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iPhone App Lets Users 'Fly' Like Sully

Flight simulator includes actual air traffic communication from US Airways 1549

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 24, 2009 1:41 AM CDT

(Newser) – A new iPhone app gives users the opportunity to compare their flying skills to those of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, reports the Unofficial Apple Weblog. The "Sully's Flight" simulator application re-creates the conditions experienced by Flight 1549 before the hero pilot safely brought it down in the Hudson River. The app includes the actual air traffic communication, and the image of a flock of birds that can't be avoided.

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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, hero pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed into the Hudson River in January, makes an appearance on CBS's "The Early Show" last month. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

First officer Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot aboard US Airways flight 1549, attends the annual NATCA Safety Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Flight 1549 after it safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in January. (AP Photo/Steven Day)

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iPhone App Lets Users 'Fly' Like Sully