In terms of formal flight training, none. During the flight, Brian looks around the cockpit and thinks about how unfamiliar everything is.
"Brian saw dials, switches, meters, knobs, levers, cranks, lights, handles that were wiggling and flickering, all indicating nothing that he understood..."
Then the pilot asks, "Ever fly in the copilot's seat before?"
"Brian shook his head. He had never been in any kind of plane, never seen the cockpit of a plane except in films or on television."
The pilot then gives Brian a brief flying lesson before the symptoms of the heart attack begin to overwhelm him. Brian makes a slight turn and begins to get an understanding of how to keep the plane in the air, something that he'll use later, after the pilot is incapacitated.
But, for the most part, Brian is completely unprepared, both technically and emotionally, for his emergency solo flight.
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