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How To Start Up a Boeing 737 Step By Step

Posted March 01, 2012 9:56 AM

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Planning to steal a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320? Pranas Drulis at the Baltic Aviation Academy got you covered: these videos show how to start up these planes from cold to ready to taxi, step by step.

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03/01/2012 10:05 PM

But they do not teach you how to land, eh?

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03/02/2012 7:24 AM

I was all ways told Landing was not an option.

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03/02/2012 7:35 AM

Every takeoff is guaranteed a landing!

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03/02/2012 7:39 AM

We've never left one up there yet.......

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03/02/2012 9:00 AM

I,m surprised they didn't need keys!

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03/02/2012 9:01 AM

This is just not right....it teaches the would-be terrorists how to start up a passenger liner. Like, who cares if they can't land the damn thing? All they plan on doing is starting the puppy up, taxing it, taking off and then crashing the mother into something significant so as to inflict as much mass destruction as possible!

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03/02/2012 9:11 AM

I seriously doubt that any new or secret information is being divulged here. Try a search for similar procedures and I'll bet within the hour you will have everything you need to learn about starting and flight procedures.

You can walk into Walmart and buy Falcon 4 for $40 and freely download service packs that not only take you through the jet's complete startup procedure, but learn how to fly (and land) the aircraft just as the real bird. Even the flight dynamics are pretty close to the real thing.

I am not worried that someone will steal an F-16 off the flight line and I am not really worried about commercial passenger jets.

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03/02/2012 9:39 AM

I do have one of the original Falcon flight sims for over 20 years now.....I don't use it anymore because of incapability with my current OS and PC. All-in-all the flight dynamics of the sim were very close to the "real deal", since I had the extreme pleasure to have gone up in a F-16D 13 years ago with my 1st cousin who was once an Ohio ANG Wing CO (178th TFW "Panthers", Springfiled OH). Starting up a Fighting Falcon is entirely different from the start-up procedures/checklist of a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320.

I'm of the opinion that this sort of info shouldn't be in the public domain whatsoever.....just like the online info on how to build a nuke or a conventional bomb or IED.

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