Major A writes: > Reminds me of my flight into Bologna last year in one of go's (now > Easyjet) latest 737-300s -- there was a period of about 10 minutes > when we never flew straight. But they eventually managed to get the > thing aligned, and we did fly the last couple miles in a straight > line... Mind you, it's not normal on a passenger flight to see the lit > runway in its full glory head-on from a passenger window, but that > time we did...
My wife and I were flying Vangaurd airlines (now defunct?) into Kansas city (on a 737) a couple years ago and on *very short* final the pilot made us all temporarily weightless to get back down on the glide slope quickly. Recent x-rays show that my wife's fingernails are still embeded into the bone of my left forearm. It was a windy day, but not *that* windy. > > There's an old joke that goes something like this: > > > > Aeroflot Pilot: "My, these American runways are VERY short!" > > CoPilot: "Yes, but look how incredibly WIDE they are!" > > "Yuri, what do you think, is that the phone box marked on the map? > Damn, a cloud has just got in the way..." -- Aeroflot navigator on > board a Tu-134... or Il-76 for that matter! Last thing on the cockpit voice recorder: Captain: oh look, my gyro has tumbled. CoPilot: look, my gyro has tumbled too. Or the ever popular: "Hey, watch this!" Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
