Could you land a real plane after playing Microsoft Flight Sim? 

Microsoft Flight Sim would honestly be the greatest NL banter of all time

Then the final part of the exam requires you to rotate a 3D object in your head

Air Traffic Control have talked people through the process of flying and landing a plane, it can't be that impossible, right? Looking into it, apparently Rowan Atkinson did it, so that's pretty neat.

I was on a sightseeing trip with my mom and her old friend who's a pilot. At the end of it she wanted to flex how easy it was to land was so she let go of the controls and told my mom to land it, then walked her through it. It was pretty psycho but it was relatively easy.

Private pilot here: We actually do use Microsoft flight simulator to learn the controls of the plane and learn how to navigate and plenty of other things. I had no previous practice flying so it can be really scary when you get into the plane for the first time. (Most schools use Cessnas because they resist rookies fuck-ups more than any other planes, like hard landings and such) I remember one time practicing so much a technique to locate yourself without a radar, only using coordinates. And when it was time for the actual real-plane test, I nailed so fucking hard that my captain was impressed. All I did was simulate it in MFS over and over and over again.

I completely agree with his take, it's just the way people quantify "flight hours" makes it sound insanely long. No one says "a java developer needs one thousand hours in an IDE before they even let them TOUCH a codebase". You need what like 1500 hours to fly commercial? Back of the napkin math: 20hrs flying per week, 50 weeks in a year but let's say you only go to school half of that, that's 500hrs of flight a year. So it's just the hours a regular degree would take?

the hardest part about flying a plane is honestly learning all of the rules, which are pretty much all thrown out the window in a situation where an untrained person would have to land a plane

these planes fly themselves and air traffic controlm woudl guide you, it cant actually be that hard. The people that say he couldnt do it are the samer that clap after the plane lands

Took a helicopter tour once and the sensation, at the risk of sounding 4head, was very much like being in a car that could move vertically.

As much as this was treated as a crazy take by twitch chat, it really does seem reasonable. Give him a mcdonalds sprite and I bet he could even do it with his eyes closed

99.9% confidence in the pilots plus Nl’s 51.0% its like a 150.0% chance of you not dying and you ask yourself. “Why doesn’t everybody fly?”

It's wild how quickly and how high his confidence rises as his imagination takes over. Started out basically as "no" then ran through how he could actually fly the whole flight from takeoff to landing, then MADE UP A PILOT to agree with him!

Both my heads would be pegged if this egg played flight simulator

good joeling here

Honestly, I think NL is under selling his ability to land a plane, at least if it were a commercial airliner. Them shits kinda land themselves (not literally but kinda). As long as he had Air Traffic on the horn, they'd be able to walk him through it live

tbh I think he's underestimating his odds, if you can figure out how to use mfsf you can fly a plane lol and in the cessna example, not only is the pilot supposed to tell you how to land in an emergency before you even take off but the atc will tell you how to get to the ground if you need help

His take about dogs on grocery stores would definitely get dunked

My dad is a pilot he always complains about getting a shit landing or how much better his landings are than a co pilot so I’m pretty sure its more of a smoothness thing than a up in flames or not situation

yo who has 4000 hours in something and only half the achievements 💀

Now he's GOTTA play flight simulator

Takeoff and landing is relatively the most dangerous tho

It seriously cannot be that hard

don't the largest airline planes basically land themselves?

I love his anti-gravity mindset, where it’s easier to get the plane up in the air than it is to bring it back down

based anti helicopter take