Category Archives: Aircraft

“I could never handle crosswinds”

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I remember a pilot telling that to my father many years ago, when I was very young.  He and my father were taking me up in some kind of an old over-wing single engine aircraft with a radial engine; that much I also remember.  The plane was blue, and I got to “fly” it for a minute or so, trying hard just to keep it level.

How’d you like to be a passenger in a plane whose pilot is attempting to land here, in these kinds of crosswinds?

Ultimately that’s a lot of Old School “stick and rudder” flying, as they say.

BZ

 

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Could you land a 737?

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These days, yes, you might be able to.

This neophyte was “talked through” an approach and landing in a Boeing 737 simulator from 2,500 feet AGL, to London’s Gatwick.

Think about that for a few moments.

Check Balticaa.

Also check out: can a 15-year-old student land a 737-800?

Are we beginning to see a common thread here?

What is automation doing to aviation?

BZ

P.S.
Hell, while I’m here, I can’t neglect to mention PilotsEye.tv, an incredible website.

And from that, the best of PilotsEye.

Starting a Boeing 737-800.  Pre-flight extensive checklist.

Question: would you fly in a pilot-less commercial aircraft?

 

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Germanwings co-pilot: a convert to Islam?

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From Speisa.com:

The co-pilot of the Germanwings Airbus was a convert to Islam

According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz.

Translation from German:

All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus machine in his six-months break during his training as a pilot in Germanwings, converted to Islam and subsequently either by the order of “radical”, ie. devout Muslims , or received the order from the book of terror, the Quran, on his own accord decided to carry out this mass murder. As a radical mosque in Bremen is in the center of the investigation, in which the convert was staying often, it can be assumed that he – as Mohammed Atta, in the attack against New York – received his instructions directly from the immediate vicinity of the mosque.

Is this the equivalent of a German “Mini-9/11”?

BZ

 

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