Fear of Flying dude
11-05-2010 | 11:08 AM
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Fear of Flying dude
So what's the deal with this guy? United Capt Tom Bunn at www.fearofflyingmessageboard.com
"It has been years since I let my kids fly on JetBlue. I would much rather pay more for their tickets and have them fly American to places they can't go on UAL passes than to put them on JetBlue. My conscious would not allow it. A crash can happen on any airline, but if they got on Blue or Allegiant and crashed, I would know that I knew better and "cheaped out". And if they got on American and crashed, I would know I chose the best I could have chosen."
"In general, if you are going to fly on a regional airline, try to get on a jet, because by the time the pilots move up to the jets, they have experience. The turbo props are easy to fly, so it usually works out for inexperienced pilots to fly them, but occasionally an accident happens nevertheless."
"Though non-union pilots are only occasionally fired for taking a position on safety, those occasional firing make any non-union captain think twice about a safety decision. Non-union airlines in the above list are Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America."
"the Airman Information Manual tells how to do it. As I said, Sullenberger screwed up. He should have thought ahead to the fact that at maximum performance, there would be no performance left to flare with. He didn't."
"If Sullenberger had been able at that moment over opt out of the law, it would have let him to flare, the computers got in the way, and made it impossible for Sullenberger to flare”
"I'm sure that any REAL pilot who has not become soft flying the plastic plane could do better in their own plane, and might even be able to jump into the A320 sim and do better on the first shot. It really is not difficult. When you hear the radio altimeter call out twenty feet, you break the glide just slightly and when it calls out ten, you break it a bit more so as to be descending at about 100 to 150 fpm. Of course you have to think ahead enough to carry extra as the Airman's Information Manual directs."
"Real pilots don't need the protections the Airbus offers as no professional pilot would do the things fly-by-wire prevents in the first place. In other words, the fly-by-wire law protects against things a professional pilot doesn't need protection against. Maybe some idiot does, but such idiots don't get to be pilots at REAL airlines."
"In a conventional airplane, the pilot would have been forced to compute the proper speed, and that speed would have provided ample cushion for flaring the plane. But, on the other hand, if Sullenberger had himself computed the speed and recognized that he needed to include a cushion for flaring the plane, things would have still worked out."
"All cargo on flights that carry passengers is inspected."
The more I read the more I sense that Capt Tom is scaring people so he can sell them snake oil.
"It has been years since I let my kids fly on JetBlue. I would much rather pay more for their tickets and have them fly American to places they can't go on UAL passes than to put them on JetBlue. My conscious would not allow it. A crash can happen on any airline, but if they got on Blue or Allegiant and crashed, I would know that I knew better and "cheaped out". And if they got on American and crashed, I would know I chose the best I could have chosen."
"In general, if you are going to fly on a regional airline, try to get on a jet, because by the time the pilots move up to the jets, they have experience. The turbo props are easy to fly, so it usually works out for inexperienced pilots to fly them, but occasionally an accident happens nevertheless."
"Though non-union pilots are only occasionally fired for taking a position on safety, those occasional firing make any non-union captain think twice about a safety decision. Non-union airlines in the above list are Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America."
"the Airman Information Manual tells how to do it. As I said, Sullenberger screwed up. He should have thought ahead to the fact that at maximum performance, there would be no performance left to flare with. He didn't."
"If Sullenberger had been able at that moment over opt out of the law, it would have let him to flare, the computers got in the way, and made it impossible for Sullenberger to flare”
"I'm sure that any REAL pilot who has not become soft flying the plastic plane could do better in their own plane, and might even be able to jump into the A320 sim and do better on the first shot. It really is not difficult. When you hear the radio altimeter call out twenty feet, you break the glide just slightly and when it calls out ten, you break it a bit more so as to be descending at about 100 to 150 fpm. Of course you have to think ahead enough to carry extra as the Airman's Information Manual directs."
"Real pilots don't need the protections the Airbus offers as no professional pilot would do the things fly-by-wire prevents in the first place. In other words, the fly-by-wire law protects against things a professional pilot doesn't need protection against. Maybe some idiot does, but such idiots don't get to be pilots at REAL airlines."
"In a conventional airplane, the pilot would have been forced to compute the proper speed, and that speed would have provided ample cushion for flaring the plane. But, on the other hand, if Sullenberger had himself computed the speed and recognized that he needed to include a cushion for flaring the plane, things would have still worked out."
"All cargo on flights that carry passengers is inspected."
The more I read the more I sense that Capt Tom is scaring people so he can sell them snake oil.
11-05-2010 | 11:34 AM
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A CAL Pilot in the CLE CP's Office is doing something 'like' this....or maybe part of the same "tribe" (no pun intended). There was/is a piece written on this guy in this months edition of CAL's inflight magazine.
11-05-2010 | 02:33 PM
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11-05-2010 | 07:14 PM
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[QUOTE=IrishTiger;896861]Wow.... now there's some hocus pocus if I've ever seen any! What a load of crap!
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I like this: "As testimony to the DC-10, this 1990 upgrade has posted 3.7 million hours per accident and none in the past ten years."
Hmmmm... I wonder where they are doing their research?
Also, I like how the Tu-134 is safer than the DC-9 or 737-200....
Safest Airliners and Airline Safety - Fear of Flying - SOAR
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I like this: "As testimony to the DC-10, this 1990 upgrade has posted 3.7 million hours per accident and none in the past ten years."
Hmmmm... I wonder where they are doing their research?
Also, I like how the Tu-134 is safer than the DC-9 or 737-200....
Safest Airliners and Airline Safety - Fear of Flying - SOAR
11-05-2010 | 07:38 PM
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