Think you can land a plane in an emergency? Pilots explain why you can’t
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Part of that rating is have the knowing of lots of specific information about a particular aircraft available for instant recall: things like stall speed, glide speed, landing speed, flap settings, lowest take-off speed, all those speeds but with one or more engines inoperative, position of switches and controls, position of instruments, normal engine RPM, the 'feel' of the plane, the normal sound of the engines, normal flight attitudes, etc, etc, etc.
I have and did fine.