Time building - flying full-time in December
12-23-2019, 09:59 PM
#21
All is fine at .79
Joined APC: Sep 2016
Position: Paahlot
Posts: 4,228
I’m with Excargodog.
I brought a safety pilot along on the trip to share the flying since I don’t have autopilot. Flew 2 weeks straight. The most we did in one day was a 15 hour flight that was over 1600 miles long.
And a 15 hr flight in one day is not “safe” or “smart”.
12-23-2019, 10:38 PM
#23
Perennial Reserve
Joined APC: Jan 2018
Posts: 12,254
I’m sure the Commutair crew at Presque Isle was 99% sure they were actually landing on the runway. But sometimes even 99% sure just isn’t certainty enough. Personally, I’d have headed back to EWR after the first missed approach. It isn’t naysaying, it’s called prudence.
But I’d never deny someone the chance to risk THEIR OWN life, although I might advise them against it.
12-24-2019, 03:28 AM
#24
All is fine at .79
Joined APC: Sep 2016
Position: Paahlot
Posts: 4,228
Statistically you’re at one of the danger points in your career
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457510003672
This is called the dead zone:
You think you’re bullet proof as you’ve mastered a single engine airplane.
Before you come back with a smart answer think for three seconds and realize that ALL OF US HERE have been where you are now.
You just need to make it to where we are.
Without killing yourself.
(Read this is Morgan Freeman’s voice)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457510003672
This is called the dead zone:
You think you’re bullet proof as you’ve mastered a single engine airplane.
Before you come back with a smart answer think for three seconds and realize that ALL OF US HERE have been where you are now.
You just need to make it to where we are.
Without killing yourself.
(Read this is Morgan Freeman’s voice)
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