Wow, this is awesome. I thought it was going to be someones joke, but what a great idea (even if in a real-world scenario, passengers being admitted to cockpits would never happen).

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I was following him until he started talking about flaps. From that on is became really complicated.

Aren't flight attendants more qualified at this than random passengers? They gotta go through some sort of basic emergency training...

I've always wondered if the passengers on United 93 had managed to retake the cockpit if they could have then flown the airplane and then landed it. From this video, it sounds like that could have.

"Grab a beer from the galley, and slide down the ramp. You just became a hero today."

Yes, sir.

Anyone else notice at the end he says grab a beer from the galley and enjoy the emergency slide.

As a lifelong flight sim addict (with a decent bit of real world experience), there is a twisted part of my brain that wills exactly this scenario to happen whenever I'm on an airliner.

I have no doubt that I would swiftly regret this if it ever did happen and I was mad enough to volunteer.

@mxxcon Unless a qualified pilot happened to be on the plane it would likely be the senior attendant that takes responsibility yes.

I imagine there is some procedure in place, but the scenario is so massively unlikely and modern avionics so good that there would be little point in doing much if any formal training (I can't see most airlines warranting the expense).

I dare say they might be shown how to work the radio though.

I gotta imagine so. Even a botched attempted landing has got to be better than a crash right?

It's probably totally arrogant and selfish of me, but if I was in this situation *I* would want to be the one flying the plane - and not for the potential glory, I'd just have a really hard time trusting some other schmo to do it

Everything seemed doable to me except for the very last bit with the touchdown. Then he races through a whole mess of lever pulls that are unclear in this video yet are absolutely the most important part of not dying. Whoever did this was just showing off and not serious about preventing a crash.

I would want someone to sit as co-pilot and help me with that spaghetti of instructions right at the end there.

Even knowing how to use the radio is one degree better than absolutely no knowledge of a plane..

And they gotta implement some sort of remove control/assistance system.
If not straight up remove piloting then remotely light up things that I would need to push/pull/twist...

I realize all planes are different and why, but you'd think the FAA and other organizations would demand some sort of standardization if for no other reason than it would be easier and safer to switch out ACTUAL pilots on a day-to-day basis, let alone in an emergency.

I was also noticing how they design the different knobs and levers to be COMPLETELY different than each other. I'm sure it's for a tactile "oh hey, that's not the heading dial" feel when a pilot is grabbing onto the altitude dial.

I was waiting for Leslie Nielsen's voice at the end - "I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you"

Just watching this video made me nervous, but I think I could do it in real life, assuming a pilot was giving instructions over the radio.
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I had a conversation with a commercial pilot before (at dinner, not in a flight) and he had flown both Boeing and Airbus and said they feel much different. Boeing spends a lot of time with the force-feedback so the planes behave much the same as their older analog counterparts, and lays things out based on pilot feedback ; whereas Airbus feels more like a video game, and they only care about fuel efficiency of the plane.

Either way, all pilots require hundreds of hours of training on a particular model (of large commercial airplane) before they get to be captain.

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I would make a pretty crater.