Condescending? A bonehead maneuvre requires a vigourous response. You can get away with any kind of mayhem in light aircraft when everything goes well. You finish the flight and feel really good that you "got in" and what a hotshot you are. God's gift to aviation. As soon as something goes south, you have no idea where to go, have used up all your options and you smoke it and everyone says nice things about you at your funeral. Yes, I am condescending. A significant number of the crews I see in the sim screw up a circling approach, even after a thorough pre-brief in the classroom. Add an engine fail/fire/electrical fault into the mix, and it gets even worse.
Remember the motto of the Safety Letter?
Circling Minimums
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Good one XS. Just a quick note on how fast things can and do go south. While I was doing trining in a B200 simulator, the PF was doing a circlig approach in dirty weather at night while I (acting as PNF) was monitoring the instruments. I called "airspeed low" and he said "correcting". Normally this would have been the end of it, but the guy in the back failed an engine on him and we instantly hit VMC as the airspeed was continuually degrading. We had just enough time to crash .4 short of the field when the PF turned to me ans said "what happened"
Now that's going south in a hurry!
D.
Now that's going south in a hurry!
D.
Altitude, Airspeed and Brains,
You always need at least two...
You always need at least two...
