Posted on 05/11/2022 8:27:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK........................
A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a light aircraft at an airport in Florida after his pilot fell unconscious, in what has been described as “nothing short of a miracle.”
Remarkable audio from the cockpit showed the man telling air traffic control: “I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent and I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”
The man, who has not been identified, was a passenger on a Cessna 208 Caravan and was flying home to Florida from the Bahamas to see his pregnant wife. However, just off the coastline, about 70 miles north of their destination, the pilot suffered what is thought to be a medical emergency.
Facing a potential catastrophe, the passenger made contact with air traffic control, who asked for his position. “I have no idea,” he said. “I can see the coast of Florida in front of me.”
“Try to hold the wings level and see if you can start descending for me, the air traffic controller has heard telling the man. “Push forward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate.
“Try to follow the coast either north or southbound. We’re trying to locate you.”
Continue reading (there’s much more)…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10804051/Passenger-small-plane-guided-air-traffic-control-land-safely-pilot-falls-unconscious.html
This clip has the air traffic audio exchange
A high wing single engine plane like this one CAN be flown using only the wheel and the throttle. No rudder required. You’ll fly pretty sloppily, but you’ll do fine.
Caravan is very stable and well behaved in the air.
When will he be arrested for flying without a license?
Brian Williams had to land the space shuttle when the astronauts passed out.
Like a gymnast, he "stuck" the landing!
The passenger did a great job because he had complete control of his motions. Had he panicked, he would never have been able to follow Robert Morgan’s instructions.
But Morgan is the real hero.
I have 10,000 hours in mostly light twins but zero time, not even a ride in a Cessna 208.
What Morgan had to do is almost impossible for a non pilot to understand. power management so as to descend without excessive speed, especially on final approach where power management and trim speed is critical, changes in pitch as power and speeds change during approach, fuel management, , rate if descent so as to arrive at the runway not too high, not too low, not too fast or too slow....
Even though that aircraft is a single engine, the size, power of the engine and ability to carry heavy loads results in pitch changes that could very well panic a person who has no understanding of the, power and airspeed relation to pitch.
Morgan talked the guy trough all of these very critical steps. A fantastic job.
His students are very fortunate.
😱😱
Joe Biden was an instructor at the National Flight Academy, Pensacola, FL.
Never flew one - just fixed ‘em when the pilots broke ‘em.
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VIDEO: Passenger lands Cessna after pilot falls unconscious
https://rumble.com/v14ced1-passenger-lands-cessna-after-pilot-falls-unconscious.html
My brother is a teacher. One of his high school students told him that he went to a Young Eagles day at a local airport. Young Eagles is a program to teach about general aviation to kids.
He asked the pilot if he could call the tower on the radio for permission to take off. It was a small airport so the pilot allowed it.
He nailed the direction word for word. The pilot asked how he knew that and he said he was an avid flight simulator player. She told him to take the yoke and take off, which he did. She let him do the entire flight including the landing.
It was the first time he’d ever been in any plane.
I’ve flown a few times as a passenger in a small plane. I’ve wondered what I’d do if the pilot faints. I see the pilots look in a book or map to determine the frequency of an airport they want to talk to, and then set their radio.
If my pilot faints, how do I tune to the frequency of a nearby airport? Worst case I can’t talk to anyone on the ground. Big worry.
Great story. Here is the VASAviation video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDwzNtDMlA
Strange, the plane has a float plane option but was landed safely at an airport.
“A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a light aircraft at an airport in Florida after his pilot fell unconscious”
Really? Later in the article it says
“Morgan had never flown the Cessna 208 Caravan plane before, WBPF reports, but is an FAA-certified flight instructor with around 1,200 hours of flying time under his belt.”
OK. He had never flown a Cessna 208 before but it wasn’t like he was some bloke who had never flown an airplane before.
🤔🧐
Landing is the hard part of learning to fly...
Thus the endless touch-and-goes...
This coulda been worse, the plane might have been an Aerostar 700, not a fun plane to land..IMO
Morgan is the air traffic controller, not the passenger.
121.5
It is monitored from every airport and also from low orbit satellites....and many planes in the air.
morgan was the ATC
“I just want to say ‘good luck’. We’re all counting on you.”
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