The Rookie Pilot
Oct 13, 2021 08:45:32 #
wrangler5 wrote:
The tower would sometimes ask us to land long so we could get off the active and into our parking area sooner, especially if there was an SR-71 inbound behind us.
An SR-71 go-around would be something to see!
Oct 13, 2021 13:08:31 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
wrangler5 wrote:
I learned to fly at a USAF Aero Club on a SAC base... (show quote)
Well, its always been said in the flying community, there are three things of no use to a pilot, the fuel they left on the ground, the altitude above them and the runway behind them.
I was a flight instructor for a number of years and when it came to landing lights, I would tell students that if flying at night and you have an engine out, keep the landing light turned off until you are about 50ft off the ground on your final phase of landing. Only then should they turn on the landing light, if they don't like what they see, just turn off the landing light.
Oct 13, 2021 14:12:53 #
SteveR wrote:
I've watched the full series of Airplane Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel. As funny as this joke is, it's not that far from the truth!!
yeh, there was the guy that put a b52 fill of nukes down @ Bradley, (Missed Westover), he is now a senator from California.
Oct 15, 2021 13:28:23 #
BrHawkeye wrote:
An SR-71 go-around would be something to see!
I cant find it , but there was a story about a sr71 :, asked to buzz the area, he stalled it at about 200 feet and just barely recovered.. wish I could find it though, he said the people who buzzed the area for were very impressed, had no idea how close he came to crashing... the (ret) pilot wrote it up..., was a two seater, the other pilot said that he should try to keep the pointy end forward...
Oct 16, 2021 12:29:38 #
My instructor demonstrated a short-field landing by putting the cessna 150 down across the runway. It does work, but scary as hell!
Oct 16, 2021 13:34:41 #
I originally heard the short field landing as a Polak joke, mebbe 30 years ago, still good tho, similar was the one about the windshield wipers on the inside of the windows...
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