Like, I’m on a plane. I don’t want to watch Toy Story when I can do that at home, I want to see what the pilots see. And that way every seat has technically a window to look out of.

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    Some of them show landing too. I had one that show us descending through a fog bank that was crazy. I don’t know how those pilots do it, balls of steel I guess.

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      ILS :-)

      But you have to trust the instruments and not become disoriented, takes lots of training and practice.

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        Or Autoland or a HUD landing which both can go down to 0/0, conditions permitting. There’s a lot of tools these days that pilots (especially Air Transport Pilots) can use to fly. And yes, all of it requires fairly extensive training.

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          And yes, all of it requires fairly extensive training.

          Pffft I’ve played Flappy Bird. How hard can it be?

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          After watching Mentour Pilot I have an appreciation of just how much training they undergo. It’s basically the closest thing we have to a real Starship Enterprise type setting where the captain seems to have an answer to everything that comes up, because that’s precisely what they aim for.