Hey Sully, Eat This!

[JT12345]

Landing in the Hudson is a lot different then the ocean. Not like he had any choice in the matter. I just think 95% of us could have pulled it off. Give yourselves more credit.


As for apples and oranges...

Sully would have had to go underneathe the George Washington bridge with a big as boat moving into his flight path for it to be more like my experience...

so yeah I guess apples and oranges applies.

 

[hyper]

If he had an ILS approach then a zerozero landing would have been the best choice vs 6 ft waves. He was doing a non precision approach so the chances of landing on the runway were minimal. Does anybody know what the ceiling and vis were that night? He pulled it off so possibly crashing into a building missing the runway might have been a bad idea. It seems that monday morning quarterbacking has taken over again.

Yes, it has, guilty as charged.

The WX at the time of accident was YSNF 181030Z AUTO 16009KT 3000NDV // OVC002 19/18 Q1013

That's VFR if you're a freight dog, but I digress. 2 sets of eyes on board (one in, one out), quite likely an autopilot and a calculated glidepath from the MDA and it's essentially a non-event.

Admittedly, if it were a circling only approach, then I could see a preference for a ditch.

Anyone got plates?

 

[Hamburger]

Hmmm.

Two days waiting for WAnKA and Say Again to enlighten us further on how they would follow their hero's footsteps and run a plane out of gas in the middle of the ocean.

C'mon guys. You called me a lot of names earlier....don't run away now. Be Man enough to stand behind your statements. Couple of questions in post #42 that I'm dying to hear your answer to. Tell this burger-flipping, mouth-breathing, Big Bellied(?), mentally masturbating idiot that putting a perfectly good airplane into the water is Heroic.

I based my assessment on what actually happened. Were you too mesmerized by the dude's picture to read the story?

 

[A-V-8]

My wife felt sorry for the birds after the U.S. Airways incident.