Timeline for How was Cooper able to fly at the end of Interstellar?
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:52 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | @VikramadityaMondal, on a light aircraft, which is analogous to Cooper's craft, I would say, yes, absolutely, you could sit them down, and they could start the engine, taxi, take off, perform basic navigation, and land the aircraft. They would just miss out on all the navigation that could be handled for them automatically, and they might not recognize some of the warning alarms if they ran into trouble. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:26 | comment | added | phantom42 | Here we go: On modern commercial airliners, how much of the flight could be fully taken care of by the auto pilot?. autopilot can do/assist in everything except taxiing and powering up. It's completely reasonable to think that this gap may be closed in the future, especially with the assistance of robots like TARS as a directly interfaced co-pilot. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:23 | comment | added | phantom42 | Actually, I may have been mistaken. I don't think they can take off yet, but they can do everything else. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | phantom42 | There's also the question of how much Coop has to do, and how much he can delegate to TARS. But even today, autopilot systems can take off and land entirely by themselves. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:03 | comment | added | PiousVenom | Not to mention, wasn't he a pilot to begin with? I'm not saying all aircraft are alike, but some of it has to be similar enough no matter what machine you're flying. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | Geobits | @VikramadityaMondal Was the craft in the movie modern in that sense? The USAF is still flying aircraft from the 1960s/70s today, so if they were just old craft, there's really nothing to explain anyway. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | VacuuM | Are you trying to say that a pilot from 1955 will also be able to fly a modern day craft anyhow? thrust, drag, lift and weight:, throttle, ailerons, elevators, flaps and rudder does not change because they are basic things in aviation. But the switches, buttons, handles, which I called controls changes day by day. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:14 | history | answered | Chris B. Behrens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |