Pilot License Skepticism
Pilots and flight trainees debate the necessity of traditional pilot licenses, extensive training, and hands-on experience, expressing skepticism toward concepts that simplify flying to resemble driving a car in three dimensions without proper certification.
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color me skeptical.Piloting a plane is more than just knowing the manual. It's experience also, and knowing the 'feel' of the aircraft.
I have a pilot's license. Many people do they are fairly common.
I'm a pilot and that seems insane.
As someone who is currently getting his pilot's license, I wouldn't be comfortable sitting in a craft that abstracts flying to making "it seem like more of a car that is able to move in three dimensions." Regular pilots are well-versed in everything from weather, to emergency conditions, to physics of flight and practicing everything that can possibly go wrong. Not to mention interacting with other aircrafts. I really hope that they took this into account. It's very improbable that they didn't.<
Flight instructor here. This person knows what they're talking about.
Get a pilot's licence. You'd be surprised how many pilots got into it specifically because of this.
You fly jets long enough, something like this happens.
You fly jets long enough, something like this happens.
Private pilot here. Yes, that is exactly right.
I'm a pilot. I understand it quite well.