ShyGuy

Guess I was thrown off by the title of the article:

“The Female Pilot Who Succeeded Against All Odds

From studying with a 95% male class, to building a life on her own terms.”

TroutBum

Yeah, I ended up clicking on the link to the right about the woman who rowed the Atlantic solo and unsupported. Now that's badass.

ShyGuy

Looks like SWA Capt Shultz saw the ERAU video



"She also revealed that an aviation university, which tried to recreate the incident with a flight simulator, was unable to land in the same fashion as she and her co-pilot."

"She also revealed in her speech that an aviation university recreated the conditions of that flight using a simulator, but they were unable to land the plane without utilizing the flight automation program aboard the virtual aircraft, according to the Journal.

"Darren and I didn't use any flight automation that day," Shults said."

Southwest pilot Tammie Jo Shults reflects on life-changing flight: 'We had help that day' | Fox News

freezingflyboy

Let Jesus take the wheel baby!

Sliceback

While the 56-year-old pilot has decades of experience in aviation, serving as one of the first female fighter pilots in U.S. military history and later joining Southwest in 1993, she largely credits God to helping her land Flight 1380 that day.

"The EMT said, 'You don't even have an elevated heart rate,' That's not within my grasp. I can control my voice sometimes, but that's one of those things that's God-given," Shults said.

She also revealed in her speech that an aviation university recreated the conditions of that flight using a simulator, but they were unable to land the plane without utilizing the flight automation program aboard the virtual aircraft, according to the Journal.

"Darren and I didn't use any flight automation that day," Shults said. "While we're a good team, I really don't think that we're that good. We had help that day."

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If the pilots had been non-believers would the outcome have been different? Does the airplane care about the religious beliefs of the pilots?

It's cringe-worthy that the poor simulator work shown on this thread is now being used as a baseline for the standard professional pilots should be compared to. If we can't land an airliner s/e without using the autopilot the industry is in HUGE trouble.

JamesNoBrakes

Well, you can't prove it wasn't the FSM, therefore it must have been the FSM

Han Solo

So apparently the lord just hated that WF bank executive. Let's at least be consistent, if he is going to help the pilot land the plane then there must've been a reason for the engine failure and cabin breach. I seem to have missed this part of the story on Fox News.

freezingflyboy

Ooorrrr...the woman who tried to recreate the incident in that cringe-worthy "news" segment was trying to fly a complex emergency while single-pilot in an aircraft designed for two pilots that she isn't typed or current in. If an appropriately rated and current pilot can't complete an engine failure/severe damage checklist and successfully fly the aircraft to a landing while following proper procedures (such as having an appropriately rated and current pilot in the other seat NOT named God) then there are several thousand current and former CRJ drivers out there with bogus type ratings/had better find religion.

Given the source, I am going to give Capt. Shults the benefit of the doubt and assume her comments were taken out of context/misrepresented to pander to a certain demographic. But just...ooof!

Sliceback

The basics of the emergency aren’t that different from airplane to airplane if you’re a professional, and experienced, pilot even if you’re not qualified on the airplane.

A Squared

Well, true. But the basics of not pulling through the stick shaker to a stall are pretty much the same airplane to airplane, and that seemed beyond her.