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Post by Andy Haworth on Jan 2, 2019 23:58:30 GMT -5
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Post by Boyd Percy on Jan 3, 2019 2:21:08 GMT -5
Good story. I wonder if Wes had an adventure like that young lady.
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Post by guempelein on Jan 4, 2019 10:31:26 GMT -5
Does she have to repeat the solo flight again to get her license?
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Post by Not Wes on Jan 4, 2019 12:39:33 GMT -5
The way I always heard it was:
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Any landing you can use the plane again is a GREAT one!"
Might take some fixing on the plane for this event, but it's likely usable again.
Not Wes
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Post by Andy Haworth on Jan 17, 2019 6:22:56 GMT -5
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Post by Andrew on Feb 11, 2019 5:20:41 GMT -5
The obvious question: Did she screw up the pre-flight inspection or was the defect hidden? The aircraft will not have belonged to her.
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Post by Andrew on Feb 13, 2019 12:18:50 GMT -5
Having looked at that video again, something rather weird: The aircraft's registration has been redacted on the photo above - which is what is shown at the very end of the video. Why? N2496X appears as the call sign around 100 times in the video. The claim - made in the clip - that she "remained calm" is also a bit tenuous, when she was initially told that she had lost a wheel she was barely holding things together. Time - and her instructor - did a great job of calming her down. www.bostonflightsimulator.com/ is right next to the airport and I can imagine her spending some time there after an experience like that. |
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Post by John Robert Mead on Feb 14, 2019 1:38:33 GMT -5
"Remained calm" probably reflects that she didn't lose it, but even when first informed retained enough self-control to maintain adequate control of the aircraft.
In a situation such as that... "barely holding things together" initially could be interpreted as "remaining calm."
Because, however tenuously at first, she _did_ hold things together, and did succeed, quite some time later, in safely landing the aircraft.
She wasn't stoic, that's for sure, but neither did she fall into screaming hysterics.
I'm sure part of their word choice was aimed at the spin they wanted to apply, in regard to how it would be perceived by those who didn't watch the video or hear the audio separate from the video.
"Spin" has been a reality in reporting things since prior to the invention of writing, after all.
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Post by Andy Haworth on Feb 18, 2019 7:42:03 GMT -5
If you google N2496X you can get some more info, including that it must have been repaired as it has been flying this month.
And if you google her name, Maggie Taraska, you can see she was back in the air 5 days later, and she is thinking of doing a Bree;
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Post by John Robert Mead on Feb 19, 2019 18:52:57 GMT -5
If she was back in the air five days later, then in all the important ways she _did_ remain calm.
If I were reviewing her application for aviation piloting-related work, how she handled this incident, and that she was "back on the horse" within five days, would both count in her favor.
Actually, I'd give her a positive evaluation for any position that might need to handle an emergency situation, given this.
Not loosing it, and being able to work things out with only remote instruction available, is more rare than we'd like to think.
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Post by K Pelle on Feb 20, 2019 7:23:29 GMT -5
If she was back in the air five days later, then in all the important ways she _did_ remain calm. If I were reviewing her application for aviation piloting-related work, how she handled this incident, and that she was "back on the horse" within five days, would both count in her favor. Actually, I'd give her a positive evaluation for any position that might need to handle an emergency situation, given this. Not loosing it, and being able to work things out with only remote instruction available, is more rare than we'd like to think. I'd second that comment and I do have a bit of experience in a somewhat similar situation. We were in a DeHaviland Beaver that had a fuel problem as we were flying over a remote lake in northern Alberta. The pilot landed on that lake, solved the problem while on the shore, then took off and flew us to our original landing point to meet with my crew. Jack (the Pilot) told me later - "I've never had THAT happen before! Just glad I had the tools along to fix it."
I was extremely glad that he didn't tell me that while we were down on the original lake because I think it was about ninety miles from the closest road.
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