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I want a throttle!!! :devilgrin:
 
I've always said, every pilot should have a few hours of glider time as it increases ones ability to make safer dead stick landings if needed. :encouragement:
 
PAUL161 said:
I've always said, every pilot should have a few hours of glider time as it increases ones ability to make safer dead stick landings if needed. :encouragement:
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Fine unless the powered aircraft has the glide range of a house-brick. :eek:
 
Years ago there was story in Readers' Digest about a commecial pilot that had recently qualified as a glider pilot landing his airliner using the glider experience.
 
Trevor Triumph said:
Years ago there was story in Readers' Digest about a commecial pilot that had recently qualified as a glider pilot landing his airliner using the glider experience.
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Sully Sullenberger is the one that comes to mind immediately for me. US Airways flight 1549..... glided into the Hudson with no loss of life. Amazing!
 
A bit of 7500 perhaps but here goes:

a true story:


more recently an AirTransat Captain demonstrated an equally impressive feat of flying when he dead stick’d an A310 (IIRC) into The Azores after fuel starvation over the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, it is somewhat tempered by the fact that the crew (and airline) put themselves in the situation in the first place but you guys can google that one on your own if you like. Nonetheless, they only had one chance…
 
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charlie74 said:
A bit of 7500 perhaps but here goes:

a true story:


more recently an AirTransat Captain demonstrated an equally impressive feat of flying when he dead stick’d an A310 (IIRC) into The Azores after fuel starvation over the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, it is somewhat tempered by the fact that the crew (and airline) put themselves in the situation in the first place but you guys can google that one on your own if you like. Nonetheless, they only had one chance…
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This was the "Gimli Glider" as I have known it. A self inflicted situation indeed but a happy ending.
 
Yes, the Gimli Glider as it became known for years after it was repaired and returned to service. A happy ending certainly but self inflicted isn’t entirely fair as there were problems with fuel system computers on a new aircraft type to the airline and miscommunication’s with the Line Service people when it came to converting lbs to gallons to litres (or something like that…). A classic Swiss cheese model!
 
At 8 yrs old, I got to handle a stick on a Navy trainer biplane, then the owner (Navy pilot who works with my Dad) let me steer a 4 passenger Stearman. At 10, my uncle came in with his semi and let me drive it down the highway ( 2 lanes back then ), and at 12, my neighbor got me on his motorcycle. Was driving farm trucks and tractors by 14. Boats came later.
 
charlie74 said:
Yes, the Gimli Glider as it became known for years after it was repaired and returned to service. A happy ending certainly but self inflicted isn’t entirely fair as there were problems with fuel system computers on a new aircraft type to the airline and miscommunication’s with the Line Service people when it came to converting lbs to gallons to litres (or something like that…). A classic Swiss cheese model!
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IIRC it was the opposite - what they thought they were putting in in gallons, they were putting in in litres (1/4)
 
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