On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 01:29:56 +0200, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:16:25 +0100, > Major A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > 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. > > > > This reminds me of a flight in a British Airways 757 back in 1993, > > into London Heathrow, when the crew engaged full spoilers plus > > reversers at full throttle about 3nm from the airport... > > ..former Twin Otter pilots? On a flight between RNoAFB Andøy (EN??) > and Stokmarknes (EN??), the down wind leg was about 300-400, _maybe_ ..the mail server routing came up early, the EN??'s are ENAN and ENSK. > 500ft up and ditto to the right of the runway. From there, the rest > was one _smooth_ show off: First ease in full reverse, drop the nose > some 30-40 degrees and then everything else including the left wing, > all the way down, let the view complete the 180, (I was in seat 1B and > borrowed an headset from the PIC (dad's cousin), no cockpit door means > great view, the 2 other pax in the tail reading the news paper and > discussing fun flying and modelling may have been factors too ;-)), > ease in full forward power and ease back the stick to pull the runway > down into the view and ease onto the rather short final, greeeeaaaase > rubber onto the concrete, ...full reverse and then... > cut off fuel to make up for the reversing > expenditure or somesuch, turn off the runway and stop in front of the > terminal. The 2 guys in the back just folded their papers, unbuckled > and left, but a dozen came on board, so the 2 next landings wasn't as > fun. > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
