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02-03-2007, 08:25 AM
#12
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Originally Posted by LAfrequentflyer
What makes you think it was experience and judgement that saved the day?
Maybe he just guessed right and that made all the difference.
No...I don't buy the experience / judgement thing at all...We make the right decision and it works out. Sometimes we make the wrong one and it still works out.
-LAFF
Maybe he just guessed right and that made all the difference.
No...I don't buy the experience / judgement thing at all...We make the right decision and it works out. Sometimes we make the wrong one and it still works out.
-LAFF
02-03-2007, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Slice
How many hours do you have? LAFF, you're so green, you don't even know how much you don't know yet...
All is well however, attending ATP will save the day.
All is well however, attending ATP will save the day.
Pray tell...How will attending ATP save the day?
-LAFF
02-03-2007, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Typhoonpilot
This thread is to show that old pilots can also save the day.
02-03-2007, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 727C47
you are kidding, right ? I mean you can't be serious....
I saw the made for tv movie...You sure the fact Moses was flying isn't the reason some survived that day?
Both Captains guessed correctly and lived to talk about it...Nothing more / less to it.
-LAFF
02-03-2007, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by LAfrequentflyer
No I'm not kidding.
I saw the made for tv movie...You sure the fact Moses was flying isn't the reason some survived that day?
Both Captains guessed correctly and lived to talk about it...Nothing more / less to it.
-LAFF
I saw the made for tv movie...You sure the fact Moses was flying isn't the reason some survived that day?
Both Captains guessed correctly and lived to talk about it...Nothing more / less to it.
-LAFF
02-03-2007, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by fireman0174
Yea, you are right. He took out a coin and flipped it to make his decision.
I hope I'm never on a sick airplane with you at the controls. Good grief.
I hope I'm never on a sick airplane with you at the controls. Good grief.
02-03-2007, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by wild4theuniform
LORD HAVE MERCY!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry over that comment!!!
Let me get you another drink and help you out of my clothes...
-LAFF
02-03-2007, 08:35 AM
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I agree with Typhoonpilot completely. Although there are examples that show different ways, e.g. the KLM/Pan Am crash in Tenrife. The KLM (I think his name was Van Saanten or so...) captain was about to retire and was one of the causes for the crash. Of course not the only one.
As a little kid I have always read about Al Haynes and Dave Cronin. I had read the CVR transcripts of United 232 and Haynes impressed me because he was calm, and still humorous. Cpt. Haynes and Cpt. Cronin are heros, no question.
As a little kid I have always read about Al Haynes and Dave Cronin. I had read the CVR transcripts of United 232 and Haynes impressed me because he was calm, and still humorous. Cpt. Haynes and Cpt. Cronin are heros, no question.
02-03-2007, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Andy
Statistically, the accident rate per 100,000 hours flown for pilots starts increasing after age 55. We can pull out single examples to support either side of the argument, but the accident rate does increase after 55.
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