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Patrick Smith (who flies commercially for a living, and writes the excellent Salon column 'Ask The Pilot') has issued an open challenge to any and all sim enthusiasts (with deep pockets).

He claims that any non-actual-pilot will be unable to land a commercial airliner in a full-motion simulator, given the controls mid-cruise. Whoever loses the bet gets to pay for the simulation time (ouch!).

If I had the money, I would take his challenge in a heart beat! I am open to accepting funding ;)

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Does that challenge allow for landing the plane on ILS autopilot? Because I've done that multiple times in X-Plane using the highly complicated x737 addon package, and I would imagine that the ability to correctly operate the autopilot is far more important in that sort of situation.