"Veteran ERAU pilot" embarrasses herself onTV
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Agreed. And if she is not current/capable to fly that sim she should have at least deferred to someone who is. She got her 15 minutes of fame (or infamy), maybe not exactly what she wanted but she got something out of it.
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It was a CRJ 200, and she sucked. She finally stowed the boards after stalling a few times. 100 feet is too high for idle even in a 200, if your energy state is that jacked you need to go around. But she probably had the red screen disabled.
Must be a reason she works for riddle. Tami Jo probably threw up a little bit.
Must be a reason she works for riddle. Tami Jo probably threw up a little bit.
But yes she was poorly rehearsed, scary part is this sim video is probably what half or more real life flights would look like if it happened unsuspectingly.
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Her PM was a reporter, so she was basically single pilot in a crewd airplane during an actual emergency, not a LOFT trivial item. She also likely never worked for a regional and therefore never went through IOE on the CRJ.
Lot of guys upset on here how well someone handles an emergency single pilot in a plane their not line standard on, and likely have never flown in real life.
Now her judgment to accept the assignment for 20/20 knowing these things speaks far more than a rusty performance.
Last edited by Happyflyer; 05-17-2018 at 08:18 PM.
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The embarrassing thing is Embry Riddle could have prevented this by giving her a couple hours in the sim prior to ABC showing up.
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I agree with this. I took one of her classes many years ago and she was an decent and really fair professor from my recollection but I do not believe she has even touched a jet in probably 15+ years. I believe she was on the DC10 with Hawaiian before she got furloughed so it's been a while...I dont know why they didn't choose one of the more current pilots (there are definitely more current female pilots there if they needed one) to do this...Shocking really.
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This story says more about the news being offered to the viewers than it does about the pilot or ERAU. As professional pilots this story is right in our wheel house and we can see how effing stupid the entire thing is. Almost all the news is a variation of this story, but we aren't experts in those fields so we can't call them out on it. Just remember that when you get all fired up over XXX story == it's probably a load of BS.
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