"Veteran ERAU pilot" embarrasses herself onTV
05-17-2018, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by fadec
Guys relax. ABC is a sexist news organization who picked her specifically to represent female pilots. If you're a privileged male she doesn't even represent you.
05-17-2018, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by captjns
Be that as it may... it was conduct unbecoming of an individual, purporting to be a professional pilot, in order to get their 15 minutes of fame. Just my 2 rupees.
05-17-2018, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by fadec
Guys relax. ABC is a sexist news organization who picked her specifically to represent female pilots. If you're a privileged male she doesn't even represent you.
05-17-2018, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
It was a CRJ 200, and she sucked. She finally stowed the boards after stalling a few times. 100 feet is too high for idle even in a 200, if your energy state is that jacked you need to go around. But she probably had the red screen disabled.
Must be a reason she works for riddle. Tami Jo probably threw up a little bit.
Must be a reason she works for riddle. Tami Jo probably threw up a little bit.
But yes she was poorly rehearsed, scary part is this sim video is probably what half or more real life flights would look like if it happened unsuspectingly.
05-17-2018, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by AboveMins
What's with her slamming boards on touchdown? I don't recall losing ground lift dump on the CRJ when single engine. Granted, it's been like 15 years since I've touched one, so my CRJ-fu is weak.
Her PM was a reporter, so she was basically single pilot in a crewd airplane during an actual emergency, not a LOFT trivial item. She also likely never worked for a regional and therefore never went through IOE on the CRJ.
Lot of guys upset on here how well someone handles an emergency single pilot in a plane their not line standard on, and likely have never flown in real life.
Now her judgment to accept the assignment for 20/20 knowing these things speaks far more than a rusty performance.
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05-17-2018, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by All In
05-17-2018, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Happyflyer
Lot of guys upset on here how well someone handles an emergency single pilot in a plane their not line standard on, and likely have never flown in real life.
The embarrassing thing is Embry Riddle could have prevented this by giving her a couple hours in the sim prior to ABC showing up.
05-18-2018, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
The embarrassing thing is Embry Riddle could have prevented this by giving her a couple hours in the sim prior to ABC showing up.
05-18-2018, 05:02 AM
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This story says more about the news being offered to the viewers than it does about the pilot or ERAU. As professional pilots this story is right in our wheel house and we can see how effing stupid the entire thing is. Almost all the news is a variation of this story, but we aren't experts in those fields so we can't call them out on it. Just remember that when you get all fired up over XXX story == it's probably a load of BS.
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