Fun hypothetical situation
By foofermen
@foofermen (500)
November 10, 2010 9:18am CST
You are on an airplane and are sitting in the first class. A flight stewardess approaches you, clearly distraught, under the false pretenses that you are a pilot (she misunderstood a conversation of yours, that she overheard) and asks you if you can fly a plane. You ask her what's wrong but she tries, in a futile effort, to assure you every thing is okay. Something has clearly happened, leaving the plane without a pilot.
What do you do?
Do you sit there and worry?
Do you search for a pilot?
Do you approach the pilot's cabin?
2 responses
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
10 Nov 10
I would not pretend that I'm a pilot because I would be putting a lot of people in danger then. However, I would still approach the cabin and try to check what I can do. I will probably check the communication system and see if I can fly the plane safely with the aid of the communication system. However, prior to doing that, i'd ask some passengers if any of them have experienced flying a plane. Who knows luck might be on our side, and they might help me out.
@aaitrahb (52)
• Australia
5 Jun 11
Sitting there and worrying is absolutely not an option. The only two options that are remotely possible is I try to fly the plane or I try to get someone else to fly the plane while I try to get the real pilot back. Given that the closest I've come to flying a plane is just standing in a cockpit when I was a child or countless flight simulators, I'd say looking for someone else would be the smarter option. There might be panic in the cabin once people find out there's no pilot but it's much easier that way than me getting on the controls and trying to do a loop-de-loop.
