Originally Posted by JoeyBalls:8804780
@ Mixture
well, the safest thing would be to never take off...............................how do you think that will play out?
Also, people keep mentioning the CA was an F-16 pilot, so what? Flying an F-16 is absolutely nothing like flying an Airbus. The only commonality is they both are Yoke-less..............
Well the suggestion maybe that the F16 pilot has spent a significant proportion of his time maneuvering his aircraft to extremis of flight envelope in all conditions. A significant proportion of 20k hour commercial pilot time has been spent accumulating an hours actual flying time in every 9hr sector (e.g 30mins landing 30 mins take-off inc departure from ramp), with maybe 50% of the 'hours on type' spent in a 3 axis motion platform. So maybe just a little more than the yoke!