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Like, I'm on a plane. I don't want to watch Toy Story when I can do that at home, I want to see what the pilots see. And that way every seat has technically a window to look out of.

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[–] debounced@kbin.run 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ILS :-)

But you have to trust the instruments and not become disoriented, takes lots of training and practice.

[–] xilophor@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or Autoland or a HUD landing which both can go down to 0/0, conditions permitting. There's a lot of tools these days that pilots (especially Air Transport Pilots) can use to fly. And yes, all of it requires fairly extensive training.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After watching Mentour Pilot I have an appreciation of just how much training they undergo. It's basically the closest thing we have to a real Starship Enterprise type setting where the captain seems to have an answer to everything that comes up, because that's precisely what they aim for.

[–] KingZog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love Mentour Pilot! I'm sad I live in the US and may never have him as a pilot. It's comforting knowing all the extensive training they go through and how many checklists and systems there are to avoid disasters.

[–] teft@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

And yes, all of it requires fairly extensive training.

Pffft I've played Flappy Bird. How hard can it be?

[–] Zippy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Very few airports are rated for it. Hong Kong is the only one that I know off hand. Mainly because they have so much fog and not great alternatives that they allow it. Very few planes keep up that certification either unless they commonly land in those situations.

That being said, in a crunch, the majority of modern aircraft could likely do it if there was no other choice. Might result in a hard landing and damage but would be survivable.