One boy's opinion of pilots
Aug 2, 2020 17:08:45 #
Aug 2, 2020 17:25:07 #
In my business career, I was a hgih-mileage flyer on the old US Air and all its successors. Some of my flights must have been piloted by graduates from this youngster's flying school.
Aug 2, 2020 17:33:05 #
Barry, that article was quite funny. Little do they know at that age.
--Bob
--Bob
Huey Driver wrote:
One boy's opinion of pilots
Aug 2, 2020 18:03:34 #
DeanS wrote:
In my business career, I was a hgih-mileage flyer on the old US Air and all its successors. Some of my flights must have been piloted by graduates from this youngster's flying school.
A hgih-mileage flyer? Pilots also need to know how to spell...😂😂
Aug 2, 2020 18:08:09 #
Aug 2, 2020 18:38:39 #
Julian wrote:
A hgih-mileage flyer? Pilots also need to know how to spell...😂😂
Ah, now there's a problem I have to this day. When typing I misspell words I know how to spell and when I read it back they look ok. Probably something to do with the fact I never enjoyed reading. Wish I did.
Aug 2, 2020 19:05:47 #
Julian wrote:
A hgih-mileage flyer? Pilots also need to know how to spell...😂😂
Not wrothy of a repsonse, but I wlli just for the hlle of ti.
Aug 2, 2020 19:35:47 #
It was a standing joke among those of us who flew regularly for business that we could tell the pilot’s background from the landing. If it was soft and gentle, we would look at each other and nod “Air Force”, and if it was a solid, with a little force, we would look at each other knowingly and say “Navy”. (It’s a joke guys, no offense intended to either service).
Aug 2, 2020 20:42:25 #
Aug 2, 2020 20:59:20 #
TriX wrote:
It was a standing joke among those of us who flew regularly for business that we could tell the pilot’s background from the landing. If it was soft and gentle, we would look at each other and nod “Air Force”, and if it was a solid, with a little force, we would look at each other knowingly and say “Navy”. (It’s a joke guys, no offense intended to either service).
The smoothest landing I can recall, among a few thousand, was a female captain at the wheel. Touch down was barely noticeable.
Aug 3, 2020 01:47:55 #
TBPJr
Loc: South Carolina
TriX wrote:
It was a standing joke among those of us who flew regularly for business that we could tell the pilot’s background from the landing. If it was soft and gentle, we would look at each other and nod “Air Force”, and if it was a solid, with a little force, we would look at each other knowingly and say “Navy”. (It’s a joke guys, no offense intended to either service).
That's no joke--just look at the struts on Air Force aircraft and those on Navy birds. I couldn't find pictures of current (F-35) planes, but the struts on Navy F-4s were four times the size of those on AF F-4s (even as that dates me--a lot). Navy pilots were taught to drive the plane down at a steady rate of descent to plant onto a carrier; we taught a flare and a gentler touchdown in the Air Force.
Aug 3, 2020 06:01:35 #
TBPJr wrote:
That's no joke--just look at the struts on Air Force aircraft and those on Navy birds. I couldn't find pictures of current (F-35) planes, but the struts on Navy F-4s were four times the size of those on AF F-4s (even as that dates me--a lot). Navy pilots were taught to drive the plane down at a steady rate of descent to plant onto a carrier; we taught a flare and a gentler touchdown in the Air Force.
I guess airfields don't roll about like carriers.
Aug 3, 2020 06:16:50 #
Canonuser
Loc: UK and South Africa
Huey Driver wrote:
One boy's opinion of pilots
I’ve just forwarded this to my grandson.
When they get to do it during the current pandemic, he is a pilot with the European travel company TUI and his wife pilots Airbuses for British Airways.
I can’t wait to tell them what an easy job being a pilot really is.
Aug 3, 2020 06:16:57 #
Just wondering about the reality of this as there isn't a Jefferson Grade school in Beaufort, SC.
Aug 3, 2020 06:32:21 #
Canonuser
Loc: UK and South Africa
[quote=DeanS]The smoothest landing I can recall, among a few thousand, was a female captain at the wheel. Touch down was barely noticeable.[/
Both my Grandson and his wife who are pilots disagreed with my remarks about smooth landings which I thought were good.
They both said putting the aircraft down firmly was the safe way to go and how they are trained.
My grandson said that a recent 737 crash occurred when the pilot ‘greased’ the plane down onto a wet runway and then aquaplaned off it. The aircraft tyres had not touched the runway with sufficient force to break through the water and adhere to the tarmac.
So always expect much firmer landings when runways are wet.
I certainly didn’t know that.
Both my Grandson and his wife who are pilots disagreed with my remarks about smooth landings which I thought were good.
They both said putting the aircraft down firmly was the safe way to go and how they are trained.
My grandson said that a recent 737 crash occurred when the pilot ‘greased’ the plane down onto a wet runway and then aquaplaned off it. The aircraft tyres had not touched the runway with sufficient force to break through the water and adhere to the tarmac.
So always expect much firmer landings when runways are wet.
I certainly didn’t know that.
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