great job Saab.......even if it wasnt a dual engine fire, etc, etc...thanks for bringing your pax down safely....

my first emergency...hmmmmmm........

i think the first one that REALLY got my attention was jan 2006 crossing the Atlantic. we were about 300 miles from the Azores enroute to Spain when we heard a LOUD THUMP (radar dish hitting the stop) as we got a utility-A failure on the hydaulics. In the F-15E, that means, you cant drop the gear, you have no brakes, the left engine inlet fails, NO RADAR, etc, etc...

sooooooooooo, we end up diverting to Lages (never been there by the way) and to add to it, there are CB's all over, so the tanker drags us down through the weather (since we have no radar and can't go into radar trail). We are on the wing of our flight lead who is on the wing of the KC-10 going through weather. If you have seen a DC-10's wing "flap" in weather, try experiencing it from the "other" side while trying to stay in formation ON THAT wing. Some of the clouds were so thick that we can only see his position light as the entire airplane disappeared at times.

finally we break out of the weather and the tanker orbits while we manually extend the gear and hook (yup, no brakes means you are taking the approach end cable)....

the flight lead lands and we are next. LUCKILY a dry runway and we hit the cable around 150kts or so. obviously this cable hasnt been used in a while and it produces a quite SUDDEN stop......

other than that one, just your standard display failures (to include a REVERSE ADI...that will screw you up), frozen displays in the weather, lost displays in the weather, bleed air, anti-skid failure that resulted in both main tires blown and sliding down the runway, and a highspeed abort (150Kts+)....

i think that is about all.............


Jeff