You know it and I know it: At some point we've all sat back and imagined if we'd have the smarts and the wherewithal to land a 747 if the pilot was suddenly stricken with a heart attack or something. No shame in admitting it.
Well, if you want to be prepared for that unbelievably unlikely scenario, all you have to do is study this pilot's helpful crash course!
Okay, poor choice of words. But you get what I mean.
[O]ne veteran airline pilot has set about giving passengers a fighting chance of landing an airliner in a fascinating YouTube video filmed in a flight simulator, titled 'How YOU can land a passenger aircraft!'
The creator is Petter Hornfeldt, aka ‘Mentour Pilot'. He has worked as an instructor on the Boeing 737 since 2005 and is a training captain, type-rating instructor and examiner.
The instructional video is just half an hour long, but if for the whole of your life you've had this burning curiosity about landing a big airplane, it'll be 30 minutes well-spent.
And yes, the best part of the whole experience (I mean aside from landing the plane and saving a ton of lives and all) is that you get to play with all those sweet instruments — you know, the little clicky switches and plastic knobs that do all sorts of weird and fun stuff.
