Anybody watching this aviation movie on CBS?

[cezzna]

I know all movies with airplanes are not realistic to us pilots but geez. SST takes a missle and explosively decompresses at 60,000 ft. Everybody can still breathe and panic and talk for like 3-5 minutes. Then they all finally pass out and the captain dies. They would have all passed out in seconds. All would have been dead in minutes. It just annoys me.

 

[staledog]

heck yes I'm watching it!! i jumped on here just to see how many people were making fun of it. BWAHAHAA!!!!!!

 

[zugzug]

60k, milliseconds

 

[Flying Illini]

I was just about to post this topic...It's called "Mayday."

My favorite is how the military was going to shoot it down to cover their mistake, and then how the airline was thinking about crashing it due to the insurance payouts and how it may ruin the airline.

I like how most pax passed out...but several didn't...even the one in the lav who wasn't wearing O2.

I will admit though, watching superman is mildly entertaining.

 

[Flying Illini]

I like how they can type on the FMS (datalink) with two hands...it also sounds like a normal keyboard.
Sigh...watching an aviation movie with pilots just ruins it.

 

[GravityHater]

60k, milliseconds

TUC at 600 is about 9 seconds.
They tell you about the noise, the cold, the fog, the disorientation.
What they fail to tell you about it the agonizing abdominal and sinus/middle ear pain.

 

[Av8rPHX]

Hahaha, I just got home from working my other job and my folks had this on tv... I busted up laughing when the "pilot" said "turn on the afterburners, its the "AB" buttons"

 

[staledog]

WOW that was a great flick. :laugh:

"san fransico center, we are climbing to flight level sixty-five thousand feet, estimated cruise speed 940 knots."

 

[garf12]

I like how most pax passed out...but several didn't...even the one in the lav who wasn't wearing O2.

I missed that part in the movie so Im not sure if it was explained, but In the book the story goes that the lav is sealed so the air stays in there.

 

[QuasarZ]

Yea.. I watched it. got a good laugh.. I like how they were at 11,000 feet and then at 1500 like 10 seconds later

 

[Mr Wu]

F/O "flight 52 requesting pushback"

ATC "Flight 52, cleared for takeoff"

 

[redd]

I was watching a program on SWAT teams on MSNBC, upon reading this post, I switched to the airline movie and saw a guy being sucked down a flight of stairs, down the aisle in the cabin, and finally after about 2 minutes worth of a journey, out through the hole in the side of the airplane....I think I'll go back to the SWAT team documentary.....

 

[FN FAL]

TUC at 600 is about 9 seconds.
They tell you about the noise, the cold, the fog, the disorientation.
What they fail to tell you about it the agonizing abdominal and sinus/middle ear pain.

Not only that...in space, no one can hear you scream. :nuts:

 

[FN FAL]

I switched to the airline movie and saw a guy being sucked down a flight of stairs, down the aisle in the cabin, and finally after about 2 minutes worth of a journey, out through the hole in the side of the airplane...

What do you think they were talkin bout in flight school when they said, "from a high to a low, look out below"?

 

[JimNtexas]

Hey it wasn't that bad. The crew of the 940 knot super airline included a Navigator (At least until he got sucked out the hole in the side of airplane)! All I want to know is what's the pay and QOL and I'm so there.

And I really liked the part where the Navy O-5 was bossing the Admiral around.

 

[Snakum]

I switched to the airline movie and saw a guy being sucked down a flight of stairs, down the aisle in the cabin, and finally after about 2 minutes worth of a journey, out through the hole in the side of the airplane

Something about this made me squirt coffee out of my nose! :laugh:

Hate I missed it. uke:


Minh

 

[sky37d]

And, a Skymaster pilot saved the day!!

 

[Flying Illini]

I missed that part in the movie so Im not sure if it was explained, but In the book the story goes that the lav is sealed so the air stays in there.

Well that goes without saying, all lavs are air-tight. But the problem is that the lav door kept opening and closing so the guy in there could see what was happening.

 

[Flying Illini]

I switched to the airline movie and saw a guy being sucked down a flight of stairs, down the aisle in the cabin, and finally after about 2 minutes worth of a journey, out through the hole in the side of the airplane.

Why is it that the only black guy on board had to die?!


Also, when the captain and fo went to put their O2 on, I like how their masks were sucked out of their hands and just disappeared never to be seen again.

 

[Mr Wu]

How about the state of the art glass cockpit having a regular old steam gauge altimeter. Must have been the stby........