to come back to a very old subject of all platforms, the question of if simmers could land a plane, I guess now it’s possible 
for my part, considering the number of years I sim, and the number of times I miss my landing, I am not really sure to succeed 
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I guess so, as long as you know what you are doing that is😅
I think so, as long as the weather permits
For someone with no experience, having the radios already tuned correctly, and being able to communicate with ATC could mean the difference between life and death.
Or between life and CTD 
If non pilot, non simmers land planes with ATC.
Then yes, non pilot simmers should be able too.
Answer: absolutely
When a simmer knows how to program the ILS and autopilot a simmer can land…
But only PMDG and Fenix simmers can land by hand.
yes. i am a RW pilot and ive spent decades simming before actually flying. its easy! landing on the other hand is the only tricky part that takes some geting used to, i used to come in too fast get stuck in ground effect in the flare and float. that was in DA20, the 172 i fly now is alot easier to put down.
Can any simmer do it. No.
I can only imagine the stress someone would be under in those circumstances and not everyone can handle that no matter how many hours you have behind a PC sim.
Could it help someone having a basic understanding of flight, what basic controls do, and how to use the radio. Yeah maybe it would help.
I think luck and the person on the other end of the radio have more to do with a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency.
The guy that landed the plane with a defunct pilot the other day in Miami *(i think it was) didnt even sim. He’d just been around aviation…
for my part, considering the number of years I sim, and the number of times I miss my landing, I am not really sure to succeed
Depends. Do you really care about small details like “being able to use the plane afterwards”?
by recycling it into a hydroplane, yes
Exactly this. I feel like I could get a GA prop plane down without killing any of the occupants. Whether or not the plane would be usable afterwards though is a totally different thing.
One of the IRL pilots that has a Youtube channel put one of their friends who has no aviation experience in a commercial airline simulator and someone was able to talk her through auto-land.
But even after, he said, he did not think that %100 translated to a real world scenario.
Being talked through programming an auto land is one thing. Once that’s all armed, there’s very little for a non-pilot in the pilot’s seat to do other than soil their undies while frantically praying to whatever shiny man in the sky they may believe in to keep them safe.
Manually landing a plane is going to be a completely different thing.
First off, I’m not a real world pilot.
I think it depends on if you have a coach or not IMHO. I somehow think you’d have a better chance at landing a single engine Cessna or something on your own rather than a highly automated Airbus or the like.
That said, if you had the guidance, you’d probably do a pretty good job at landing an A320 since it pretty much takes care of itself as long as you know how to configure it properly.
Also she was on the ground and in no danger.
In ideal conditions it could be easier to program an airliner to do an auto-land (yes I know it has a more technical name) than to have to hand fly a smaller aircraft.
I think the #1 skill needed would be maintaining calm under stress.
The #2 skill would be knowing/finding the PTT button.
After that there are just to many variables.
With the study level aircraft coming out now I believe a simmer could be able to bring the aircraft safely on the ground with some luck. However, if the simmer has no real-life handling experience of an aircraft, the landing can turn out to be a very difficult task. Turbulence, weather, winds, runway, nighttime and other factors can make the landing much more difficult than u would expect after just flying in msfs2020.
I pretty much landed on the first introductory flight I did. I had hundreds of hours in the A2A C172 so the panel on the real 1970s-ish C172 was nothing new to me. I knew the nose was gonna wanna pitch up and the airspeed drop when adding flaps, I knew the sight picture to look for on landing, I knew when to chop the power as we crossed the runway threshold. and I knew to level off just above the surface and hold it there till it settled on to the runway. The only thing the instructor said he did was a bit of rudder to keep the aircraft aligned. I’m fairly confident that if he wasn’t there, I could have survived landing, just with sloppier yaw control.
I think the biggest factor on determining if a simmer can land a real plane is how serious of a simmer they are. As someone who wanted to fly for years, I always looked at real world procedures and techniques and applied them in the sim, and I bought quality yokes and pedals. If someone is less serious and doesn’t care as much to broaden their knowledge, and they have cheap controls that don’t mimic the real thing very closely, I think the landing will be a lot sketchier. Of course, it would still be better than someone who’s never used a flight sim or flown IRL at all, I think.