Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Mentour Pilot" channel.

  1. The fact that your final moments may lead to you being remembered as being unprofessional and having poor airmanship should be pretty strong motivation to quit screwing around.
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  2.  @JamesDavy2009  NASA has its own version: "go fever"
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  3.  @smoshfan439  They're not being "dishonored", they're being remembered for exactly what they did: abused an aircraft, destroying the aircraft, getting themselves killed in the process, and putting others in danger. These are facts. Doesn't mean they were bad guys, but on their last day on earth they got into trouble they couldn't get themselves out of.
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  4.  @hairyairey  Is that in the report or just your opinion?
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  5. Yes, once they close that hatch your fate is out of your hands.
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  6. Sharks with frikkin' laser beams.
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  7.  @Vonononie  The Netherlands is like Finland in that regard.
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  8. I experienced something similar when training in a C-150, but the plane in front of me was a light twin, not a Hercules. Didn't flip me sideways or anything, but definitely got a wicked shimmy there for a minute. Almost learned the hard way.
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  9. Interesting about the delta wing's high speed takeoff and landing requirements being hard on the tires. I remember in the early days of the Space Shuttle, also a delta wing, they had problems blowing tires on the runway after landing, so they added the drag chute, allowing the pilot to go easy on the brakes until the ground speed came down. One of the orbiters experienced a fire on the landing gear during landing. Building an airframe for high speeds has consequences.
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  10. Goddamn DC-10
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  11. It's the button that signals the start of a toga party in the cabin. Animal House starts playing as the in-flight movie.
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  12. So then, just culture is more effective than cancel culture.
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  13. If you watched the movie Airport 1975, you know that the correct procedure is to let the autopilot keep the airplane steady and slow so that Charleton Heston can rappel in from a helicopter. Once he is in the cockpit, he will land the plane for you.
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  14. The wide angle lens makes it look like the pilots are facing each other instead of the nose.
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  15. 3 things a pilot can't use: 1. The altitude above him 2. The runway behind him 3. The fuel he left on the ground
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  16. This story is like one of those 1970s airline disaster films like Airport 1977.
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  17. "What do we have on the spacecraft that's good?" - Flight Director Gene Kranz to his engineers dealing with multiple failures on the Apollo 13 vehicle.
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  18. You'd think it would be more common to give the crew a means of inspecting their wings and control surfaces from the cockpit.
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  19. I remember this when I was growing up. They made one of those cheesy made-for-TV movies about it.
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  20. Crew suddenly found themselves reenacting a scene from one of the Top Gun movies and managed to keep it together. Shame the company trashed the airplane.
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  21. I read that the controller you hear trying to get them a runway at Teterboro felt horrible because he thought the people he was just talking to were all dead, and was surprised to find out that they survived.
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  22. As an aside, I've said this before, the 747 is an absolutely beautiful airplane. That's all.
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  23. Not to second guess Capt. Moody, but wargaming this out: what if he had decided against descending to extend his glide distance? Would he have made it over the mountains and been able to glide to an airfield?
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  24. I remember all of these nasty and highly public DC-10 accidents when I was a child back then, and I remember my dad, who worked for Delta Airlines, saying he was glad Delta decided to buy the L1011.
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  25. Let's face it, in this situation I would take my cellphone off of airplane mode and dial 911.
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  26. L1011 is a beautiful jet, a comfortable ride, love the engine sound. But I think my favorite is the 727. Flew on lots of those back in the day. Not very roomy, and kind of noisy, especially in the tail area, but it's the good noise. Mainly I love the look of the 727, it just looks like it's fast with that wing sweep and the T-tail. Delta's paint job back in the 80s and 90s was also way better than today's and it looks awesome on 727's and L1011's.
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  27. I'm disappointed, I thought it might have been some kind of variable geometry wizardry with an aerodynamic reason, like adjustable winglets or something. How boring it's just to save space like a naval fighter.
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  28. 45 min to cool the brakes before even taxiing, yikes!
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  29. That captain should've bought a lottery ticket while his luck was up.
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