Welcome Guest!
Want to take part in these discussions? If you have an account, sign in now.
If you don't have an account, apply for one now.

Field Mouse: Are you smarter than an airline pilot?

Bottom of page arrow

1 to 17 of 17

  1.  
    • CommentAuthorlynthingy
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    http://www.lufthansa-vp.com/vp1/play.html

    This is amazingly fun! Sorry my laptop won't post it correctly, but enjoy!
    •  
      CommentAuthorcassbtt
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    I know this is absolutely terrible, but even with what was probably Microsoft Flight Simulator version 1.1 in the late 80's, all I ever tried to do was fly straight into buildings. I've never been into games. No patience for 'em.
    •  
      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    Lyn what a horribly addictive game!!
    It will have the Americans on this forum tied up in knots. Most of them don't even know where 'eye-rack' or Afghanistan are on a map. Let alone Europe.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    ih-ROCK is in the middle east. Afghanistan is...uh...to the east of the middle east. Borders POCKistahn, and is not far from China. One of the little -istans is between Afghanistan and China, but I can never remember which one it is. Tajikistan? I'll resist looking at a map.

    Am I right, Cad?
    •  
      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    Mrsthing thank you, that has just given Cad the biggest smile of the day...
    • CommentAuthorlynthingy
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    I must admit I was getting very full of myself until I got to the level without boarders... crash and burn... but it was still fun!

    Cass: I could NEVER play video games - this one is more like a quiz to me, but to each his own!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    I suck at video games, too. I think too much, get distracted by all the movement and colors and things that don't make sense.

    I didn't play the geography game yet. I'll try soon, though.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    Hey, I'm better at this than I thought. Of course, a lot of it was guessing (Gothenberg! Uh, sounds Swedish), and some of the loss was due to my failing memory (Bucharest, Budapest, whatever--LOL!).

    On my last guess for Birmingham, England, I made a stab at the middle of the country, and got within 14 miles! WOO-HOO! :boogie:
    •  
      CommentAuthorDrMom
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    Wow, I need some serious remedial tutoring in geography! I couldn't get closer than 100 miles to anywhere!!:shamed:

    I'm with you MrsT--I have no patience for video games.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    I'm sure it was just luck, nothing more. I was about 800 miles off with Bucharest.
    •  
      CommentAuthorcassbtt
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2009
     
    I'll keep trying it, then, since so many of you seem to be having fun. Maybe I can dump the plane into the drink and make a big exciting splash or something.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009
     
    Try a little Absinthe or cooking sherry! I did very well. ( Being a former MC pilot's wife helped). ( Does anyone one know where Minnosoda is? Doesn't seem to be on the map)!

    "What? U S map? Speling?" :shamed::shocked::bigsmile:
  13.  
    I took flight school but never became a pilot. So I guess I'm inbetween smart and dumb.
    •  
      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009 edited
     
    Cad holds helicopter and air craft license's, but still has trouble finding where he's going... Still most people are very friendly when you land in their garden/house to ask for directions... Cad is usually greeted by people waving and shouting...
  15.  
    So this topic header COULD read, are you smarter than Cad???

    (Hoping Cad only flies in England, after that acknowledgement of the shouting people)
  16.  
    OMG I landed easily in St Petersburg, Malaga, Oslo, Frankfurt ecc and when asked to land in Naples I went straight to Rome :shamed:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2009
     
    I hate flying, even when I'm not having bowel spasms, willing the vomit to stay down, and confessing my sins. It's uncomfortable, confining, and BORING! But it's really the best way to travel long distances.
 

1 to 17 of 17

  1.