AboutNed Dolan Expertise 38 years as a professional pilot. Worked as an instructor for a major airline, as a tow pilot towing gliders and flew international routes until 1998. Do not know much about the maintenance end of the business.
Experience Teaching new Captains the skills and knowledge needed to
occupy the position.
Helping develop procedures for use in a new airplane
type. (B757)
Question I would like to know what has to be done to actually make an airplane take off. In a car, for example, there's much less 'controls' to operate in a sequenced order.
Answer I'm not sure just what items you are interested in. However, if you assume that the engines have been started and the aircraft is on the runway there only remains the need to increase forward speed to achieve flying speed and rotate the aircraft to climbing attitude and it will be flying.
