Posted on 02/20/2025 9:58:19 AM PST by Enterprise
Right. I saw an F-18 Navy pilot and Commercial Airline pilot on FNC say from the data he had seen was that they were landing with a 1100 foot per minute rate of descent. He said the normal rate of descent to land on a carrier is about 800 feet per minute rate of descent. Sounds like they were a little “hot”.
A friend, with 25 years as a qualified commercial airliner pilot - 15 of them as a captain, was recently promoted to fly 777s. After 'certification' classes, status will be 'recently qualified'.
Context is everything.
Girl First Officer was flying the plane - just got her ATP certificate in January. She has been flying smaller aircraft for a long time so does not lack experience in the air but she does not have many hours in the type - especially handling difficult crosswind landings.
How much of this was DEI promotion and how much was just the generic state of regional air crew hiring in 2025 remains to be seen. But if true it's a huge black eye for a lot of executives.
Too funny
LOL
“”They have to have 1500 flight hours before they are certified.””
1500 hours just to get the ATP certificate. AFTER that is training in the particular aircraft which they are assigned to IF they want to go to the airlines. Not a short period by any means!
https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/learn-to-fly/flying-for-a-career/airline-transport-pilot
First Officer - yes.
How about…I’ll bet you 10 bucks, we’re gonna bounce. ;-)
One person should be flying the plane during landing, I would think. Some landings are harder than others. Both the pilot and co-pilot should be capable.
That plane looks distinctively bent.
Jordan Peterson often discusses the math of this. Yes, overall, women are comparable with men in standard IQ, computational ability, logical problem solving etc... but are very different in temperament, interests and of course, physical strength.
He points out that in the most gender-equal societies (like Nordic countries) with complete freedom of career choice - women actually choose traditionally "feminine" fields like nursing and teaching (and men go into construction, engineering, etc..) at even higher rates than other western countries like the USA, Canada.
If a company or agency has a quota to get to 50% female engineers, police, pilots or whatever, but women in these fields are only 10% or 15% of the applicant pool, to meet the quota, it logically means you must take even the worst-performing females, while rejecting highly qualified men.
“a crash course”
Love it.
I seem to remember that “infant mortality” is a statistical term. It refers to errors, defects, etc. that are very high at first then fall off considerably. If you can manage your first X (for example, ten) number of landings without incident, you will probably be able to have a career with safe landings. One would hope the certification process would be adequate. Still if something odd happened, a new pilot, regardless of sex, might not be able to cope.
As a former small time aviator, my experience in typical landing procedure involved flaring into ground effect and easing the aircraft down from there. This works even in cross winds.
My mother was given the job of reading the road signs. And you never heard anything else. lol
You don't flare on landing by adding power. At the point of flare, you've already set the throttle/s and are pulling back on the yoke until the aircraft wings stall and the wheels touch the ground.
That explains it!
It was an “unmanned” flight.
“Certified” does not mean anything, without saying “certified to do what?”
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