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Distracted by Cellphone, Airbus Captain Forgets Landing Gear
An Airbus A320 captain is in hot water after investigators found he was forced to abort a landing below 500 feet after preoccupation with his cell phone caused him to forget to deploy the landing gear. (www.flyingmag.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why the cell phones are allowed inside the cockpit? If at all the cell phones may be hidden in side their brief cases but under no circumastances be allowed to be used while flying?
In the US they are not allowed too... But look in the mirror, do you ever do something that you are not supposed to do.... and hope you don't get caught.... They just got caught.
How do you forget landing gear duh
Hmmm! Air France decided (Sept. 24, 2012) to equiped the 4,100 pilots with iPad. But on the ground use.
Motor vehicle departments and state governments are beginning to understand that "distracted" driving is very much like DUI. There is no way to enforce the texting laws as passed since they allow using other cell phone functions like GPS. A cop can't tell the difference unless he sees your thumbs moving over the buttons.
It wasn't that long ago that any pilot viewed flying the airplane a his first and only responsibility. Not so today. We're well past the days of flying a DC-3 when the only distraction was cockpit clutter, and until we all get back to that state of mind an incident is a constant probability. In most cases there is a second head flying an airplane, but don't depend on that.
It wasn't that long ago that any pilot viewed flying the airplane a his first and only responsibility. Not so today. We're well past the days of flying a DC-3 when the only distraction was cockpit clutter, and until we all get back to that state of mind an incident is a constant probability. In most cases there is a second head flying an airplane, but don't depend on that.
Unfortunately my friend, you are so correct. Sad part is, you would think that even a simple thing like the "STERILE COCKPIT RULE" would take care of such trash but apparently it gets shoved aside at times. That said, we only hear about the bad apples, and not the thousands of others that do it right everyday. It's stuff such as this that should make us all realize that there are reasons for such rules. Most are there because of something that happened in the past that didn't have a good ending.
You know Cap. I think up through my 40s I might have tried to get it all done. I don't think it was until I was about 45 that I realized the only thing that mattered was what I was doing and it had to be right. Cell phones were these huge things in cars and trucks that were displacing 2 way radios but were so expensive you thought about who you gave the number to. Now you can't find someone without a cell phone the size of a pack of Camels to their ear who you can ask a question of without a scowl. They're only paying half attention to their phone conversation and less to what they are doing with their hands and feet.What's worse, their supervisors expect the phone to be answered when they call. I was watching a school bus driver texting behind me the other day, praying she would see the light if it turned red and not drive through me. The cell phone feeds an 'it's good enough' attitude folks have today. There are special people I have mostly found in the transportation field who take special care and assume the huge responsibility of heavy metal movements, whether it's an 80,000 lb truck, a 50 passenger bus or a 200 passenger flying machine. Most of the "operators" do a good and responsible job.
That 2nd line is what so many youngsters are forgetting today, WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW. The attitude seems to be ambidextrous and bulletproof.Folks forget that driving or operating a vehichle of any kind is a task in itself and that it normally takes a fair amount of skill to get from point A to B rather than an afterthought. We could go on all day about such as this, but the cops see the results daily, which is why there is such an outcry against it. AND IT COULD WELL HAVE HAPPENED HERE, EVEN WITH 2 PEOPLE IN THE COCKPIT and a planeload of PAX.
A firmed. The question now age old 'Why do they waste youth on the young ' springs to mind with you words and anecdotes. Younguns have seen themselves as bullet proof for centuries. It's probably a good thing sometimes, allowing them to take chances until they learn from experience. Problems start when a heavy piece of machinery gets added to the mix. I drove my share of racing cars, kept up with the best on the interstates and even rolled an airplane on departure many moons ago, but never with a phone stuck to my ear. Flying PAX reduced my turns to 3 minutes. There was always someone on board who was nervous about flying. And I was never so good and mistake free that I could afford a distraction like a computer game or a phone call that could wait 20 minutes. But then I never was flown by an airplane until recently either. Auto pilot was something quite different, little more than wing leveling and altitude control.
They call it progress.lol
So this is progress :-)