, nothing more, in fact I've heard flight schools don't tend to like FSX "pilots" as they come in with an over-inflated sense of their skills.

I've been to flight schools that actively encourage it. A number of instructors have told me that the students are coming in with far superior navigation skills than before. Then again, one instructor recently whinged to me that he had a student that had practised the cross country so many times before flying it that the student was navigating by rote. A quick diversion fixed that right up.

Prior to flying into Sydney, I used to listen to the aviation radio and found it very useful to learn what happened in practice rather than in ERSA (the book.) I got to find out what was worth asking for and what wasn't. This allowed me to spend more time aviating rather than navigating or communicating.

All in all, I think simulation should be encouraged, not discouraged.