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Old 22nd May 2003, 22:08
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Tero,

I think that, as someone has already said, the key word here is "chance".

I have no idea of the statistics but I imagine that the chance of an experienced ATPL breaking the aircraft on landing is something like 1 in 10,000. (Forgive me if I under estimate the competence of airline pilots. Whatever the odds are I am happy to accept them every time I fly without worry)

The chance of the F/O breaking it might be 1 in 8,000.

The odds must shorten dramatically once you get to pilots with no experience on big fast jets.

I safely landed a 777 3 axis sim 5 times out of 5 but I would put the odds of me breaking the real thing as something like 1 in 3. With your extensive sim experience you might extend those odds to 1 in 10, not odds I would want to take unless I had to.
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