how did they do this ? :-)
A few years ago when doing the 320 TR, I had the FMGS sim on my laptop .. basically to prepare for the next sim session, my place of study was where I had done all my prep since the first ones in 1987 .. my quiet table in a corner of a local restaurant.
I had done the set up and the thing was flying a route from EGXX to EGXX
(with constraints).
Someone recognises me sat in the corner and comes over to say hello.
We amble off for a glass and a chat.
Arriving back at the laptop there is the Airbus parked obediently in the XXXXX hold awaiting further.
Reconfigure for a landing, press approach, and return to the conversation.
As this was free informal study I didn't rush back.. for all I cared the laptop could have shut down, but when I came back to pack it away, there it was sat on the centreline of RW XXL at EGXX waiting for someone to taxi it to the stand.
As somebody said during my first typerating .. " Look this isn't difficult .. they are designed for Americans to fly" !!
I trust the irony is taken in the right quarters.
TR