Could A Passenger Land An Airplane
05-29-2019, 06:53 AM
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Could A Passenger Land An Airplane
https://thepointsguy.com/news/could-...d-an-airplane/
Putting aside the question of why I wasted a few minutes of valuable personal time to read this article, I think that, yeah, I probably could land a 777 if I had to.
And I have the winning ticket to Powerball.
Putting aside the question of why I wasted a few minutes of valuable personal time to read this article, I think that, yeah, I probably could land a 777 if I had to.
And I have the winning ticket to Powerball.
05-29-2019, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by vagabond
https://thepointsguy.com/news/could-...d-an-airplane/
Putting aside the question of why I wasted a few minutes of valuable personal time to read this article, I think that, yeah, I probably could land a 777 if I had to.
And I have the winning ticket to Powerball.
Putting aside the question of why I wasted a few minutes of valuable personal time to read this article, I think that, yeah, I probably could land a 777 if I had to.
And I have the winning ticket to Powerball.
That is also the bad news.
05-29-2019, 07:55 AM
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Two suggestions to any non pilot passenger finding themself in that situation:
Edwards AFB dry lake bed in California
Northrup Strip at White Sands missile range New Mexico
A couple of miles of overrun in either direction is never a bad thing.
And, oh, stay away from Groom Lake in Nevada. No sense surviving the landing if you are going to be abducted by aliens anyway...
There you go, some of that bad advice.
Edwards AFB dry lake bed in California
Northrup Strip at White Sands missile range New Mexico
A couple of miles of overrun in either direction is never a bad thing.
And, oh, stay away from Groom Lake in Nevada. No sense surviving the landing if you are going to be abducted by aliens anyway...
There you go, some of that bad advice.
05-29-2019, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
Edwards AFB dry lake bed in California
Northrup Strip at White Sands missile range New Mexico
A couple of miles of overrun in either direction is never a bad thing.
Northrup Strip at White Sands missile range New Mexico
A couple of miles of overrun in either direction is never a bad thing.
05-29-2019, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
I would attempt a ditching as the first choice.
The one problem common to both types of landing is judging your HAT without a radar altimeter, and a chase plane can help here.
05-29-2019, 04:01 PM
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Apart from human factors so as sheer panic I’m sure they could be talked into pushing buttons for an auto land.
From my neck of the woods:
https://youtu.be/JPWRrICxrKU
Although he did have his SEL no ME
From my neck of the woods:
https://youtu.be/JPWRrICxrKU
Although he did have his SEL no ME
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