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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] 128 points 3 months ago (11 children)

If the student had a PPL, it's likely she was training with him (a commercial pilot) for her IL instrument license, the next step up from PPL. Means she was qualified to land in clear weather.

He wasn't putting her in physical peril. But it's still a terrible mental burden to put on someone else.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    You never know how someone will react to something traumatizing like that. She could have had a panic attack and passed out.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Sure, but she's a trained pilot. You're literally drilled on a large number of emergency situations and procedures, with step by step checklists. The lead pilot dying isn't even the scary kind of emergency, in that situation the plane is still working fine. A sudden loss of airspeed, engine out, or a control surface unresponsive, those are all much scarier, and the pilot is expected to stay calm in all of those situations.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You’d hope. Still, I wouldn’t categorize any of those situations as not putting the pilot in physical peril.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Oh yeah, 100% those are straight up dangerous situations.

    You're just not allowed to freak out during those dangerous situations. It's like how "there's no crying in baseball", well "there's no freaking out in aviation".

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  • [+] -39 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 71 points 3 months ago*

    "According to reports, 22-year-old student pilot named Rosario already had a private pilot license but was still building up her flying hours, meaning she was required to fly with an instructor or safety pilot."

    Probably instrument rating

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    Before you get any kind of full license or certificate you usually need to do a certain number of solo hours as a student where you literally fly alone as the pilot in command, before you have your license.

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