Posted on 02/18/2009 8:45:28 AM PST by mick
Awesome! Thanks for posting.
Airbus has been somewhat redeemed in my eyes. I personally have always enjoyed flying on Airbus, but one can’t ignore the shaky tail fin history of the aircraft, at least on older models.
My nephew pilots the same route (same carrier) in RJs
For later read:
I would fly with Sully anywhere.
A.N.Y.W.H.E.R.E.
Awesome indeed. Love the bit about the seatbelt warning being inserted in there.
I always thought that, if required, I could land one of the big birds. Just reading this description, I now know that idea to be complete folly. I have a hard enough time juggling the constant demands for my attention in a 4-seat single engine plane under normal operating conditions, never mind what this flight crew did under such extreme conditions. I am even further in awe than I was before.
B4L8r
I am a ‘private pilot’. I fly single engine, propeller-driven aircraft in ‘good’ (VFR) weather only, generally below 2500’. I fly for the fun of it and to help my father-in-law do aerial timber surveys and photography. Hard surface runways are optional but preferred for us.
With that up front ...
It’s nice that the aircraft designers did all this, but, to me NONE of that, except the ability to light the control panel, control the aircraft, and maintain comms had anything really to do with the safe landing. To me 99% of the reason that aircraft ditched safely was due to the skills and composure of the PF (pilot flying) or what we call the PIC (pilot in command).
The fact that the aircraft did not pitch/tumble or cartwheel or stop too abruptly was due to the way the aircraft entered the water. And the pilot did that, not Airbus, with the minimal assistance of the ‘green dot’ on the way in.
So yes, kudos to Airbus for strength and good systems. But grand huzzahs for the pilot and FO.
Just my opinion.
I’m with you. I can screw up the landing sequence in a simple left-hand pattern in a Tri-Pacer, Champ, 172 ... doesn’t matter.
Since the fields I fly out of are generally rural, my minor-league screw-ups are inconsequential.
I know you and I could get a ‘heavy’ on the ground if we had to. It just may be WAY less than pretty ... oh, and give me 15,000 of runway ahead of me too! ... and 200’ on each side. (got any spare SAC bases I can try it on?)
I've never seen those two words together before.
Only a Brit could come up with that.
If it were me there'd be an additional step at this point involving a very quick trip to the rest room...
It would definitely not be pretty. I’m with you on the former SAC base runways. I used to do a lot of flying in New Hampshire and just loved the massive 12,000 ft. long, 300 ft. wide runway at the former Pease AFB. It fit my Piper Warrior II just fine.
Didn't this happen at 3:30 in the afternoon? There should've been plenty of daylight in the cockpit.
I think he meant the instrument panel.
Okay, that makes sense.
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