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That seems a bit unfair. Both are facing the same tense emergency situation; one while keeping an eye on the auto-pilot, the other while directing multiple inbo
by scoot 9y ago
That seems a bit unfair. Both are facing the same tense emergency situation; one while keeping an eye on the auto-pilot, the other while directing multiple inbound flights.
Perhaps I'm overthinking, but to my ear, it's the pilot who's bricking it.
- jessaustin 9y agoIt would seem better for the controller on a problem flight to be able to transfer all the rest of the flights to colleagues?
- awgy 9y agoI think you're right, and I believe this happened to a certain degree where he was vectoring folks out of his sector.
- awgy 9y agoI think you're dramatically oversimplifying things by saying that the pilot is just keeping an eye on the autopilot. There is a lot more going on in the cockpit in these situations than simply programming the autopilot. They're running checklists, troubleshooting, navigating, briefing the approach, communicating with the flight attendants, potentially also briefing passengers, potentially briefing their company/ops folks, etc. There's a lot to manage in these situations. Similarly, the controllers aren't just managing the traffic in their area. They're also coordinating with their management, other controllers that are managing neighboring sectors, emergency management folks, etc.