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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally posted by Danskman
Wow. That is impressive. For you professional pilots on the board... of 100 random commercial pilots working today, how many do you think have the skills to pull off those landings? 100%? 98%?
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The thing is that we are not subjected to this type of situation often. I would hope that at least 50% could handle it, while hoping even more than the rest of them could realize it and land somewhere else, with a runway into the wind.
Still remember a medivac flight in the late '80. Landed at dawn in Berlin Tegel with a heart for transplant on board. They had said mixed ice and snow on the runway but no one had landed in the last 5-7 hours and no one knew how slick it was.
Landed and we went sliding sideways at 140 mph and it did not look good for a while. Self peservation won and I pulled the drag chute (Older model Learjets had them "just in case" and it pulled us straight and slowed us enough to get some braking.
Got a lot of my grey hair that morning...
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