if u were on a plane and something happened to the pilot and copilot, and the aircrew asked if any1 had any experience and no1 did but u had played flight simulator and were really gd would u try and land the plane

i guess ya mite aswell if it were gonna crash anyway. if it were lined up to the runway, im not rite gd at turning but i can land

I'm gonna say this again.

playing FS will not make you a pilot.
You would likely fail if you ever tried to land a full scale commercial airliner.

I have passed the 737 Computer based training, but I wouldnt be confident in landing that beast without using dual autopilots and aim for autolanding.
I also hold a PPL.

I agree with Craig, it's a simmers dream scenario, but remember you're not sitting infront of a comp anymore, but rather have the life of hundreds of people in your hands.

Yes I would...Yes I would...Yes I would LOL

Only for the following reasons:

(1) I would get to drink for free ...no questions asked
     You see I would order two beers right away to the cockpit...I can do that...as a retired Air Transport Rated Pilot I am GOD...right
I would drink the first beer to calm my nerves as I have not flown a real heavy in years....and it worked for the Battle of Britain pilots before going up...so history proves it would be okay to have it.
The second beer I would only drink half...the other half would be placed on the consol to act as my artificial horizon and to watch to see if the aircraft was in trim.

Usually if something goes wrong...like the aircrew being incapacitated then usually something else will go wrong, I found things usually happened in three's.

Now we have accomplished two things...I am calm and if we lose our instruments I have an artificial horizon I can rely on.

The second thing I would do is ask the back end crew to find me a really good cigar...since I do not get to smoke at home....I have never smoked cigarets but do enjoy a very good cigar once in awhile.
Since the old girl would not be in the cockpit I can get away with smoking it...don't forget now...right now I am GOD

So now we have accomplished three things:
(1) A calm qualified pilot at the helm
(2) A back up instrument system
(3) A happy pilot at the controls ready and willing to put
     your butt back on good old Terra Firma

What more could any screaming hysterical passenger ask for?????

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

After several horrid landings in a 172 yesterday, I don't know. I can land with the best of them in the sim, but in a real plane it's something different alltogether.

damn straight jakemaster

Oh... and it would have a funny effect on the passengers faces. Imagine a flight attendant asking over the intercomm: "Is there anyone aboard who knows how to play flight simulator?" 

Id give it a shot    Im sure if its a modern day airliner, at least itd have autoland

A very unlikely scenario ( perhaps not so unlikely in these days of terrorism?) , but if there was no-one else you'd have to try. Better than sitting there waiting to die !

On one 9/11 flight passengers fought the terrorists,probably after they had murdered the crew. If they'd won, one of them may have tried to land the plane.

Also there are reports from the F16's of people trying to take control of the recent Cypriot airliner that crashed.

I always thought that one of the biggest problems would be to make radio contact with the ground/other aircraft for talkdown etc. . I never bother with figuring out how to use the radios in FS, maybe I should ?
One official commentator made the point about passengers not being able to use the radios in the Greek crash.

I think that most experienced simmers would have to take a stab at landing a light type. ( It has happened not too infrequently that a single pilot has had a heart attack, for example,  in a light aircraft leaving his passenger/passengers to their fate.

I would probably try.....but due to my age they probably wouldn't let me.......