Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane
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From: Mxsmanic on 17 Jun 2010 14:42 Hatunen writes: > It's a very big step from being licensed as a commercial pilot > and being licensed with an ATR (airline transport rating). It's an even bigger step when the CPL and medical expired twenty years earlier.
From: Mxsmanic on 17 Jun 2010 14:44 GrtArtiste writes: > Given this set of circumstances, what types of assistance would a > commercial-rated pilot be able to offer assuming she is not rated on > this type aircraft? I would guess-communications with ATC primarily. > What else? The same things any non-pilot could do: move levers and buttons when the captain asks her two, read checklists, communicate with ATC, etc. It helps a bit if she has piloting experience, but that doesn't mean that she will be doing anything that _requires_ piloting experience.
From: Mxsmanic on 17 Jun 2010 14:44 vaughn writes: > Of course, what seems to have been left out of this story is that the Captain > was likely perfectly capable of flying the plane all by himself ... Not merely likely but certainly, by design. It's a non-event.
From: a on 17 Jun 2010 15:19 On Jun 17, 2:42 pm, Mxsmanic <mxsma...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hatunen writes: > > It's a very big step from being licensed as a commercial pilot > > and being licensed with an ATR (airline transport rating). > > It's an even bigger step when the CPL and medical expired twenty years > earlier. Think of this as a learning experience. PP and CP Licenses do not expire.
From: Dudley Henriques on 17 Jun 2010 17:10
On Jun 17, 2:44 pm, Mxsmanic <mxsma...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > GrtArtiste writes: > > Given this set of circumstances, what types of assistance would a > > commercial-rated pilot be able to offer assuming she is not rated on > > this type aircraft? I would guess-communications with ATC primarily. > > What else? > > The same things any non-pilot could do: move levers and buttons when the > captain asks her two, read checklists, communicate with ATC, etc. It helps a > bit if she has piloting experience, but that doesn't mean that she will be > doing anything that _requires_ piloting experience. This is absolutely correct. At no time was this attendant actually flying this aircraft. She came up front and sat down in the right seat acting as an extra set of hands to select, push, pull, and turn, any and all switches and levers as asked for by the Captain. She acted as an "assistant" and that's all. Not to take anything away from this lady who performed as asked to perform under trying circumstances, and indeed she personally appeared on national TV this morning to "set straight" all the hype being presented about her acting in any other capacity than that I have stated above. It helped certainly that this nice lady had flying experience but it was by NO MEANS essential to what she was asked to do or what she actually did in the cockpit. Had the Captain opted to, he most certainly could have completed the flight to a safe completion from the left seat without assistance. He might have had to extend his reach a bit at times, but nothing earth shattering for sure. All in all, this was a class crew and they did a class job, right down to the stew who very classily and politely deflated the media hype on her role in the completion of this flight. Dudley Henriques |