Passenger-landing plane's pilot dies

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

when i was instructing regularly back in the day, i used to offer a course to spouses, it was about 10 hours of flight time and concentrated mostly on aspects related to Climb, descent, turns, landing and GPS navigation if applicable. The passing criteria was basically that us, and the airplane had to survive the landing.

I think that is a great idea. Even if the "insta-pilot" never has to use any of those skills (and that's the idea), they will have an appreciation of what the pilot (their spouse) is dealing with.

In the military flying club I got my learnin at, there was a similar program for pilots and ATC. Pilots would be invited to observe ATC and ATC people would be invited to ride along. It gives people on both sides an appreciation on what the other does. It was eye-opening.

Having an appreciation of what other people you interact with is a good way of understanding their viewpoints.

And best of all, after walking that mile, you get to keep their shoes!