Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Funny how pilots will always elevate themselves above the esteem of their own peers. I guess that does hand in hand with arrogance.
I have actually flown with captains who have said that Sully may have done a good job with the emergency, but he still hit the birds. Then they go off on this lecture about how preventing the bird strike in the first place would have been even better.
I must have missed the wildlife evasive maneuver lesson when I was training to be a pilot.
Why assume that those capts were being arrogant or putting themselves above a peer? They have a good point with respect to complacancy. The cvr backs up that he was enjoying the view of the Hudson and presumably the city. Same thing I've done on that departure many times. Where should my, and his, eyeballs be pointed though? I'm just saying. . .
Wasn't "see and avoid" drilled into your head all through flight training? Or maybe at your flight school it was "see and sightsee some more".
