• sp3tr4l
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    1 month ago

    I can fly a plane.

    Landing a plane. That is more difficult.

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      1 month ago

      Flying and landing planes, and even helicopters is actually really easy. Turning them on is the complicated part. Every craft has a different startup sequence that’s like 50 steps and you’ll break something if you don’t do every step in the correct order.

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        1 month ago

        This is the most correct answer.

        The silliest answer is that the most difficult part of flying a plane is attempting to taxi while avoiding Blimps buzzing the tower at Mach 2.

        =P

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      1 month ago

      Might be the odd one out but I thought landing was the easiest step besides takeoff. It’s been 25 years since I’ve flown tho

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        1 month ago

        Don’t mind me I am being a goober, all my ‘flight time’ iis from DCS and other flight sims.

        You ever see the video of a guy who spawns in a P 51, on an incline, aircraft rolls off a cliff backward, then he does the entire start up sequence while freefalling, pulls the aircraft around such that the nose is now pointing the direction the craft is falling, guns the throttle and pulls up with feet to spare?

        Found that video once on YouTube and have never managed to find it again.