On a Wing and a Prayer

[Pinecone]

Definitely.  Pretty much all of Mel Brooks movies could not be today.

The Replacements might do that.  There are a few others, but not many.

[Pinecone]

I can't say anything, as it will end up being a political rant and get me in trouble.

[Ned Gravel]

59 minutes ago, Pinecone said:

I can't say anything, as it will end up being a political rant and get me in trouble.

And that is perhaps the level of discretion that is now more important than ever.  Well done.

[Losbright1]

It was pretty bad overall..the kid that was "going to be a pilot" asked for 'heading 170 North' when she was playing on her sim. I am like "a heading is a heading, there is no north added to it..plus, 170 is south"..and it was amazing how fast the KA went from too fast, to a near stall, etc. There was one part where ATC was telling him he was low, like 3000 or something, then it flashed to Flightaware where it showed him at like 11000+.

I am sure all of our wives were rolling their eyes at our comments during the movie..

[Skates97]

My wife and I tried to watch it, she's the one that said it was so ridiculous she was done watching. Even from the beginning of the problem flight they go from a climb at I think it was around 10,000' when the pilot flops forward onto the yoke and they are now in a dive. A few seconds later they pull out of the dive just above the trees and then are back in a climb at altitude (with the auto-pilot still on despite the previous dive). There are scenes where the flaps are flapping up and down independently (I guess they are called flaps...) and a multitude of other things wrong. The movie has him screaming in over the numbers and down the runway, fast enough he would have never landed it. Reality is his speed was fairly good and he said it was one of his best. He had about 230 hours in 172's and 150 hours of recent time prepping for his Instrument ticket. The movie shows him as having only a introductory flight in a 172 that didn't go well. The real story is not as exciting, but it's a movie based on real events, not a documentary.

AOPA had a good article about it when it happened back in 2009.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2009/april/14/unintentional-king-air-pilot-an-interview-with-doug-white

Edit:

Here's another article from NBC. He was only in the air about 30 minutes from when he called up ATC and was on the ground.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30190350