Maybe it would help this thread if someone defined 'airmanship', is it possible to build some of this through desktop flying alone? My answer is......and this will dissapoint the cynics.......yes, albeit a tiny portion.
My first lesson in a warrior earned me the comment from my instructor "are you sur you havent flown before", because my years in the armchair had given me a second nature reaction to the instruments and carrying out scans etc.
I could land an airbus...although it would be extremely messy. Handling a 757 would be a different ball game due to the rawness of the beast!
P.s. my study in all things aviation I believe is what would really help me get a machine down, oh and I have done some 200 hours in the jumpseats of a320/1's and 757's!
