Monday, August 09, 2010
Hudson River Approach
Hudson River Approach: "
A friend sent this to me recently. It made me laugh, so I thought I would share it with you. Interestingly, they actually train for this sort of thing at the airlines. During a sim session at recurrent training last year, my instructor failed both engines during initial climb after flying though a flock of birds at about 3000 feet. Pilots of small single engine aircraft are taught from day one that, in the even of an engine failure after takeoff, returning to the departure airport is virtually impossible. The best action in such an aircraft is to continue straight ahead and search for a field or road for an emergency landing. On my departure in the sim however, the instructor asked me to begin an immediate turn back toward the airport. Surprisingly, not only did I make it back to the airport, but I actually had to dirty up and struggled a bit to get down in time to land. Amazing really...how well a 140,000 lb. aircraft will glide with absolutely no thrust.
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A friend sent this to me recently. It made me laugh, so I thought I would share it with you. Interestingly, they actually train for this sort of thing at the airlines. During a sim session at recurrent training last year, my instructor failed both engines during initial climb after flying though a flock of birds at about 3000 feet. Pilots of small single engine aircraft are taught from day one that, in the even of an engine failure after takeoff, returning to the departure airport is virtually impossible. The best action in such an aircraft is to continue straight ahead and search for a field or road for an emergency landing. On my departure in the sim however, the instructor asked me to begin an immediate turn back toward the airport. Surprisingly, not only did I make it back to the airport, but I actually had to dirty up and struggled a bit to get down in time to land. Amazing really...how well a 140,000 lb. aircraft will glide with absolutely no thrust.
# posted by D @ 9:00 PM 
