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As a private pilot (which, admittedly, is a very different environment) if I had kids on board, then if at all possible they got to sit up front and fly the plane as much as they wanted and could. I've had kids as young as five fly the plane (while sitting on a stack of telephone books so that they could see out the windshield). It was always amazing how good even kids that young could get in just a few minutes at the simple stuff such as slow turns to a heading or gradual ascents and descents to a new altitude. I've had ten-year-olds do well enough that I was actually able to have them do straight-ahead stalls, both power-on and power-off, successfully. The basics of flying an airplane are actually incredibly easy to learn and perform and, in many ways, the bigger the airplane, the easier they are. It's all the other stuff that goes along with managing the airplane that requires the education, training, and experience and, there, the bigger the airplane, the more involved it becomes.
Glad I'm not a passenger
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I bet their aim was to make things simpler ... by adding complications ...
"The Federal Aviation Administration notes no commercial airliner has ever been struck by space debris, with odds estimated at less than 1 in a trillion."
When the odds of something happening are a trillion to one, chances are 50/50 that it will.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/...-in-flight-it-was-probably-a-weather-balloon/
However the question of what happened to flight 1093, and its severely damaged front window, appears to be answered in the form of a weather balloon.
“I think this was a WindBorne balloon,” Kai Marshland, co-founder of the weather prediction company WindBorne Systems, told Ars in an email on Monday evening. “We learned about UA1093 and the potential that it was related to one of our balloons at 11 pm PT on Sunday and immediately looked into it. At 6 am PT, we sent our preliminary investigation to both NTSB and FAA, and are working with both of them to investigate further.”
The first story that I saw on this claimed that it was caused by a defective windshield heater -- which made absolutely zero sense given the obvious damage to the frame and, especially, to the skin above the windshield.
Almost immediately, it was determined that the object was a weather balloon. The operator of the balloon came forward and contacted the FAA when they lost contact with their balloon and it was quickly determined that the balloon was, indeed, at about the right altitude and location to have been involved. My understanding is that the balloon was operating within the parameters that it had been approved for, so the big question seemed to be whether something slipped through the cracks somewhere in the deconfliction procedures and how to solve it for the future. I haven't heard anything since (which is so commonly the case once a story is out of the limelight).
Note that the claim that it might be space debris came from some random passenger that was interviewed (and who probably went out of their way to volunteer to be interviewed in search of their fifteen minutes of fame). They had zero basis for the speculation and gave no indication that their background gave them any basis for offering any kind of informed speculation to begin with.
What happens if he gets hit in the face with a bird?
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