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hi, is there a "famous senerio" add-on, where the pilot is incapacitated and you, in all ignorance. have to take the controls and be guided (push that button pull that knob) by a control tower to an airport,whether it be auto or manual, and then to land.........it could be with different types of aircraft. if this sounds silly, i apologise, but i was curious..........cheers, vic

Well if there is I have never heard of it.
Sounds like something that only happens in the movies...

I agree with bigbad. Sounds like something you would see in the movies.
That is not a bad idea. But I think it goes a little past what M$ had in mind for FS. But you never know maybe in the future.

It happens everytime I go flying....  We are going along just fine.  I am sitting in the virutaly passenger seat, sipping my tea, reading the paper.  Then all of the sudden I see the pilot grabbing his chest and screaming in pain.  I have to take over the plane or we will all plumit to our firery doom!  

I should learn to take the virtual bus next time....

had to laugh.......ok, i surrender. a fast way to learn how to fly though. beats manuals............cheers, vic.

I should learn to take the virtual bus next time....

I don't know have you tried any of the ground vehicles. They are harder to control than the airplanes especially at any respectable speed. Of course I did get the Jag up to 110 MPH once.  ;D

It's funny this has been mentioned a few times now.  I'm an English teacher and in one of my lessons there's an article about a man who goes flying with his father-in-law in a Cessna or something.  Father was flying and the son had never been in a plane at all.  While in flight, the father-in-law collapsed.  

I'll have to find the article and put it in this thread.  Don't know if it's a real story or not.. but it has pics and everything (prolly actors).

please do................

Umm... did they make it?  ???

OK.. warning... this is LONG!!

WHEN THE PILOT HAS A HEART ATTACK AND YOUR'E ON YOUR OWN

PASSENGER LANDS PLANE AFTER PILOT DIES

It's the air passenger's nightmare.. the pilot collapses and you are forced to seize the controls to save your own life.  For Alan Anderson, 24, it became reality when his girlfirend's father Les Rhoades suffered a fatal heart attack at 2,200 ft over the Welsh coast on Sunday. The pilot of a second light aircraft, Robert Legge, responded to his radio call for help and, trailing behind, calmly gave instructions on how to land.

ALAN ANDERSON had never flown before.  So he was looking forward to an exciting time when his future father-in-law, Les Rhoades, aged 63, invited him up for a ride in his light plane.  What he hadn't expected was that Mr. Rhoades would suffer a heart attack while they were in the air.  Fortunately for Mr. Anderson, Mr. Rhoades had shown him how to operate the radio, so he was able to radio for help.

MAYDAY MAYDAY

 Robert Legge, an instructor with the Cardiff Flying SChool who was in a plane a few miles away, was asked to help by air traffic controllers after they received an emergency call from Mr. Anderson, saying: "Mayday Mayday, my father-in-law has had a heart attack and I don't know how to fly."
 Mr. Legg pulled alongside Mr. Anderson's plane and told him by radio how to fly the aircraft.  He took him through a practice landing and then helped him bring the plane down safely at Cardiff Airport just after 7 p.m.

INCREDIBLE FEAT

 Mr. Legge said last night: "It was an incredible feat for anyone, let alone someone for the first time ever in a light aircraft.  He was fantastically calm.  When I kept telling him what controls to use, the repeated reply was 'OK, but I've never done this before', but he never sounded frightened."
 He added:  "We had one chance to get it right and, thank God, we succeeded.  The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt as though I was no longer in control, but he made a perfect landing.  He did marvellously well."

DEEP SHOCK

 After his ordeal, Mr. Anderson was put under sedation for deep shock, and is now resting at his fiancee's home near Cardiff.  He said yesterday: "After what I have been through, nothing will get me on a plane again.  I've never been so terrified in my whole life, but I knew I had to keep calm."  And he tahnks Mr. Legge, saying: "I didn't have a clue what to do, but Robter put me at ease and I just gritted my teeth and concentrated on the job in hand."

BTW, I typed all that, so if there's any mistakes, it's a type-o.

[quote]It's funny this has been mentioned a few times now.

[quote]It's funny this has been mentioned a few times now.