rickair7777

Somebodies gonna be an O-6!

But hooolleee sh....

I used to live across the way from that airport...unbelievable.

blastoff

Nah, someone is gonna get a Q-3 (Dequal for you non-USAF types).

Hacker15e

I thought this is why they have two pilots up there in the front office?

galaxy flyer

Q-3, if they're lucky. Lucky there was no damage. In today's "one mistake" AF, we'll see.

Hacker15e

Many blue moons ago, a C-5 trainer landed gear up at Travis. Three pilots and an eng, still happened. I think CinCMAC directed an FEB.

GF

DirectTo

Flew it out this afternoon:

Air Force cargo plane departs Davis Islands airport | TBO.com

Damn impressive airplane.

xjtguy

How many pilots, as well as instructors were in the front of that C5 that wrecked a few years back?

You ever heard the CVR on that?

Guess it can happen to ANYBODY.

FlyJSH

It can happen to anybody. I flew single pilot for eight years without any problems ( that included two engine failures in piston twins, a flame out and restart in a Caravan, a landing with no right main in a 421, lost comms in IFR, total electrical failure, and a bunch of piddly little things that went wrong). It wasn't until I flew with an FO on a clear blue and a million night that I managed to land at the wrong airport.


I'm not making excuses for them or me. But we are human. I am reminded of the old saying "There are two kind of pilots. Those who have and those who will."

Cut them a little slack.

Then maybe when you have one of those "those who have" days, others will be kind to you.

Or don't, and we can all enjoy peeing on you when you make a mistake.... because I don't care how good you are, given enough time, you will make a mistake.

74plb

I was a C5 FE in the reserves when that happened. I was working full time at Transient Alert driving a Follow Me truck. I told the Tower that a C5 landed gear up and he told me to maintain radio discipline. Guess he thought I was kidding. Not so much! Rumor back in the day was the GPWS switch was in inhibit. That was a long time ago though, they say your memory is the first thing to go. I don't remember what goes next

galaxy flyer

It was a no-flap landing on a proficiency trainer; checklist calls for GPWS to INHIBIT to silence the flap warning (it was an intentional no flap, remember). The gear horn was silenced on downwind, the visual was a bit tight and steep, so the throttles were never advanced far enough to reset the gear warning. SCREECH!

GF

74plb

Ah, that makes sense. I forgot about those no flap approaches. Thanks