I like to think I practice not crashing.

[Hugh Johnson]

http://www.slate.com/id/2182343?GT1=10837

I wish there was more concrete information on what happened. My training seems to concentrate on not crashing. This article is pretty lame, and it makes lite of the simulator training we all take. My only comment on their lack of power claim, "Spool up." Monday quarterbacking, of course.

 

[The_Russian]

While our training typically concentrates on "not crashing", I have practiced crashing in the sim. Instructors sometimes throw out extreme situations where everything has failed and we must put it down as best as possible. Most of these scenarios include control loss (full of partial) and complete power loss.

Specific aircraft situations that many of us have run though include the unrecoverable prop overspeed in the E120 and the single engine, full manual reversion, loss of all generator approach in the 727. Those are two that I am familiar with, anyway.

 

[Thedude]

In the 727 loss of all gens and full manual reversion are land-abel conditions.

 

[Princedietrich]

In the 727 loss of all gens and full manual reversion are land-abel conditions.

Yeah, if you're up front. Trying being "Scotty" on one of these scenarios and you'll want to roll over and die.

 

[The_Russian]

In the 727 loss of all gens and full manual reversion are land-abel conditions.

Yes, by themselves. Add a single engine approach and it gets hairy! You will not be able to go around, you are committed. I was just giving examples as a counter point to the article.

 

[Thedude]

Yeah, if you're up front. Trying being "Scotty" on one of these scenarios and you'll want to roll over and die.

I was also a plumber on the 727.

 

[The_Russian]

I was also a plumber on the 727.

At least you guys have a table to put your book on. I have to fight for space between my wang and the yoke just to have a nice read.

 

[A Squared]

At least you guys have a table to put your book on. I have to fight for space between my wang and the yoke just to have a nice read.

Against my better judgement....have you had a sex-change operation recently?

 

[Princedietrich]

At least you guys have a table to put your book on. I have to fight for space between my wang and the yoke just to have a nice read.

That was one of the great perks of the job, being able to eat from a table. Well, that and being able to pop the FO in the back of the head when they did something stupid.

The only drawback was that if one of the pilots did something to anger the FAs, guess who they'd see first when they came through the flight deck door.

But you definitely haven't lived until you've had to fight off a 9 light trip, a complete A and B hydro failure, dual pack failure, a fuel dump, a manual gear crank, AND STILL get the V speeds to the captain before he bites your head off. Most exhausting checkride of my life, hands down.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

At least you guys have a table to put your book on. I have to fight for space between my wang and the yoke just to have a nice read.

I'm wondering too.