• quarkquasar@lemmy.world
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    27 minutes ago

    I’m glad I don’t know more about aviation and human nature so I don’t have to worry about this as much as it probably warrants.

    People who are used to not facing real consequences, directing 200-ton metal tubes full of humans through the air above us?

    Probably fine.

  • owl@infosec.pub
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    “Seattle Approach, Cherokee 8121K, 20 southwest of Seattle VOR at 7,500, en route Arlington, request transit Class Bravo airspace.”
    -“LMAO, shut the fuck up *****. Why don’t you get gud at being a pilot instead of being carried under tower from support every time looser?”

  • Siegehammer85@lemmy.world
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    Please at let be the ones that are the hardcore MS flight sim nerds, they do have many who take is super serious at least.

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      1 hour ago

      “You were supposed to cover me, wtf and you call yourself prestige 8 on cod? I’ve seen bots smarter than you.”

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    24 minutes ago

    Being good at some computer games (not just flight simulators) is helpful in getting through the recruitment process. I’d say a mix of having good orientation and implementing and executing a strategy is required at the very least (and sticking to it, which I didn’t do lol), which you definitely get/practice in games.

    However the actual training process can cut those numbers dramatically, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they ignored obvious red flags with some of these ‘gamers’ just to pump those numbers up.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    44 minutes ago

    “hello ladies and gentlemen I am the spiffing brit and welcome to LAX Air Traffic control”

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    25 minutes ago

    I can take off planes on MS Flight Sim by the way, but I could never land without crashing it.

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    I found a glitch. When you crash a few planes on the other runways, all the traffic has to go over a single one. Still the same traffic and points but way easier to manage