this is like your hound dog getting under your gas pedal
“What happened heah?”
“Well, Colonel, I forgot to put batteries in my night vision goggles.”
“And?”
“Well, sir, I put on the goggles and everything was black, so I just figured there was nothin’ out there, and the mountain proved otherwise.”
Sounds like it should be blamed on pilot error, not the goggles case.
Preflight check of flight control would have prevented this. Back to basics and fundamentals and the simple things that kill people and destroy aircraft. Kneeboard charts and preflight-postflight checklists are there for a reason.
Does anyone remember the airman who called Rush years ago to complain about the problems resulting from women in fighter cockpits?
He talked about how parts of the cockpit controls had to be disassembled in order to locate retrieve a “broken fingernail” in an F-16 that had been flown by a female.
He kept mentioning the “throttle quadrant” over and over.
I wasn’t completely sure about the guy. He might have been putting Rush on.
The waste of lives, equipment, and treasure this “war” is inflicting on America. It’s astonishing that Americans still put up with the aimless floundering effort there.
There was another model of aircraft (I don’t recall which) that crashed several a few decades ago because a pilot would drop a microphone (inadvertently, of course) into a well between the control-yoke-column and the floor, preventing pulling the yoke back to stop a dive.
What really sucks is that in the few seconds before the plane hit the ground, the pilot probably saw the case stuck in the way of the yoke...
FOD kills 14 more. (Foreign Object Debris/Damage)
But I thought they usually move the flight controls through their motions and make sure the control surfaces respond.
Is it the elevator stop or the case that ends the range of motion and how do you know in the dark?
Bad mistake, easy to make.
My AP is like a surgeon. Counts every tool before he closes. Has cut out foam spots for every tool.
I want a real,well paid expert and anal pilot in the seat and not a drone or rpv on the airline I fly.