Pilot Dies, Passenger Lands Plane
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Wow not a good way to start your trip off
Good thing the guy was a pilot himself or they would probably all be dead.
Wonder how the pilot died...
RIP for the pilot but thats a cool story nonetheless.
crazy shit
That was local news here, heard it on the morning broadcast
They said a heart attack this morning. :shrug:
They said a heart attack this morning. :shrug:
DrZacharyus
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You guys have NO idea how hard it was to land that plane! I was half asleep when everyone started screaming...
Were you phelps when u landed it.
STG
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The passenger is a licensed pilot, not a bad-ass. He wasn't rated in high performance multi-engine planes like the King Air.
THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. I'm not multi-engine or jet rated yet somehow managed to take off, fly and land left seat in a Ted Smith Aerostar, Beech Queen Air, and amass 8 hours of flight time including 16 night landings in a Boeing 737-400 Category C Flight Simulator with out crashing or even scratching anything.
If you can fly a Cessna 152, you can fly and land a King Air with a little assistance to find the switches and knobs on the panel and get talked through high approach and landing speeds.
I don't think the passenger's landing went anything like this:
THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. I'm not multi-engine or jet rated yet somehow managed to take off, fly and land left seat in a Ted Smith Aerostar, Beech Queen Air, and amass 8 hours of flight time including 16 night landings in a Boeing 737-400 Category C Flight Simulator with out crashing or even scratching anything.
If you can fly a Cessna 152, you can fly and land a King Air with a little assistance to find the switches and knobs on the panel and get talked through high approach and landing speeds.
I don't think the passenger's landing went anything like this:
DrZacharyus
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Multiple Phelpsin' sessions bro, I wish we could all burn one and fly a plane together
The passenger is a licensed pilot, not a bad-ass. He wasn't rated in high performance multi-engine planes like the King Air.
THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. I'm not multi-engine or jet rated yet somehow managed to take off, fly and land left seat in a Ted Smith Aerostar, Beech Queen Air, and amass 8 hours of flight time including 16 night landings in a Boeing 737-400 Category C Flight Simulator with out crashing or even scratching anything.
If you can fly a Cessna 152, you can fly and land a King Air with a little assistance to find the switches and knobs on the panel and get talked through high approach and landing speeds.
I don't think the passenger's landing went anything like this:
Pretty much sums up what I was thinking. All the basics are the same, just need the layout and the approach speeds. Those are really the only things you have to adjust plane to plane. Well, as far as landings go.
I hadn't heard that he was a pilot. That does make him less of a badass, but still a badass. I don't know if you've ever experienced an emergency while flying, but it gets the adrenaline going.. Imagine the situation, you're in an unfamiliar, faster, heavier, multi engined aircraft with a dead/dying man next to you... Given the situation, acting rationally and making good decisions, and as a result saving lives, shouldn't be thrown aside.
No Ted Striker here, move along...
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