SurlyGator
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25 minutes ago, locodos said:
pffft
This is all you need right here
Well, this sent me down a YouTube rabbit hole. The company whose pilot was interviewed for this clip (Dauntless Air) is based in Minnesota, but has three hangars with one of them being in Cleburn. That plane is part crop duster, part seaplane, part (water) bomber, and is the largest production single engine plane on the market. Those pilots make it look easy. It isn't.
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I'm not a pilot, but it sounds more like a crap ton of pilot error. Even if they did lose both engines to bird strikes (a la Miracle on the Hudson), they were airborne more than twice the amount of time that Sully was, plus they did a go around teardrop which would be next to impossible with no thrust. Could the APU have been damaged and wouldn't start? Maybe, but with the redundancy built into airlines I would think that would be highly unlikely.
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Surly Dad Thread
in Daily Texan
I suggest you keep that little nugget to yourself in this instance...