Richard B. Russell, the former Horizon Air employee who took to the skies in a stolen airplane in Seattle, gleaned what knowledge he had of flying planes from video games.
Russell, now deceased, went down with the Q400 turboprop aircraft after commandeering it to fly around for around an hour. The New York Times reports that, when asked by air traffic controller if he was comfortable just “flying around,” he stated “I played video games before, so, you know, I know what I’m doing a little bit.” The craft ended up crashing. Horizon Air chief executive Gary Beck stated that Russell was without a pilot’s license, and that he “didn’t know” how Russell “achieved the experience he did.”
In terms of utilizing video game simulations to learn how to pilot airplanes in the real world, experts do believe it’s possible to gain enough knowledge from one...
Russell, now deceased, went down with the Q400 turboprop aircraft after commandeering it to fly around for around an hour. The New York Times reports that, when asked by air traffic controller if he was comfortable just “flying around,” he stated “I played video games before, so, you know, I know what I’m doing a little bit.” The craft ended up crashing. Horizon Air chief executive Gary Beck stated that Russell was without a pilot’s license, and that he “didn’t know” how Russell “achieved the experience he did.”
In terms of utilizing video game simulations to learn how to pilot airplanes in the real world, experts do believe it’s possible to gain enough knowledge from one...
- 8/13/2018
- by Brittany Vincent
- Variety Film + TV
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