Posted on 12/02/2010 4:36:48 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
Edited on 12/02/2010 5:33:19 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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The other posters here are right, there is something fishy. This would seem to be a fundamental, like flight-school 101, type thing. I'm not even a pilot but let me take a wild guess at a simple procedure to recover: retard the throttles so as not to over-speed the engines, and gradually pull back on the column so as not to over-stress the airframe by pulling too many Gs...
I mean, come on, the guy is a co-pilot, he is supposed to know what the basic flight controls are, right? This is a cover-up for something.
>I am no pilot but I watch TV and everyone knows when the plane is headed down, you pull back on the stick.
Assuming you’re not flying inverted. Best rule of thumb is to move the stick away from
the ground that is approaching. Even works for the rudder when in a knife edge.
The last part of training course is recovery from dive and landing, neither are normally of great importance at Allah School of Flight.
Mike
“The aviation agency report concluded that the 25-year-old co-pilot had not been trained in the specific scenario the jet encountered and “probably had no clue to tackle this kind of emergency.””
Like I really believe that. Previous report had him pushing hard on the yoke as the captain pulled back on his.
Co-Pilot. Pilot saved the plane.
ML/NJ
Thos happened years ago when Pilot was letting Stew sit on his lap and drive.
barbra ann
The Indian airlines are expanding so rapidly from a very low base, that they are putting barely qualified pilots in the seats. They don’t have enough ex-military pilots and..if memory serves..Indian Airlines had about 30 domestic jets 10 years ago.
Muslim’s are a minority in India and are more unlikely to get these kinds of jobs...
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