Leslie Chow

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Senior Skipper

Sully had an engine running?! Where have I been? I thought it was a dual flameout?

gooddeal

Indeed. Hopefully Chief Wiggum can get first transmission in next emergency

80ktsClamp

He got the APU running as soon as they hit the birds, dummy. That sharp reaction preserved normal power to the plane.

Upset about the 1500 hour rule, I'm guessing?

Piklepausepull

Speaking of farts....

https://youtu.be/PSKQ3ZNQ_O8

aewanabe

I'm guessing you don't read NTSB reports. It was pretty well established there were zero good motors.

2StgTurbine

You (and a few other regional lifers) are so far off the mark about Sully. He is not insulting regional pilots personally. He is simply commenting that the regional system lags behind the major carriers when it comes to their safety departments. He does not say that all regional pilots are bad pilots, but that it is much easier for a bad pilot to get on with a regional than a major carrier. Do you think the training department of Great Lakes is on par with United? Neither does Sully. Sure, you might work at a regional with the best training department (insert today's greatest regional), but there are many more smaller carriers who are simply trying to survive that don't have the resources the provide great training. Right now regionals are hiring anyone whose logbook has 1500 hours and some are upgrading them as soon as they reach insurance minimums. They don't have the time to wait for these new captains to experience a winter deicing and will count on a 10 minute PowerPoint slide taking the place of actual experience.

rvr1800

Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

Justdoinmyjob

Actually had some jackalope yell at the captain the other day around 40W. He was talking to the C-17 we were passing on 123.45 and someone started yelling, "This is 123.45. If you wanna talk, go find an air to air frequency." Hand to God.

sulkair

They should set up 1000 sensors across the lower 48. As soon as someone transmits on guard it immediately triangulates the exact position. Correlate the data to Flight-aware and bam, you have your culprit dead to rights. {evil laugh}

I usually could care less about stuff like this, but I agree that if the purpose for 121.5 is for emergencies, then it should be preserved for only that.

You'd certainly have your butt in a sling if you did this stuff on Approach Control, or Center, and it could be determined that it was you.

I don't monitor guard, but if you're telling me it's as annoying as SeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeYA! Then I'm on GuppyPuppy's side