AVIATION PING!.......................
AVIATION PING!.......................
A happy ending, amazing story…..( hope the pilot is OK)
I have never flown, but I would imagine that if you have clear weather and visibility, the hardest part about landing a plane is knowing the best landing speed to use with flaps on. Too slow and you stall, too fast and you use up your runway trying to stop.
All flying planes land. It’s just a question of equipment re-use.
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air traffic control, who asked for his position.
“I’m seated and holding a microphone and a rosary.”
Vaxx?
Did he “land it” or did he “LAND IT”? Big difference! LOL
Glad all is good....
I give it a week before someone makes a flight simulator video that recreates this event with the audio synced.
Note to self - never fly in a plane without a copilot.
He’s a natural! The Navy or Air Force ought to recruit him.
Brian Williams had to land the space shuttle when the astronauts passed out.
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.
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VIDEO: Passenger lands Cessna after pilot falls unconscious
https://rumble.com/v14ced1-passenger-lands-cessna-after-pilot-falls-unconscious.html
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.