Which skies do you feel safer flying in?

p4radox said:
The clip of the American pilot who landed in the Hudson was incredible. Not even a hint of panic, just "I'm going to land her in the Hudson" or something.:cool:
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Pfft ditching is easy, we even have a checklist for it lol. Seriously though, the Hudson crash was some pretty impressive stuff. It was the first totally successful commercial ditching. Hats off to the crew. I actually fly the same type of plane they were in, A320-200.
 
I claim shenanigans on Scuzi's part.

A bloke got sucked in the engine on Die Hard II and the plane still managed to take off without damage to the engine.

Surely Hollywood speaks the truth ?

Got to agree with Fox. Ice cool.

I am not an engineer so can someone explain why the engine was flaming at regular intervals ? Air / fuel mix interrupted ?
 
I would have thought it was chunks of bird that caused the irregular blasts of fire. Probably got stuck inside and bits of it kept getting pushed out rather than all at once. Looking again you are right, it does seem to blast, then stop, blast, then stop at a pretty consistent rate, which would suggest something more complex.

Again im not anything that comes close to an engineer on aircraft, so im probably wrong :p
 
Von Smallhausen said:
I am not an engineer so can someone explain why the engine was flaming at regular intervals ? Air / fuel mix interrupted ?
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Seriously down on compression, fuel still going in making it shoot flames (too rich a mixture) and igniter trying and failing to restart it (causing the frequency of the pulses).

I'm not the right kind of engineer to answer, but that's my guess.
 
Nymins said:
I would have thought it was chunks of bird that caused the irregular blasts of fire. Probably got stuck inside and bits of it kept getting pushed out rather than all at once. Looking again you are right, it does seem to blast, then stop, blast, then stop at a pretty consistent rate, which would suggest something more complex.

Again im not anything that comes close to an engineer on aircraft, so im probably wrong :p
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Yea it wasn't the bird causing the fire. Well I suppose it was the INITIAL cause. When the engine does that its called Surging. It basically means that the airflow through the engine has become disrupted. In this case the bird most likely bent a number of the blades and stators which caused the airflow to get upset. The upset air will cause a number of the blades to stall and re-pressure repeatedly. In minor cases just reducing the thrust on the engine can restore the airflow, however in this case the engine is actually damaged and so needs to be shut down.
 
Blinkz said:
Yea it wasn't the bird causing the fire. Well I suppose it was the INITIAL cause. When the engine does that its called Surging. It basically means that the airflow through the engine has become disrupted. In this case the bird most likely bent a number of the blades and stators which caused the airflow to get upset. The upset air will cause a number of the blades to stall and re-pressure repeatedly. In minor cases just reducing the thrust on the engine can restore the airflow, however in this case the engine is actually damaged and so needs to be shut down.
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Ahh well there you go!

Thanks for the info. Always interesting posts! :)
 
Blinkz said:
Pfft ditching is easy, we even have a checklist for it lol. Seriously though, the Hudson crash was some pretty impressive stuff. It was the first totally successful commercial ditching. Hats off to the crew. I actually fly the same type of plane they were in, A320-200.
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My hat comes off to you my friend.
 
Which skies do you feel safet flying in?
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I prefer to fly in Skies with Yellow Suns personally:

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i'm less worried about flying in one that one dropping on my head. You should see how many are flying over our heads at any one time.

Think you are safe on the ground .... lol
 
jas72 said:
i'm less worried about flying in one that one dropping on my head. You should see how many are flying over our heads at any one time.

Think you are safe on the ground .... lol
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You're more likely to die tripping over, the real danger comes from below.
 
Not really wanting to totally derail this thread, but seeing as it's up. Scuzi, I got into stage 3 of NATS selection, am doing it at the end of the month. What can I expect, and is there anything that I really should do/brush up on before hand?
 
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