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NORAD F-15s intercept unresponsive TBM 700
A TBM-700 from New York to Florida has lost communication with air traffic control and overshot its destination by >250 miles. NORAD F-15s are investigating. (flightaware.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Well, I think we'll just beat the holy hell out of this one! Opinions are like aholes - everybodys...
When you back up and look at it a couple of things just jump out. Page through our monthly flying magazines and what is better than 50% of the ink used on? Stories about private pilot crashes. Then yoou look at another 25% or better is dedicated to "glass cockpits" and automatic gizmos and bling in new airplanes - or, for a few thousand you can add this to your airplane and it lets you think you're flying a 777! One problem-lots of time playing with electronic gadgets and not much time really flying. How much real "need" is there for all the bling. Seems like DC-3's actually flew passenger routes and they didn't even have iphones that doublled as a co-pilot. What I think make GA dangerous are monsters we've hatched.
My Dad flew DC-3's for United out of Midway before I was born. ADF was pretty much it. He is one heck of a pilot. Check out this air museum at Love Field in Dallas
http://www.flightmuseum.com/
The main exhibit Gallery is named after my Dad --Richard W. Cree
He is also a Wright Bros Master Pilot Award recipient.
He'll be 94 in about 8 weeks---He could take off and land his Citation up until about 4 years ago......
For his solo flight at age 14, he had to sit on a couple of telephone books to see out of the cockpit!!!!
http://www.flightmuseum.com/
The main exhibit Gallery is named after my Dad --Richard W. Cree
He is also a Wright Bros Master Pilot Award recipient.
He'll be 94 in about 8 weeks---He could take off and land his Citation up until about 4 years ago......
For his solo flight at age 14, he had to sit on a couple of telephone books to see out of the cockpit!!!!
A lot of what you say is true. I live in an Atlanta suburb neighborhood with at least a dozen Delta Captains , The Chief Pilot of Coca Cola (former Air Force One pilot---and yes, Hillary is a Witch with a Capital B) a retired Delta Captain and former SR-71 pilot----you get the idea that there are lots of very good aviators in my neighborhood.....
Unequivocally---, Norm, what you say is true-----MY friends all agree--the new generation of pilots are NOT learning the basics of stick and rudder---HOW TO FLY THE PLANE---- they just
learn how to fly computers and electronics. One of my DL 777 Capt friends told me he would never get on any Asian Airline...
And that was BEFORE the Asiana 777 at SFO . He says all they know how to do is fly computers
NOT the airplane.
Unequivocally---, Norm, what you say is true-----MY friends all agree--the new generation of pilots are NOT learning the basics of stick and rudder---HOW TO FLY THE PLANE---- they just
learn how to fly computers and electronics. One of my DL 777 Capt friends told me he would never get on any Asian Airline...
And that was BEFORE the Asiana 777 at SFO . He says all they know how to do is fly computers
NOT the airplane.
Thanks Dave - your neighborhood probably has some interesting conversation at cocktail parties. I concur with your comments, it's a shame to hear of so many seemingly dumb errors by pilots with hours in type, but then who WOULD fly into a thunderstorm? As for the guys across the pond - if you have 5 people on a modern airline flight deck, on approach with a plane who can land itself and you fall short of the threshold... scarey stuff! Cheers
It ain't just GA.