Planespotting II
#1021
Re: Planespotting II
Anyway, soon there won’t be any need for heroes.....
https://www.businessinsider.com/airb...i-ti&r=US&IR=T
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#1022
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Re: Planespotting II
So you think they don't teach pilots what to do when the engine cuts out? LOL
They test you before your first solo flight ( I solo'd in 5 hours) . Sometime during your private license check ride they pull the power and you have to do a sequence of things in the proper order or you flunk. They do it on your instrument rating check ride, your commercial check ride, your CFI check ride, your CFII check ride, your ATP check ride...They never stop testing that, I would guess because it's pretty important..LOL
It was in Florida in the early eighties... Those flights set me up for life, my only regret is that I didn't do more of them
Yeah, when the runway is 100 miles long and a half mile wide it is.
Nobody is suggesting that it is preferable to land a commercial aircraft full of passengers in a filthy river, LOL... I am merely saying any pilot could of done that. I don't really understand where all the anger is coming from, I suppose i'm coming off as a little arrogant. I'll work on that as i'd like to be able to fit in here.
Yes, I actually had to fly the 727...It didn't even have a glass cockpit, it was original circa 1960's. Me and the other guy flying it had to load it with mail before we flew it.. and unload it at our destination. It was dangerous, almost crashed on one bitter cold stormy night in Billings, Montana and the wife said that's it, we don't need the money..
That plane had more orange deferred item stickers on it than was legal
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They test you before your first solo flight ( I solo'd in 5 hours) . Sometime during your private license check ride they pull the power and you have to do a sequence of things in the proper order or you flunk. They do it on your instrument rating check ride, your commercial check ride, your CFI check ride, your CFII check ride, your ATP check ride...They never stop testing that, I would guess because it's pretty important..LOL
Nobody is suggesting that it is preferable to land a commercial aircraft full of passengers in a filthy river, LOL... I am merely saying any pilot could of done that. I don't really understand where all the anger is coming from, I suppose i'm coming off as a little arrogant. I'll work on that as i'd like to be able to fit in here.
That plane had more orange deferred item stickers on it than was legal
.
Last edited by The Mirror; Jul 29th 2020 at 10:38 pm.
#1024
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Location: 1.2 East
Posts: 762
Re: Planespotting II
So you think they don't teach pilots what to do when the engine cuts out? LOL
They test you before your first solo flight ( I solo'd in 5 hours) . Sometime during your private license check ride they pull the power and you have to do a sequence of things in the proper order or you flunk. They do it on your instrument rating check ride, your commercial check ride, your CFI check ride, your CFII check ride, your ATP check ride...They never stop testing that, I would guess because it's pretty important..LOL
It was in Florida in the early eighties... Those flights set me up for life, my only regret is that I didn't do more of them
Yeah, when the runway is 100 miles long and a half mile wide it is.
Nobody is suggesting that it is preferable to land a commercial aircraft full of passengers in a filthy river, LOL... I am merely saying any pilot could of done that. I don't really understand where all the anger is coming from, I suppose i'm coming off as a little arrogant. I'll work on that as i'd like to be able to fit in here.
Yes, I actually had to fly the 727...It didn't even have a glass cockpit, it was original circa 1960's. Me and the other guy flying it had to load it with mail before we flew it.. and unload it at our destination. It was dangerous, almost crashed on one bitter cold stormy night in Billings, Montana and the wife said that's it, we don't need the money..
That plane had more orange deferred item stickers on it than was legal
.
They test you before your first solo flight ( I solo'd in 5 hours) . Sometime during your private license check ride they pull the power and you have to do a sequence of things in the proper order or you flunk. They do it on your instrument rating check ride, your commercial check ride, your CFI check ride, your CFII check ride, your ATP check ride...They never stop testing that, I would guess because it's pretty important..LOL
It was in Florida in the early eighties... Those flights set me up for life, my only regret is that I didn't do more of them
Yeah, when the runway is 100 miles long and a half mile wide it is.
Nobody is suggesting that it is preferable to land a commercial aircraft full of passengers in a filthy river, LOL... I am merely saying any pilot could of done that. I don't really understand where all the anger is coming from, I suppose i'm coming off as a little arrogant. I'll work on that as i'd like to be able to fit in here.
Yes, I actually had to fly the 727...It didn't even have a glass cockpit, it was original circa 1960's. Me and the other guy flying it had to load it with mail before we flew it.. and unload it at our destination. It was dangerous, almost crashed on one bitter cold stormy night in Billings, Montana and the wife said that's it, we don't need the money..
That plane had more orange deferred item stickers on it than was legal
.
BTW, I have an ATPL, ETOPS, Wide body left seat.
#1025
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Re: Planespotting II
I remember when I first got the license...When I was 15 or so I flew right down my street..As fast as I could go. A neighbor down the street RAN to my house in a panic. He knew my dad was a pilot and told him " AN AIRPLANE JUST FLEW RIGHT DOWN THE STREET! BELOW POWER LINES, BELOW TREES, CARS, KIDS ON BIKES!!!! WHO DO I CALL!!!???.....
My dad said he told him "You call me" Bwha ha ha ha ha ha
My dad didn't even say "WTF son?, or "don't do that again', he just laughed... Looking back now I wonder if he wanted me to die or something?
#1026
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Re: Planespotting II
I used to get the odd free airplane ride with bush pilots in northern Manitoba, and some of them were white-knuckle trips. Good experience, just for the experience. Actually the day I got there, there was a foot of snow on the runway (the flight the previous day had been cancelled because of the blizzard) and when our Twin Otter (on Transair, a real airline!) came in it just careened from one side to the other all the way down the runway; sort of a controlled crash. Welcome to the North. There were few landing strips and few beacons, but there were no roads.
#1028
Re: Planespotting II
I came across this while browsing Youtube today. unrealistic I know, Hollywood I know, but it still remains one of my favorite movie aviation scenes.
From 'Behind Enemy Lines'
From 'Behind Enemy Lines'
#1029
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Posts: 97
Re: Planespotting II
I remember when I first got the license...When I was 15 or so I flew right down my street..As fast as I could go. A neighbor down the street RAN to my house in a panic. He knew my dad was a pilot and told him " AN AIRPLANE JUST FLEW RIGHT DOWN THE STREET! BELOW POWER LINES, BELOW TREES, CARS, KIDS ON BIKES!!!! WHO DO I CALL!!!???.....
My dad said he told him "You call me" Bwha ha ha ha ha ha
My dad didn't even say "WTF son?, or "don't do that again', he just laughed... Looking back now I wonder if he wanted me to die or something?
My dad said he told him "You call me" Bwha ha ha ha ha ha
My dad didn't even say "WTF son?, or "don't do that again', he just laughed... Looking back now I wonder if he wanted me to die or something?
Shortly after that my parents said "son, we have to talk to you'. They sat me down and said "we don't want you to take any of your friends up in an airplane unless their parents sign this piece of paper first".. I put up a little fight, then said "ok", but I never asked anybody to sign anything.
#1030
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Re: Planespotting II
I came across this while browsing Youtube today. unrealistic I know, Hollywood I know, but it still remains one of my favorite movie aviation scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8u_XzbSuQ
From 'Behind Enemy Lines'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8u_XzbSuQ
From 'Behind Enemy Lines'
It's a cartoon!
Last edited by The Mirror; Jul 29th 2020 at 11:20 pm.
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