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Old 30th Sep 2012, 14:08
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Nice to know this topic keeps coming up ... and the same optimistic ppls reply. But hey! it might just be possible to land an Airbus if both pilots have died, the ppl has lots of MSFS experience, the aircraft is operating in normal mode, the emergency happened conveniently near the destination airport, you are in touch with ATC, and the wx is good.
But what if it's at night in the ITCZ, the weather is appalling, you are more than 2 hours flying time from land, your nav systems are degraded, the only ATC available is HF sideband radio, and you are 'hand flying' due to degraded sensor inputs. Dream on
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