Are you saying I'm not a pilot with over 3000 hours of flight time, or I am but I don't actually know how to fly and your second hand anecdotes from "grizzled veteran commercial pilots" trump my actual first hand experience? I'm confused. Seems I hit the white stripes at the end of the runway every single time that I land. Within +_ a couple feet to either side, and I'm hitting a vertical point as well as a horizontal one. On a visual approach, without computer guidance. As do thousands of other pilots on thousands of other flights every day, even crappy pilots. And I can make a pass at 400 knots exactly over the centerline of the runway, again within a couple feet every time at an altitude again within a couple feet, as could any pilot. (and that pilot would have referred to it in knots, we don't think in mph) Or over any arbitrary point, we actually have to demonstrate the ability to do that in our practical exam and it's a skill you pick up in your first 5 hours of flying. BTW, you display your ignorance again as fly by wire describes the way the controls in the cockpit are linked to the actual aircraft controls, it has nothing to do with guidance precision or any connection to an autopilot which can work equally well with fly by wire or push/pull controls. And the "original flight plan" is completely irrelevant to anything. You may be surprised to find that thousands of flights a day occur with no flight plan at all, but of course you don't actually wouldn't know what a flight plan was if one slapped you in the face.You just gave yourself away. You "can fly a plane into a highrise everytime"???? Only if the coordinates have been programmed into the flight plan beforehand. As one grizzled veteran commercial pilot told me "Manually flying a jumbo jet into a skyscraper at 600mph is not possible without computer or wire guidance. Especially if the target wasn't part of the original flight plan." This has been repeated to me in one form or another many times by pilots. It can be easily verified with a little research. Besides that, the vertical and horizontal tails on the plane would have fallen off when the plane entered the steel-framed concrete building. They can't penetrate concrete. The actual truth is that the entire fooking plane should have telescoped but we won't go there.
You're a gov troll or a confused man trying to win a pissing contest. This is easy for me. I don't have to embellish kindergarten bullshit like you do.
I find it hilarious that you began this conversation by accusing me of being full of "Education and book smarts", but then when it turns out I have thousands of hours of actual experience flying aircraft you think your "research" trumps my experience in this area. Again, you know less than nothing about this and have zero credibility to pontificate on it, by your own personal definition that hands on experience trumps book smarts. Sorry my friend, your bubble's been popped and your ideas have been exposed as the frauds they are. If you really believe what you're spouting you belong in an undisclosed bunker somewhere in Montana or receiving help for a mental condition. Either way I feel nothing but sympathy for you and at this point I'm going to stop making you look like a fool because it's just not nice. Good night.