All I know is that the full faith and credit of the US government would never, ever Lie to you. Right?
They trained in Cessnas and the like, didn't they ?Originally Posted by jamescollister
How Hard Is It to Fly a 757 or 767?
Reporter :
Dr. Todd Curtis at the controls of a
full motion 757 simulator
"In the wake of the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is clear that one of the key factors in the success of those attacks is that at least one member of each of the four teams of hijackers was a trained pilot. While there is some question as to the amount of flying expertise possessed these these hijackers, there is no indication that any of them had the level of experience or qualifications of an airline pilot. Whatever their level of expertise, it was sufficient to guide three of the four hijacked planes to their targets, causing the deaths of thousands.
Many people have wondered how it could be possible for relatively unskilled pilots to do this. This writer is in a unique position to answer that question. I am a licensed pilot of very limited experience, with just under 100 hours in small, single- engine training aircraft such as the Cessna 172. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to take a short course on the 757 that included classroom training, individual computer based training, and about five hours in a full-motion simulator. This high fidelity simulator was the same kind of that airline pilots use in their initial training or to simulate a wide range of emergency procedures.
After about a week of training, I was familiar with the layout of the flight deck and with the operation of the flight controls, autopilot, and navigation systems. As a result, flying the simulator was much less difficult than I had imagined at the beginning of the course. The most difficult part of the simulator training was takeoffs and landings. On the other hand, flying the aircraft in other phases of flight was relatively easy, even compared to flying a Cessna 172. Changing the aircraft's course, speed, or altitude was not very difficult when using either the autopilot system or when flying the aircraft manually. The flight control system made the aircraft rather responsive and made it easy to perform normal flying manuvers.
Given my experiences in the simulator, I feel that if I were to be put into a 757's cockpit in the middle of a flight on a relatively clear and sunny day, I would be able to change direction and altitude without any trouble. Given a basic knowledge of a region's geography and of available navigational aids, I would also be able to navigate well enough that I could find a major city and fly the aircraft to any major landmark in that city. Because the basic cockpit layout and many of the procedures used in the 757 are almost identical to those of the 767, I feel that the same would be true for a 767.
In short, I believe that any person who has earned a private pilot's license and who has access to the same kind of ground school and simulator training that I received could fly a 757 or 767 well enough to hit a large building. Given the wide availability of this kind of training, it would appear that the kind of terrorist actions that took place in New York and Washington could easily be repeated in the future."
Flying A 757/767 Was Quite Easy For Wtc Terrorists Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
Speaking as a glider pilot, flying into WTC would be as difficult as falling off a log. Pentagon however- impact point 12 feet off the ground or so(?)- much more difficult proposition.Originally Posted by Latindancer
You are completely delusional
No wreckage from AA77 at the Pentagon on 9-11? Really??!?
snopes.com: Pentagon Attack Faked Rumor
and that plane that the gov said the passengers forced down, all an illusion
that's rich coming from you after you got ass raped by everyone in the "valve" thread,Originally Posted by Latindancer
like I said, you have a tendency to brush over facts and live in an alternate reality, the defense of a weak brain
were you there personally to witness it all ? from the tone of your post, I assume yesOriginally Posted by DrAndy
it's on snopes so it must be trueOriginally Posted by TonyBKK
jesus, with mental retards like that, we are all meat to political sharks and their government agencies
You sure like to call people retards, but I don't think I've ever seen you post a single original intelligent thing on this forum...
Snopes is just one of dozens of sites that do an effective job of poking holes in the conspiracy nutters' theories.
Conspiracy nuts like ENT refuse to see the truth even if it's right in front of them. Claiming there's no evidence that an American Airlines 757 hit the Pentagon on 9-11 is delusional.
those pics doesn't look like anything on a 757,Originally Posted by TonyBKK
maybe you are the one who refuse to see the truth,
can't wait to see the security cameras view of the crash from the most secure and highly camera'd building in the world. This will prove it one was or another once and for all.
Oh.
You can see how the aluminium debris landed on the Pentagon lawn, here,.....
Just watch that little white puff of smoke on the lawn, just between the Pentagon and the helipad....
See the debris hurled up into the air from the initial; "white smoke cloud" explosion, how it hangs inthe air before slowly clearing, larger bits of debris falling first from the lower of three groups of airborne debris.
Where's the rest of it??
Only one engine and rotor case, both too small for an engine from a Boeing 757,.....so where did the other engine disappear to?
A single wheel, a landing gear strut, some CLEAN SCRAP ALUMINIUM,....all of it unverified, no parts numbers,
The Cockpit Voice Recorder wouldn't cough all the necessary information, but only one found......
That lot doesn't constitute enough evidence to prove the identity of even a single engined aircraft, let alone AA Flt 77!!!!
Last edited by ENT; 04-10-2013 at 05:55 AM.
Just be aware that in real life, ENT is a schizophrenic who is unable to differentiate between fantasy and reality. Currently he's off his meds.
And Butterfly is known as the forum's bitchy trolling poo-packer.
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