LogFAQs > #908602793

Foppe posted...

And yet he managed to take a big 757, turn it around, drive it at 500+ mph, make a deep dive with a sharp turn, fly it just above ground level, low enough to clip lamp posts, and then hit the building right on.

Umm, yea.

Any pilot will tell you it is extremely easy to do that with a 757. The only thing mildly difficult in what you talked about is keeping the plane from throwing the passengers around too much to keep the flight tolerable (which he OBVIOUSLY would not care about). Hell, it is easier to do that in a 757 then in a Cessna 172 (completely ignoring that a 172 can't even come close to a 500 mph ground speed) because the Cessna is a prop plane and is therefore more prone to stalling.

The difficulty in a 757 has more to do with getting used to proper procedures and emergency situations, the actual flying once it is in the air is only a small fraction of the hundreds of hours of training required to become a commercial pilot capable of using it.
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