Posted on 04/18/2018 7:32:46 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Edited on 04/18/2018 8:35:24 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The pilot
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Yep. Passengers are talking about sending her Christmas cards, but in her head she’s thinking, “That’s what pilots do, right? 99 percent sheer boredom and 1 percent sheer terror? They paid the fare, it’s part of the deal. When am I up next?”
I’m surprised this has turned around. For a while there, airlines were hesitant to hire ex-military — especially fighter pilots. My father flew A-6 Intruders and F4s in the Navy, and T-38s for NASA, and then flew for North Central Airlines back in the 70s. He found the job boring, which is what many military jet pilots learn. After he left, it seemed the airlines figured this out, too.
One more thing - the jet made it back safely on one engine. Boeing. Great planes.
Listened to the audio. That pilot was as cool as a cucumber. Amazing.
That’s the way the Navy trains them.
Common.
Pilot tends to get all the press, co or ‘1st gets ignored. Not that it means they really did anything, or not, but that is the way.
She is not being heralded as a female, but as pilot.
Sully is much heralded, while his co is ignored.
But he got his showing up on American Pickers, out west owning a shop or airline and selling them some parts for their show and shop.
KUDUS to this pilot!
We should all be as fortunate as to have a pilot like her in the cockpit.
Southwest is a great airline - voted in 1 of the 10 best in the world, by the public, and the ONLY one in the USA.
Today, another Southwest was taken down - but safely - after a bird strike.
But this all has me a bit on edge, as my SIL, who just retired from the Coast Guard (flew the C-130’s - and before that the P-3 for the Navy and as an instructor for the Royal Canadian Air Force - Orions.
Also, as a side job while stationed in Kodiak, flew for the bush pilots outfit on Kodiak that did the series on Bush Pilots.
Today, he’s with a team from Southwest, inspecting the damaged engine on that Southwest flight - as a new Southwest pilot in training - he is the kind of pilot. like this gal, - cool, calm under pressure.
But I am a not as calm, mom-in-law...
I’m sure she’s a good pilot, but her job was a LOT easier than Sully’s. How come the other pilot on board is never mentioned?
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You’re flying a plane that suffered a catastrophic engine failure with pieces of the jet turbine blades piercing the fuselage like bomb shrapnel causing rapid decompression of the cabin. You have a plane with one engine, a compromised airframe, and little ability to climb. There is *nothing* easy about that.
Go Navy!
“Saw it”? “Imagination”?
They pulled her back in.
There have been other truly detached engines. Far bigger change.
I don’t recall how many seem to be catastrophic or not so. Mostly probably depends on how many other engines there are.
Thus the danger of fewer engines today.
Now that’s funny right there!
It seems the media believes most girls would just go into hysterics or something like that. The media is apparently sexist?
She has a job, she does it, that’s what a normal person does.
“Let’s change the scenario....there was a thread last week (?) about a AA dude in the Navy”
THE WOMAN IN THE ARENA
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
“Shults, a Christian, once said in an interview that sitting in the captain’s chair gave her “the opportunity to witness for Christ on almost every flight.”
Truly, God is her co-pilot.
Great job!
Many oriental airline pilots are not taught real flying and rely mostly on the flight computers. That is why the tragedy of the airline crash at San Fransisco happened a couple of years ago. The Command Pilot did not identify the problem with their glide slope while on Final did not have the skills to correct the errors.
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