thepotato232
Well-Known Member
Didnt Mythbusters have a show where they talked a non-pilot through an autoland on an Airbus sim? Its interesting, referencing the Single Pilot Airliner thread, but I think non-pilots would be in much bigger trouble in the C-402 than in an A320.
Watch that episode again. It looks to me like the "Air Traffic Controller" (sim instructor) is looking not at a mockup of an ATC radar screen as he issues instructions, but at a display showing current, streaming replications of the A320's primary flight instruments as seen by Adam and Jamie. He might as well have been sitting in the instructor's seat in the sim. As we all know, getting the play-by-play from a qualified pilot who can see your every move is more than a little different from the hypothetical "getting talked down" by ATC.