Alcohol?
Alcohol?
Well, they were in tower blocks next to the harbour, and the plane landed on an artificial spit of land out in the harbour, so I believe they were higher than me.
In message , Mike Tomlinson writes
Lets be honest, who would sit in a passenger seat with drivel at the wheel
When we were designing the DC power system for the eurofighter, we had to have an amended design for uk machines as they insisted on lead acid batteries
In message , brass monkey writes
Just seen
However, it is impossible to fly a eurofighter without computer assistance
Ah -you're talking commercial there
Indeed, the plane was incapable of doing what the pilot commanded. So it did the best that it could. Without the digital controls it would simply have crashed a bit earlier.
Read more:
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"Two test pilots ejected safely after what officials described as an 'incident inside the aircraft' as it flew at 45,000ft."
I'll bet the heater or rear wiper packed-up.
I realise that, that's why I'd never go anywhere near one.
That's true, I'd expect better safety with the forces. Then again, if you can get a red-arrows pilot ejected into his conservatory roof.........
They have computers for that. Yea, right.
This is so far from the truth its not even funny. Ask a pilot
My mistake.
"According to Kelly Nantel, director of public affairs at the National Transportation Safety Board, there?s never been a commercial airline crash caused by a drunk pilot. And as former airline pilot John Cox told USA Today in 2010, the FAA conducts numerous tests?more than 10,000 pilots are tested every year, with about 12 failing, on average"
Andy
That's the way I've always heard it - he overrode the computer. But there seems to be some dispute and fiddling with evidence. Do you have a link to the official reports anywhere?
Andy
Fortunately the visual and aromatic effects show them up before the take off most all of the time, and they do have a co-pilot next to them who will usually ask questions .. especially Quantas;)...
Pilots might be a little biased.
Oh, that's *really* funny. If only you knew ...
The official report is here:
The digital controls, on this occasion at least and IMHO saved 130 lives.
What I don't understand is what fuckwittery at Air France led to them thinking it was a good idea to perform a low level (100ft) pass at an airshow with a plane that had passengers on board. And what persuaded the pilot to try a manoeuvre at less than 100ft that normally would be demonstrated at 1000ft? It was a c*ck up of Costa Concordia proportions.
Indeed...
Titanic proportions .. in a way much the same feckwittery tearing thru an ice infested ocean at night!....
Two excellent points.
It was an airline pilot who first said that to me. My Seneca came with a complete set of approved blind flying screens and, thanks to a no expenses spared approach by the previous owners when replacing avionics that were stolen, it was particularly well equipped with some of the latest equipment available. That made it a rather popular hire craft for commercial pilots doing instrument training and, from that, simply for leisure hire. The comment came during a conversation about the differences between flying heavy metal and light aircraft.
Colin Bignell
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