Yeah, airspeed and altitude, that's the ticket. You run out of either
one and you are in a world of hurt. You got radar altimeters, baro
altimeters, GPS altimeters, and, oh yeah, look out the window. And the
airplane feeling reeeeeeaaaallll sluggish because it is flying too slow
and wallowing down to the water? And the runway not coming up where it
should be (oh look the runway is wayyyyyyy up there when it should be
right there!).
I have never flown a 777, but I am sure it is not wildly different from
those Cherokees I used to fly, especially when it comes to figuring out
where and how you want to plant it on the ground, and keeping your stick
and throttle sorta in sync to get you where you want to go.
--R
On 7/8/13 11:04 AM, WILTON wrote:
Just saying they didn't HAFTA have it for seemingly such a simple
approach with runway in sight from many miles out. 'Understood they
were cleared for visual approach. Were they depending on ILS or some
other system, anyway, and allowing aircraft to take certain steps
automatically without any
monitoring? Cockpit was evidently filled with men of MANY hours of
experience. Couldn't at least ONE of 'em have monitored airspeed and
altitude? How much experience does it take to read airspeed and
altitude? Not much.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch Haley" <m...@voyager.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Cause of Frisco crash: Poor piloting plus no glide
path?
Yeah, how many WEEKS is is OK to leave something like that unfixed
at an oceanfront international airport with SFO's traffic volume?
Mitch.
What do you expect form a goobermnt that can't do anything it is
supposed to (and required to) do (at great expense), but does all
kinds of nefarious stuff it is prohibited from doing at great expense?
WILTON wrote:
> I think the ILS is irrelevant - weren't they cleared for visual
approach
> with runway visible from many miles out?
>
> Wilton
Loren:
Is SFO run by the same people that run BART?
Wilton:
Are you saying that visual is preferred and they wouldn't have used
ILS if available, or are you saying that a pilot with a non-zero
chance of blowing that particular visual landing has no business
holding 300 lives in his hands?
Mitch.
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