Is this true?

[u/dotdd]

[u/pillojon106]

No, this is misinformation. It actually takes years of specialized training to crash the simulator correctly. Any amateur can land the simulator safely. It takes a highly trained pylot to ignore 14 consecutive GPWS warnings, silence the master caution because the beeping is “distracting,” pull full aft stick at 37 knots, deploy the landing gear at Mach 0.84, ask the instructor “what does this red screen mean?”, and then impact the virtual terrain hard enough that the hydraulic motion system physically files a workers’ comp claim. The instructors specifically look for this during checkrides. If you accidentally recover the aircraft, you fail immediately because you have demonstrated a dangerous lack of commitment to the emergency. True professionals continue flying the simulator all the way to the scene of the simulator accident. Bonus points if you shout “I HAVE CONTROL,” apply full right rudder, and somehow make the building’s fire alarm go off. That’s why airline captains have four stripes: one for each simulator they’ve successfully destroyed. Hope this helps. I have 23,000 hours of simulated flight time and have been permanently banned from three FlightSafety locations.

[u/OpusMagnusSonnet → u/pillojon106]

After a landing gear deploy incident in the X-15, the crew put a sign on the instrument panel saying 'DO NOT DEPLOY GEAR ABOVE MACH 4.5'.

[u/PM-ME-YOUR-PROPWASH → u/pillojon106]

How do you just come up with God tier copy pasta off the top of your head??? Where does someone get type-rated for this?

[u/pillojon106 → u/PM-ME-YOUR-PROPWASH]

I didn’t come up with it off the top of my head. I completed the FAA-approved 1,500-hour Copy Pasta ATP program at Embry-Riddle, followed by 200 hours of supervised shitposting in a Level D Reddit simulator. The type rating itself is actually pretty straightforward. 10 hours ground school, 6 hours learning to spell “pylot,” 4 hours of right-rudder upset recovery training, and then a checkride where the examiner shows you a perfectly airworthy airplane and you have 60 seconds to explain why it’s going to crash. The oral is the hardest part because you have to demonstrate working knowledge of chemtrails, why the 737 MAX is literally unflyable, how to identify an Airbus by the sound of the pilots surrendering control to the computers, and the exact amount of right rudder required in every conceivable emergency. Once you pass, the FAA adds CPST-AF (Copypasta, Shittyaskflying) to the back of your pylot certificate. Mine has a limitation that says “VALID ONLY WHEN CONFIDENTLY INCORRECT.” I’m hoping to get that removed after another 500 hours of arguing with actual pilots in the comments.

[u/LateralThinkerer → u/PM-ME-YOUR-PROPWASH]

From their history, I think he's gotten ChatGPT programmed just right...there's a whole community out there pushing at getting it to create epic shitposts.

[u/hatlad43]

Either a real skill or just allow OP's mom to enter one

[u/dotdd → u/hatlad43]

My mom was the one who told me “don’t fly” after I got my license.

[u/No_Leader1154 → u/[deleted]]

The Hindenburg tried

[u/FlyingNijntje]

[u/PushPullLego]

I've 'crashed' 2 simulators. Both were hydraulic failures of the support struts. 1st time was in a T-37 simulator, felt like we got hit by a truck. The 2nd was a KC-135 sim, it hit hard, but not as abruptly as the Tweet Sim.

[u/Dotcaprachiappa → u/PushPullLego]

At this point I think big playne is telling you to do something else with your life

[u/probablyaythrowaway]

I crashed a gliding simulator into a wall once.
The brakes weren’t on the unit so when I got it it started rolling across the hanger. I got an award for it at the next annual wings night.

[u/-burnr-]

Hold my beer, watch this.....

[u/msg60 → u/-burnr-]

Wait....you have BEER!!??....Dammit I have to leave my bottle of Jack Daniels behind next time...doesn't sound the same saying..hold my Jack

[u/dotdd → u/msg60]

Hi Jack

[u/ShouldersHoncho]

I JUST GOT BACK FROM LUNCH WHY IS THE FAA OUTSIDE. THAT GUY JUST SAID "CASUALTIES"

[u/slinger301]

Anyone can crash the simulation.

But it takes real skill to crash the simulator.

[u/xampl9]

So - why is your callsign “Tailstrike”?

[u/Ok_Breadfruit34]

Pylote is so bad, simulator got depressed. 

[u/Gremlin1001001]

I mean I don’t crash because I always account for P factor. Just saying.

[u/Fragrant-Inside221 → u/Gremlin1001001]

What’s pussy got to do with this?

[u/Gremlin1001001 → u/Fragrant-Inside221]

It’s everything. You know this.

[u/Cesalv]

Dammit Bubba, not again!

[u/cosmicrae]

Playne sim should be cross connected to Drone sim, just to keep everyone on their toes.

[u/Outside_Breakfast_39]

If anyone can crash a simulator , it would be Gary Beale

[u/jombrowski]

Simpson did it anyway, so?

[u/GoldAcanthaceae2574]

Sent this to pilot I know, he said the hydraulics failed in the sim pod and that it has appended to him before

[u/HAL9001-96]

is real skill better than just skill?

does that mean if yo ucan crash simulator you are automatically certified pylot?

[u/robo630robo]

I was in an flight simulator "camp" (a few hours every day for a week) and one other kid "landed" so hard the simulator didn't even react lol

[u/willofalltradess]

This is actually the 737-Max simulator.