Scudrunners

We are shit compared to the Kings of Aviation.

We are scum, we know nothing, we can do nothing.

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Just ask Arlo or Wayne or Laird about me.  I'm just
not a very good pilot, compared to a TC Inspector.

Ask any of the Big Bellies at Tower C or 4900 Yonge -
they will tell you I know nothing about aviation,
compared to them.

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-repor ... 0h0007.pdf

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A very long way to say "they forgot to put the gear down, crashed, got back into the air, and went on a merry flight over downtown Ottawa".


Good learning experience?

We all make mistakes.  Yeah, they bounced a King Air,
gear up, off the runway at Gatineau.

But what really grinds my gears is that they didn't
immediately land at Gatineau, like any sane pilot.

Incredibly, in a severely damaged aircraft, TC chose
to fly over populated Ottawa.  This tale could easily
have had a very different ending, one that the TSB
chose to not mention.

No sane pilot embarks on a cross-country flight over
a populated area in what they know to be a severely
damaged aircraft.

That's careless and reckless, and perhaps criminal.

But because they are the Kings of Aviation, it's ok.

Revolting.

We are scum, compared to them, remember.

While doing circuits in a T-Bird years ago, a friend of mine landed wheels-up.  When asked by the Base Commander at the bar that night:  "What happened?", my friend went right to the heart of the problem which shortened the Investigation considerably:  "I guess I forgot to put the wheels down"

Regardless of the number of prompts in a checklist, just before I flash across the button, there is a final visual check of the gear indicators.  I imagine I'm not alone...

J

Everyone makes mistakes.  Any pilot that
tells you he doesn't make mistakes is either
a liar, or doesn't fly.

It how you deal with your mistakes, and other
difficult situations, that matters.

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While doing circuits in a T-Bird years ago, a friend of mine landed wheels-up.  When asked by the Base Commander at the bar that night:  "What happened?", my friend went right to the heart of the problem which shortened the Investigation considerably:  "I guess I forgot to put the wheels down"

Regardless of the number of prompts in a checklist, just before I flash across the button, there is a final visual check of the gear indicators.  I imagine I'm not alone...

J
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Yup usually at my DH or Visual Callout I glance over to confirm the 3 green are still indicating.

At least in the airplanes I fly, the gear makes a
big difference to the drag.

If I forget to put the gear down, and I'm on final
with the throttle pulled all the way back desperately
trying to get the speed down ... guess what I forgot?

The horn should really come on, but ...

Not that I've ever done that (ahem).  A "friend"
told me about that.  That sound plausible?

I'm a really big fan of having some known, nominal
configurations of aircraft that you fly, for approach. 

Just a few.  This isn't hard.

You set the flaps to X, the gear to Y, the power to Z,
you should see airspeed A and descent rate B.

If you don't, there is something horribly wrong.  You
are not flying the same airplane.  Did you climb in
the wrong one?

A great amount of my flying was in amphibious aircraft so making sure the gear was down for landing would not have worked to well for a water landing.


My last check before every landing was.


WHERE AM I LANDING, AND WHERE IS MY GEAR.


That worked forevery landing.