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Old 03-06-2019, 08:20 PM
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Mesabah
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke View Post
No. Not remotely so.

For starters, that mishap had nothing to do with landing long or an overshoot, so the original assertion that additional displays indicating potential float at roundout" and overshoots, is irrelevant.

The colgan mishap had ample warning information, none of which was needed, and the reaction to that warning information was incorrect...all the way to impact.
This is about stalls, not about float, that's just a secondary aspect of a significantly better system.

Engineers are constantly looking to improve systems. A better system would have prevented the Colgan accident. Whether captain Renslow was qualified is a completely different topic.
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