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As someone who follows aviation and flew the Flight Simulator quite a bit when young, I don't quite understand how it all happened. The mechanics are clear, bu
by rich_sasha 3y ago
As someone who follows aviation and flew the Flight Simulator quite a bit when young, I don't quite understand how it all happened.
The mechanics are clear, but aren't pilots trained _ad nauseam_ precisely against this kind of events? It read like this was two panicking guys shouting at each other.
By contrast, listening to the recording of the Hudson River landing, it was stunning just how eerily calm the pilots was there. You hear them opening the manual and reading from it IIRC!
I don't mean it like, they're dumb cos I watched a YouTube video, I just don't understand. Especially since, as the article claims, pitot tubes all freezing at the same time is somewhat common.
- V99 3y agoI think it's just an "everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" situation. In an actual emergency some people react well and go back to their training, others panic & freeze up. And it's hard to predict, you do tons of emergency situations during all the flight training they would have gone through in sims and actual planes, but in the back of your mind you still know it's coming and not a real emergency when the instructor pulls the power out to simulate an engine failure or tapes up a piece of paper to block the airspeed indicator.
- davidktr 3y agoIf you have an hour to spare, I found this video by an experienced pilot extremely helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AGHEUxLME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AGHEUxLME
- rich_sasha 3y agoYou're right, a great video, thanks for the top tip. If nothing else, it provides complexity to the situation, which I felt was somewhat missing from the article.
- mplanchard 3y agoMy understanding is that this incident is one of the reasons why pilots are now trained ad-nauseum for such events, but that training for things like high-altitude stalls was not the norm previously