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The bravest men I ever met in my life Kerbie were Huey pilots. These guys had stones of brass and many of us Vietnam vets wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for those guys. Glad they finally got a special memorial for the chopper pilots in Nam who went above and beyond and paid the ultimate price.
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Yes, sir... I agree. I've known several. Remarkable men. Bird Dog pilots and other forward air controllers were pretty amazing too.
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That they were Kerbie, that they were.
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I have a friend that is a private pilot and flies a Beech Baron. He's an experienced pilot. His buddy, that flies for UPS invited him to come and fly in the 747 simulator one Saturday. He said he took off OK, and flew around OK, but when he was making his approach to land he bottomed out on the runway and crashed. He said he forgot that he had about 20' of airplane under his butt instead of about 4-5 feet with the Baron.
His buddy laughed and said that is a pretty common thing if you are used to flying small aircraft.
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Their mistakes were very similar to what I said about the trickiness of flying the A-320. They had chopped all the power which is never appropriate at that point on approach. Then they got into a descent mode that did not allow the engine thrust to return to normal when it was needed. They just did a poor job of managing the automation systems on a beautiful, blue-sky day. |
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I think I heard that there was a crew management problem where the co-pilot was afraid to question the judgement of the pilot. As I recall I saw it on one of those "Seconds From Disaster" shows and they said it had been a challenge amongst Asian pilots to get the whole mutual submission thing going.
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Read about the recent 737-8 Max/ Lion Air Crash.
Automation gone wrong due to a failed AOA sensor combined with confusing or lack of training on how to disable the “feature “. I’ve been told the airline cockpit of the future will contain a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to bite the man if he touches anything 😀 Rich |
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I don't believe that was the case in San Fran, Bob. Actually, it was practically the opposite. The left-seat captain was still in training on the 777. The last phase of training is called Initial Operating Experience and involves flying regular, revenue flights with a training captain who is flying in the right seat to assist in the education of the captain. The left-seat captain was flying... he had less than 40 hours in the airplane and it was his first landing ever at SFO. So, why the instructor pilot in the right seat failed to call for a go around is a mystery to me... a human error of judgment. |