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03-17-2015 | 03:15 PM
#7353
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined: Jun 2013
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From: gear slinger
I'm a March '14 hire and am not anywhere close to the required 1000 hrs SIC. I have a feeling there's quite a few others in the same boat.
03-17-2015 | 03:18 PM
#7354
Respek
Joined: Jul 2010
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We were taxiing near the approach end of 8 at PHX yesterday afternoon as a Mesa -900 landed. From the excessively high pitch attitude and flare height, I could tell it wasn't going to be pretty. I mean, sure, you have to flare the -900 way more than a -200 or even a -700, but this thing looked like it was a piston seaplane trying to get on the step.
Sure enough, it gave up the ghost maybe 10 feet off the deck and dropped in. Darn thing hit so hard, the wings flexed dramatically, a few billowing clouds of tire smoke swirled around, and it bounced back into the air, dropped a wing, and then pancaked back onto the ground. Easily the worst 121 landing I've ever seen. And in calm winds, too.
Don't they teach you guys how to land?
(opens popcorn)
*
*True story, though.
Sure enough, it gave up the ghost maybe 10 feet off the deck and dropped in. Darn thing hit so hard, the wings flexed dramatically, a few billowing clouds of tire smoke swirled around, and it bounced back into the air, dropped a wing, and then pancaked back onto the ground. Easily the worst 121 landing I've ever seen. And in calm winds, too.
Don't they teach you guys how to land?
(opens popcorn)
**True story, though.
Maybe you could go instruct for them with your massive amounts of CRJ experience?
03-17-2015 | 03:21 PM
#7355
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2014
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From: RJ right-seat warmer
03-17-2015 | 03:23 PM
#7356
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined: Jun 2013
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From: gear slinger
Sure enough, it gave up the ghost maybe 10 feet off the deck and dropped in. Darn thing hit so hard, the wings flexed dramatically, a few billowing clouds of tire smoke swirled around, and it bounced back into the air, dropped a wing, and then pancaked back onto the ground. Easily the worst 121 landing I've ever seen. And in calm winds, too.
Don't they teach you guys how to land?
Don't they teach you guys how to land?
#instapilot #lookatmenowbra #flare #icantland #crewlifeyo
03-17-2015 | 03:23 PM
#7357
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2014
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From: RJ right-seat warmer
(And I can't believe I even need to say this, but apparently this forum is for entertainment purposes only. While I haven't yet managed to achieve such a disastrous arrival as I witnessed yesterday, I'm sure I will one day. The -900 isn't easy to land, by any stretch of the imagination.
My Lord, I wasn't being serious and suggesting that Mesa pilots can't land airplanes. Apparently sarcasm is not well-detected on this forum...)
03-17-2015 | 03:31 PM
#7359
Respek
Joined: Jul 2010
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Great idea! I shall apply immediately.
(And I can't believe I even need to say this, but apparently this forum is for entertainment purposes only. While I haven't yet managed to achieve such a disastrous arrival as I witnessed yesterday, I'm sure I will one day. The -900 isn't easy to land, by any stretch of the imagination.
My Lord, I wasn't being serious and suggesting that Mesa pilots can't land airplanes. Apparently sarcasm is not well-detected on this forum...)
(And I can't believe I even need to say this, but apparently this forum is for entertainment purposes only. While I haven't yet managed to achieve such a disastrous arrival as I witnessed yesterday, I'm sure I will one day. The -900 isn't easy to land, by any stretch of the imagination.
My Lord, I wasn't being serious and suggesting that Mesa pilots can't land airplanes. Apparently sarcasm is not well-detected on this forum...)
03-17-2015 | 03:35 PM
#7360
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined: Jun 2013
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From: gear slinger
I find it amusing as well but it sounded more like a below the belt comment than sarcasm. All of us at some point have drilled it onto the ground pretty good, and if you haven't, well just wait until summer time in PHX when you hit those thermals right over the runway.
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