I don't know any ex-military pilots who were discharged from active duty who had more than 10,000 hours. So, greater experience, I don't think so. I don't know why the captain didn't start dumping fuel to loose weight any time they were over forests or small slits of water. It would have helped. Hope the flight engineer got canned.
It's like that with everything, Kid. As people get more and more dependent on computer controls, automation & etc., they get stupider, and stupider. Commonly know as devolution. Our species is doomed to suffer a massive, (near?) extinction event in the not too distant future. People in the big cities are especially dependent on a highly organized infrastructure that most of them are completely ignorant as to the mechanics of. They moronically expect that it will just all keep working, like it always has. Unfortunately, the intelligent people who created that infrastructure are dying off, leaving the maintenance of it to stupider and stupider, lazier and lazier people, who are not at all intellectually equipped to deal with any major malfunction. When the shtf, it will be sudden, and cataclysmic.
Things happen for a reason like your Mom not seeing your Dad struggle. She may not have made it after that. I am always amazed in hindsight for these things. The right people, in the right place at the right time.
I flew on one of those 747's into Heathrow. They are unbelievably huge. Looking out the window at the ground as you're waiting to take off, it's a long way to the ground when the plane is still on it. The shear size of them makes you wonder how they fly at all.
In 1978 I flew in a 747 from Dallas to Anchorage with 4 passengers on board. They would fly hundreds of pipeline workers to Texas but none returned and they still needed to get the 747 to Alaska for the next flight to Texas. I put up the arms in a middle row and slept for the entire flight.
Wonder why the video has the a/c using a closed runway?
ReplyDelete...and this is why ex-military pilots, with their greater experience, can keep their calm and get out of trouble. Sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI don't know any ex-military pilots who were discharged from active duty who had more than 10,000 hours. So, greater experience, I don't think so. I don't know why the captain didn't start dumping fuel to loose weight any time they were over forests or small slits of water. It would have helped. Hope the flight engineer got canned.
ReplyDeleteHeck of a story. And the word is that more and more pilots do not know how to fly and rely far too much on the aircraft's computer controls.
ReplyDeleteIt's like that with everything, Kid. As people get more and more dependent on computer controls, automation & etc., they get stupider, and stupider. Commonly know as devolution. Our species is doomed to suffer a massive, (near?) extinction event in the not too distant future. People in the big cities are especially dependent on a highly organized infrastructure that most of them are completely ignorant as to the mechanics of. They moronically expect that it will just all keep working, like it always has. Unfortunately, the intelligent people who created that infrastructure are dying off, leaving the maintenance of it to stupider and stupider, lazier and lazier people, who are not at all intellectually equipped to deal with any major malfunction. When the shtf, it will be sudden, and cataclysmic.
DeleteCompletely agree. As they say "When civilizations fall, they fall fast".
DeleteGreat pilot and thinker. I have a lot of respect for the better pilots of the various fleets out there. Great post, Irish.
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ReplyDeleteThings happen for a reason like your Mom not seeing your Dad struggle. She may not have made it after that. I am always amazed in hindsight for these things. The right people, in the right place at the right time.
ReplyDeleteI flew on one of those 747's into Heathrow. They are unbelievably huge. Looking out the window at the ground as you're waiting to take off, it's a long way to the ground when the plane is still on it. The shear size of them makes you wonder how they fly at all.
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In 1978 I flew in a 747 from Dallas to Anchorage with 4 passengers on board. They would fly hundreds of pipeline workers to Texas but none returned and they still needed to get the 747 to Alaska for the next flight to Texas. I put up the arms in a middle row and slept for the entire flight.
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