Anyone can play pilot too

[Andrew Williams]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8549954.stm

A Swedish pilot without a valid licence to fly has been arrested at Amsterdam as he was about to fly a jet with 101 passengers to Turkey, Dutch police say.

The 41-year-old man said he had been flying for European airlines for 13 years and had logged 10,000 hours.

Police said he once had a licence to fly small planes but it had expired and it did not allow him to fly large jets.

[Andreas Heusner]

I read it too. It's crazy. But today I read that a ten years old boy gave take off clearance on JFK Airport
But he was under control of his dad so it wasn't dangerous...

[Rafal Bardel]

But he was under control of his dad so it wasn't dangerous...

Was it?

Well, the other day an Aerflot pilot let his kids "pretend" they are flying, in a real flight cockpit - the autopilot played a trick on the pilots which they did not know about - it blocked the ailerons on the yoke twist - and the pilots were unable to bring the acft under control back again ... well, ended up in a crash.

Funny as it might be (or is), to me its seems totally silly and irresponsible. But I am not a real pilot. nor a real controller.

[Norbert Pflug]

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[Peter Schindler]

hate to mention it...

I bet you do ...
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