How plausible would it be to learn to fly a plane whilst in the air?
With proper instruction from the ground, and assuming you can follow instructions exactly, you can land the airplane, thanks to the very heavy automation used in modern airliners, which allows a computer to fly the airplane to its destination and (if necessary) land it. You wouldn’t need any experience with or knowledge of flying. All you would need is the ability to do as you are told. ATC would not be providing the instruction, since controllers are not pilots. However, if they could find a pilot or flight instructor qualified on the 747, he or she could guide you. It would work because all you’d have to do is push buttons, turn knobs, and move levers in response to exact instructions over the radio. You would not have to touch the flight controls (yoke, rudder, throttles), and in fact doing so would be dangerous. Ironically, you’d have a better chance of landing a 747 than you would have for landing a small airplane like a Cessna single-engine aircraft. That’s because the Cessna has
