On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, David Howe wrote:
WTC....... I would imagine it would all be on the yoke too, no throttles or concerns about airspeed given you are not really going to care that much what speed or acceleration you have on impact...
which in turn means that they needed to know *in advance* which kinds of planes they would be hijacking. While a lot of the pilot training could be done using Flight Simulator, you still need to know what to train for.
Your assumptions share a common fault: most commercial rated aircraft hava standardized set of instruments. You can fly one, you can fly any of em. Poorly maybe, but we're not discussing that here.
... or train for the two/three more common types, then pick a flight *on the day* that actually is flying that type of plane. book seats at the last minute (not a problem for domestic flights) or pre-book three or four different seats per attacker, and each picks a flight with the right sort of plane from the "pool" of available flights.
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