Novice fly's a 737 after 1 month of training

typera12

Hi all

Dont know if this was discussed before found this clip on youtube the lucky sod got to fly a 737-800 ,Tom Waes, host of Tomtesterom program of the Belgian VRT television network is a guy who takes on different challenges and tries to complete them successfully while only having limited amount of time to prepare himself.

On this episode he takes the challenge to fly a Boeing 737-800 with only one month of previous training.

Enjoy

Baords wont let me post a url link so go to youtube and search for "How to fly a real Boeing 737-800 after 1 month Challenge".

lintdrummer

Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrpR1YI1qc

typera12

Thanks lintdrummer for posting link

andy_g

Boards will let you post the link after you post your 50th post this was brought in to stop spammers.

keith16

lintdrummer wrote: »

Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrpR1YI1qc

And here it is, embedded right on boards.ie so you don't have to navigate to some other website like an unhinged lunatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrpR1YI1qc

I watched it before and would recommend it.

billie1b

Watched it before, its a good one.

Teebor15

Interesting. How is that legal? especially with passengers. If there was an incident the subsequent headlines could seriously damage an airline! Big risk by the airline involved?

Cessna_Pilot

Teebor15 wrote: »

Interesting. How is that legal? especially with passengers. If there was an incident the subsequent headlines could seriously damage an airline! Big risk by the airline involved?

I'd be quite sure all the legalities were taken care of before they started.

Sam Kade

Is this a reality show?

typera12

This TV series consists of extreme challenges, to be accomplished by the host. Among others, swimming across the British channel, climbing the 'El Capitan' in Yosemite, ski-jumping off the big Garmisch-Partenkirchen ski-jump. Aviation related, he had to build and fly his own foot-launched glider at the Wasserkuppe and in the episode seen here, performing a couple of t&g's in a B737 without the FI intervening. Probably the least risky of them all...

However it caused quite a stir up to the Belgian parliament. Belgian CAA started an investigation, but couldn't find anything illegal: he had passed his medical, took the PPL theory exams and had a valid SPL. Went solo on the Cirrus and performed many B737 sim training sessions. The actual t&g’s at EBOS with chief pilot/FI in LHS and extra FI in the jump seat, produced spectacular TV but was probably the safest ‘stunt’ he did.

Teebor15

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

I'd be quite sure all the legalities were taken care of before they started.

I never said it wasn't legal. I was asking HOW it was legal. But I understand now once he had his SPL then it's still simply a flight lesson whether it's in a single engine circus or a B737. Still surprising they didn't run it by the regulator beforehand. And a risk to airline reputation if anything had gone astray. The publicity they got from the show must have outweighed the risk involved.

Teebor15

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

I'd be quite sure all the legalities were taken care of before they started.

I never said it wasn't legal. I was asking HOW it was legal. But I understand now once he had his SPL then it's still simply a flight lesson whether it's in a single engine circus or a B737. Still surprising they didn't run it by the regulator beforehand. And a risk to airline reputation if anything had gone astray. The publicity they got from the show must have outweighed the risk involved.

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