To be fair, ‘how to fly an airplane’ is different from ‘how airplanes fly’.
True, but at Virgin Airlines, the engineers and mechanics wear the same uniforms as the pilots. It’s wasteful and highly confusing, but Branson insists.
That sounds dumb. You would think you need to be able to identify the relevant and necessary people quickly during and emergency.
Well Branson IS famously a flashy idiot so 🤷
He be tryna figure out the autopilot.
I have tens of thousands of PC sim hours over the last 30 years. I’m ready for a pilot to get a heart attack on a flight any time now. Let me in there.
I just had my chance about a month ago in a trainer plane. It was incredible. Also I’ve had multiple nightmares about it. But I want to do it again. But it was terrifying.
Edit: Just to be clear, the pilot didn’t die. I mean I finally had a chance to take the controls and see what it’s like.
Pretty much the only way you get a job these days.
“So, ummm…how do nuclear reactors work exactly?”
Tech industry in a nutshell.
I’m gonna build a submarine vibes right here
I vote to make “build a submarine” the new colloquial phrase for idiotically attempting something someone is clearly not qualified for against all warnings.
“hey you wanna see the titanic? i made it myself!”
To be honest, a lot of it is auto pilot anyways
Soon they’re replacing it with PilotGPT.