How do you handle a case of emergency?
12-04-2006, 08:35 AM
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How do you handle a case of emergency?
Hello everyone!
I have wondered about this for some time. Say, it is the FOs leg and an emergency occurs (whatever kind), who flies the aircraft? Does the FO just carry on, does the Captain take over or is it just handled from case to case by the captains authority? Are there any differences in this within the different companies?
Thank you all in advance
best wishes
Jakob
P.S. I didn't know where to post this, so if the admin finds this is in the wrong spot, please just move it - thank you.
I have wondered about this for some time. Say, it is the FOs leg and an emergency occurs (whatever kind), who flies the aircraft? Does the FO just carry on, does the Captain take over or is it just handled from case to case by the captains authority? Are there any differences in this within the different companies?
Thank you all in advance
best wishes
Jakob
P.S. I didn't know where to post this, so if the admin finds this is in the wrong spot, please just move it - thank you.
12-04-2006, 09:13 AM
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Personally as a Captain, I am going to let the FO fly the aircraft whenever possible, regardless of who was the designated flying pilot for the leg. I prefer this because the FO is capable of flying the aircraft under any circumstances that I can (or at least should be if trained properly).
By handing off the flying duties, I can better focus my attention on the problem at hand and coordinating any necessary responses, as well as dealing with the other "administrative" issues that occur during an emergency. (Such as cabin prep, company coordination, ATC response, our requests to the ground, judgement calls, etc)
"You have the plane, I have the radios and the checklists. Let me know if there's anything that you need, okay?"
By handing off the flying duties, I can better focus my attention on the problem at hand and coordinating any necessary responses, as well as dealing with the other "administrative" issues that occur during an emergency. (Such as cabin prep, company coordination, ATC response, our requests to the ground, judgement calls, etc)
"You have the plane, I have the radios and the checklists. Let me know if there's anything that you need, okay?"
12-04-2006, 09:30 AM
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Ah, ok, thanks alot. Have you guys experienced any really tough ones (not gals, emergencies!
) so far? Just because of curiosity, I mean as this thread is in "Hangar Talk" anyway I guess I am allowed to ask something like this. I hope this question is not offending to anyone - so no hard feelin's please! If there are anymore comments concerning the orriginal question I would be more than happy to hear them! Do I understand correctly that handling such a situation is up to the captain so he decides who flys/runs checklists etc.? Thanks again!
) so far? Just because of curiosity, I mean as this thread is in "Hangar Talk" anyway I guess I am allowed to ask something like this. I hope this question is not offending to anyone - so no hard feelin's please! If there are anymore comments concerning the orriginal question I would be more than happy to hear them! Do I understand correctly that handling such a situation is up to the captain so he decides who flys/runs checklists etc.? Thanks again!
12-04-2006, 10:15 AM
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Only had two real inconveniences. The first was a surging engine on a C-310, and it didn't turn into a real problem. That one was single pilot. The other was in the King Air 350 when we had a generator destroy itself. It wasn't a real problem after we isolated it. Everything worked fine after that, but we had a black residue that came out of the top of the engine. We didn't know if it was smoke or not. Turns out when a generator destroys itself, there's a decent amount of graphite present. Creates a nice black swirl down the engine nacelle. We went back home and replaced the generator.
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