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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8547875.stm ]Child's play. Apparently[/url]
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One assumes the father has told him what to say, is sat right next to him and is essentially monitoring every move. I couldn't care less.
One assumes the father has told him what to say, is sat right next to him and is essentially monitoring every move. I couldn't care less.
Didn't that [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593 ]Russian Pilot[/url] that allowed his son to play with the controls back in the 90's? One would have assumed the father had told him what to do, sat right next to him and essentially monitored his every move. He ended up killing 75 people.
Assumption is the mother of all ****up's. Is it really worth the risk considering the consequences of a mistake?
what a complete 'tard!
Jon1973 - I've no idea what Russian you're on about. But not quite a comparable situation though is it, they were all ground-based planes and none were in immediate risk of crashing, even if the instructions were slightly off there would not be immediate and irreversible consequences. One could conceive of a situation where the plane may start to move when not expected to, but within half a second the father could easily over-ride the command and the pilot would simply correct, unlike if you accidentally knock a plane into an unrecoverable dive. Over-hyped nonsense from hand wringers and what-if merchants.
As an experienced pilot if anyone is given control, under supervision, provided they can speak, it'll be okay.
Chill out!
Going back to [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cadets-playing-at-soldierspilotssailors-or-just-a-bit-bent-ccf ]the air cadet thread[/url], I've done air traffic control, albeit with military planes rather than something with 200 passengers on board.
Aged about 15, a group of us in the tower telling some student pilot flying a Tucano what to do. The student and his trainer pilot knew what was going on, the controller in the tower told us exactly what to say and the student managed not to crash his plane. 🙂
As mikertroid says, the pilots usually know the score inside out and can almost predict exactly what the controller will be saying a lot of the time, especially taxiing around the airport.
As a professional pilot it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Might query a take-off clearance, but if his dad is right next to him I don't see any problems at all.
As an air traffic controller myself I thought I should add my tuppence worth.
There is bugger all wrong with it in some ways. His dad would have had his headset plugged in to the same frequency in the mentor socket and if he'd used his PTT it would have cut out anything his son was saying. I'm sure any responsible controller would not have done it during a bust period and it's not that much different from training a new controller (apart from the fact they would have done several months in a training centre
However it is against the conditions of his dads licence to let someone without an RT licence transmit over the frequency even if they are being closely watched and told what to say.
I've occasionally had my kids in the tower with me but there is not a hope in hell I'd let them transmit anything.