So you are on a small, twin engine plane and the pilot dies….
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Guy's a living legend. Should watch the whole video and then watch this...all the involved people got safety awards and there's plenty of funny dialogue from the principals on the dais.
Hmm, I have thousands of hours of flight time and learned something new today….
Fantastic job by all concerned...especially the guy forced into piloting the plane. Real grace under pressure on his part.
Thank God that he had at least some experience, however limited and however long before, in flying a small plane. I think that was crucial in getting him and his family on the ground safely.
By the way, the narrator there is "Hoover," a former military pilot who does a series called Pilot Debrief where he dissects airplane mishaps...usually smaller aircraft flown by private pilots. The majority of his presentations do not end as happily as this one did.
That was awesome! Doug is one cool dude. Those plaques he gave are priceless!
Did you see the movie?
Amazing he got back into flying and became a commercial pilot.
Thanks for posting .
A guy I worked with asked me if I wanted to fly down to the Bobby Bowden vs Joe Paterno Blockbuster Bowl. He had a friend who was a corporate pilot, the plane and tickets for the three of us. Who wouldn’t? So when we climb in the plane, similar to this one, I’m sitting in the number two seat next to the pilot and off we go to Ft Lauderdale. It takes about a minute for me to realize if anything happens to this guy we are all going to die. I start asking a lot of questions. A lot of questions! After a while the pilot says you want to give it a try?
It was a great experience. Guys were surfing on New Year’s Eve. Great time even though Penn State lost. I always thought it would be pretty cool to learn to fly. But after watching this video it’s pretty clear that real life is not like a Hart to Hart episode. A man has to know his limitations as Clint Eastwood would say.
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Unaware. Only saw the YT stuff. Would be one hell of a movie.
My uncle was a pilot. When my brother and I were teenagers, he once took us on a business trip in his plane from Scranton to Boston. To our (nervous) amazement, he gave each of us a 15-minute turn flying the plane.
My recollection is that it wasn't too complicated. There's this artificial horizon thing on the instrument display, and the idea is to keep the aircraft level with that. Turns like a car. Pull back on the yoke to go up. Push forward to go down. Of course he was sitting right next to us the whole time. Kind of wild really.
A few years later my brother got instruction in an attempt to get his own pilot's license. After completing the course with the instructor, he went out on his first solo flight from a local airport in NEPA. Somehow he got disoriented and couldn't find the airfield to land the plane. Finally, after wandering all over sky, he did manage to locate it and landed safely...and that ended his flying career. Came home looking like he'd seen a ghost.
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