Also, Boeing:
Why I thought of this I have no idea, but Tim Calhoun (Will Forteās first skit on SNL), candidate for Congress, was bizarrely hilarious.
āWhat America needs is another big lake.ā
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The Boeing stories are troubling on so many levels.
āIf it aināt Boeing I aināt goingā no longer applies.
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Itās also hampering things for us immensely at SWA.
But hey, the shareholders and Wall Street needed to be appeased at Boeing for yearsā¦
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I was hoping you were not the FO on that down to 400ā SWA flight recently.
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Or the one from PHX to OAK that went into a Dutch roll and suffered structural damage, but ultimately landed safely.
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Question: to get into a Dutch roll, do you use a Dutch rudder?
Iām afraid to even google what a āDutch rudderā is.
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Yeah, the Lihue go-around was talked about when I went to recurrent training in May. It was a very grisly situation and Iām relieved the result wasnāt catastrophic. We also had a crew go-around in La Guardia earlier in the year that was a shit show. The need to remain vigilant and have both pilots being dialed in in an ever complex and dynamic modern ATC system/flying environment is more than ever paramount.
I can tell you the FAA is scrutinizing United right now big time and I wouldnāt be surprised if they start looking at us or other airlines to see if training or procedures need to be changed.
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Or, double-Dutch rudder.
Yeah, now thereās no way Iām looking that up.
You usually have to pay extra for that action, Cotton.
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Sigh. STOP ADDING CONTOL INPUTS!!!. The plane will frickinā correct itself. Unless you are flying a relic.
Not always.
There is talk there was a failed PCU/Power Control Unit. Not sure why the standby rudder control system didnāt kick in, though.
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The whole 737 Max issue was that the electronic systems were actively trying to crash the plane and locked out the pilotsā ability to stop it.
I could go on and on about MCAS and those crashes, but we donāt have enough time in the day.
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The fight those pilots put up against a machine hell bent on killing them was heroic and heartbreaking. Then Boeing blamed them for the crashes.
Fuck Boeing.
I wasnāt there in the heat of the battle, and without trying to sound holier than thou/pious, I do always have to say there was a lack of basic airmanship in those 2 crashes that might, again, might have given them a better shot.
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Thereās a reason one is first taught to āAviate, Navigate, Communicateā in that very order. Fly the plane first, figure things out, then talk.
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To follow up on thisā¦both chuck and I googled that later last night. We only have one question for you: What the fuck, Ray?
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