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There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.

Here:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...

And outcome:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...




There's nothing magic about flying. At the end of the day it's relatively simple.

The difficult part is being absolutely certain you're trained well enough to not crash the thing.


... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, etc.




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