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Old 18th Dec 2017, 03:07
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It really goes to show you that these modern planes are fairly easy to fly as long as you carry enough fuel and use some common sense.When I was in XXXX for around 12 years flying big jets, I was astounded by the huge number of fake Captains there.You name it, they had it.Fake medicals fake licences fake hours, the list is very long.The worst was one Canadian who was a 747 Captain, but it turned out that although he was a very intelligent individual he was previously a simulator technician with no flying hours at all, however late at night he would spend hundreds and hundreds of hours in the SIM teaching himself how to fly it.He would often watch regular crews during the day then practice what he had seen later at night.Armed with a fake ATPL he had no trouble joining XXXX as a line Capt then later a TRI.......
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