MCDU
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Something most professional pilots already knew about 1549
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/books/11book.html?hpw
Something most professional pilots already knew about 1549
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/books/11book.html?hpw
Mr. Langewiesche, like many airline CEOs and managers who have pilots licences arrogantly assume that the job of a professional airline pilot is just as easy as flying their Bonanza from Teterboro to the Hamptons. This jack hole in the interest of making a buck feels the need to desparage Sully and his fine crew. After all, he was able to do the water landing himself when he tried it on Flight Sim.
Wow - with your vast background I tremble to address your post. Obviously you disagree with the author and trash his pedigree - too bad he couldn't bring everything to the table that you do.
In your infinite wisdom, of course, you are aware that Mr. Langewiesche is the son of Wolfgang Langewiesche who wrote "Stick and Rudder" in 1944. This was considered the bible for learning to fly for decades by thousands of esteemed aviators. He grew up in an aviation household surrounded by aviators during the golden age of aviation. I guess he could have spent some time droning around the SouthEast in a Brasilia to qualify his remarks.
Maybe if your ego deflates you could read other EXCELLENTLY researched articles by Mr. Langewiesche such as his exhaustive research into TWA 800 or the Columbia accident before you go off half cocked and uninformed. Maybe you could even get a little time in the A-320 as well as a variety of older ones before determining the veracity of the authors point of view. You might even realize that he was not trashing Mr Sullenberger as much as offering a point view a little more nuanced than slathering hero worship.