Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
From your post #5345, above;

"The were not just "barely competent" They had completed full pilots training courses at a certified flying schools and been granted pilots licenses."

Agreed, for a Cessna.

"There were no highly complex procedures involved and the planes are highly automated."

Not true. There were several skilled manoeuvres necessary, least of all avoiding other aircraft while flying with ACARS off.


" there was not much real flying involved."

You must be joking!
Atta and Shehhi finished up at Huffman and earned their instrument certificates from the FAA in November. In mid-December 2000, they passed their commercial pilot tests and received their licenses.They then began training to fly large jets on a flight simulator. At about the same time, Jarrah began simulator training, also in Florida but at a different center. By the end of 2000, less than six months after their arrival, the three pilots on the East Coast were simulating flights on large jets.
Page 227, 9/11 Commission Report

Flight School Dropouts - 911myths


December 15, 2000-January 8, 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Jarrah Takes Flight Simulator Lessons in MiamiEdit event
Ziad Jarrah using a flight simulator in January 2001.
Ziad Jarrah using a flight simulator in January 2001. [Source: Los Angeles Times]
From December 15-18, 2000, 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah attends Aeroservice Aviation in Miami, Florida where he takes lessons in Boeing 727 and 737 simulators. Around this same time, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi take lessons in a 727 simulator, but at a different Florida center (see December 29-31, 2000). After returning to the US from a visit home to Beirut, Jarrah again attends Aeroservice Aviation on January 8, 2001. His girlfriend Aysel Senguen is with him for a ten-day stay at the time, accompanies him to the flight training session, and photographs him in the simulator.
Complete 911 Timeline: Flight Training Undergone by Alleged 9/11 Hijackers
These guys were trained to some degree on large jet simulators, not fucking microsoft PC flight simulator games FFS.