Sully and Jeff Skiles LGA-CLT today

[B-atch]

Did he get the "ditch switch" while he was at it? I guess not. Oh wait, those are USAIR procedures---one guy flies and talks on the radio while the other scrambles for a checklist. Obviously some things were missed, but being at such a low altitude I don't think only one guy should have been heads out, while the other buried in a book. It sure seemed like a one man show to me, which thankfully ended better than expected. I just would have EXPECTED to hear one voice, and then read the OTHER guy hand flew it in. Most of us hadn't heard who the FO was, or even if there was one. It was all about Sully. He told the stews to brace for impact. He told the controller he was heading for the Hudson. He hand flew it in. I guess Skiles was a newhire, with 36 years with the company...... But maybe that is a USAIR procedure.........classic.



Bye Bye--General Lee

...The "ditch switch" is on the ditching checklist. it is 3 pages long, and totally obsolete at 3000 ft. The immediate threat in this case was a dual engine failure, which would warrant the dual engine flame-out in-flight restart checklist. These guys attempted to regain thrust all the way in. What would YOU have done General? oh master of the skies.

 

[redflyer65]

Granted Sully and Skiles did a great job that day, but it begs one more question...


How much more PR can USAir squeeze out of this story?

 

[C-150ETOPS]

...The "ditch switch" is on the ditching checklist. it is 3 pages long, and totally obsolete at 3000 ft. The immediate threat in this case was a dual engine failure, which would warrant the dual engine flame-out in-flight restart checklist. These guys attempted to regain thrust all the way in. What would YOU have done General? oh master of the skies.

Thanks for putting that tool in his place.

Maybe the idiot can tell us how effective closing the outflow valve (2.5 Sq/ft?) would have been when probably 150+ sq/ft of lower aft body fuselage skin was ripped open by the impact.

 

[weasel_lips]

Genital Lee Herpes has no life. That's why he has 14,000 posts... this IS his life. Just ignore the tool.

 

[MCDU]

Genital lee is about as dumb as it gets. Absolutley clueless. It is hard to believe he is an airline pilot. The things this dumbass puts out is really something else. Another PFT rookie with an attitude.

M

 

[Quimby]

Genital lee is about as dumb as it gets. Absolutley clueless. It is hard to believe he is an airline pilot. The things this dumbass puts out is really something else. Another PFT rookie with an attitude.

M

The ignore list works well.

 

[Metrojet]

Did he get the "ditch switch" while he was at it? I guess not. Oh wait, those are USAIR procedures---one guy flies and talks on the radio while the other scrambles for a checklist. Obviously some things were missed, but being at such a low altitude I don't think only one guy should have been heads out, while the other buried in a book. It sure seemed like a one man show to me, which thankfully ended better than expected. I just would have EXPECTED to hear one voice, and then read the OTHER guy hand flew it in. Most of us hadn't heard who the FO was, or even if there was one. It was all about Sully. He told the stews to brace for impact. He told the controller he was heading for the Hudson. He hand flew it in. I guess Skiles was a newhire, with 36 years with the company...... But maybe that is a USAIR procedure.........classic.



Bye Bye--General Lee

I am surprised that someone who has over 13,000 posts would have some knowledge about airline ops. I guess I am incorrect.

Metrojet
(bye the way - they followed the procedures to a T)

 

[Carl S.]

Word on the street is that Skiles is up to 200+ hours in the narrow body airbus!

 

[General Lee]

Genital Lee Herpes has no life. That's why he has 14,000 posts... this IS his life. Just ignore the tool.

Wow! This post was FANTASTIC. He resorts to 4th grade putdowns and he thinks I have no life. You couldn't debate yourself out of a paper bag, and if you fly for USAir you probably drink from one.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[General Lee]

I am surprised that someone who has over 13,000 posts would have some knowledge about airline ops. I guess I am incorrect.

Metrojet
(bye the way - they followed the procedures to a T)

Except for the ditch switch. Anyway........... if you had a problem low level, would you go searching for a checklist..??? I think you need to write 13,000 times on the chalkboard "I should NEVER debate General Lee, I will lose everytime...."

Take care Menstral Jet. Your 737-200s did look like tampons.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[General Lee]

Genital lee is about as dumb as it gets. Absolutley clueless. It is hard to believe he is an airline pilot. The things this dumbass puts out is really something else. Another PFT rookie with an attitude.

M

Wow, so many guesses, and so many misses. Oh well, your name "McDoosh" still applies here. Enjoy it.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[vetrider]

The General is clever and funny, Mcdoosh is just a dick.

 

[Deadalus]

The General is clever and funny, Mcdoosh is just a dick.

I'll second that.

 

[Hpilot]

I'll second that.

I vote "yay", motion passes. The General's Ernest Gann and Mcdoosh is a loser.

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

Just checking in. . . .

Did they make it?