Sawing the MD80 yoke!

[Cardinal]

Saw a pilot land a Beech like that once...then a passenger asked, "Gee, sure looked like you were workin' hard!!"

And to add one irrelevant point to the discssion, that tower controller sounded hot!

 

[mar]

Looked like standard Metroliner technique to me.

Where does the name "george" originate from when refering to the AP.

I think George is just a funny way to think of the autopilot as a "third" pilot, so to speak.

You know, Dick is the Capt, Tom is the copilot, George is the autopilot.

<shrug>

 

[profile]

The end result does appear to be the same, and generally will be, unless there are any adverse handling quality issues. Unfortunately, except for the newest fighters coming off the line, none of the aircraft currently flying have really been tested for high gain pilot inputs, so it is a good way to discover something new!

 

[AA717driver]

Unfortunately, except for the newest fighters coming off the line, none of the aircraft currently flying have really been tested for high gain pilot inputs, so it is a good way to discover something new!

Yeah, this thread initially reminded me of that video of the F-22 during one of the early flights when they lost the FCC's and it was bobbing all over the place till the pilot finally got a decent belly landing out of it. Must have hit the bottom of the oscillation juuuuussssttttt right. TC