Another 'Sully'?

[GM]

Cessna Caravan had to ditch off the coast of Hawaii.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/hawaii-survivor-plane-lost-power-then-glided-5060760.php

"To land on its belly with all the waves, that's pretty impressive," he said. "He's a glider pilot, too. So he knows what to do when a plane is stuck in a glide."

'nuff said.

GM

[son_of_flubber]

Kudos to the pilot for a good landing.

So... there are pilots of single engine commercial flights that would not be able to land on the ocean without an engine???

[Ralph Jones[_3_]]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 11:19:51 -0800 (PST), son_of_flubber
> wrote:

>Kudos to the pilot for a good landing.
>
>So... there are pilots of single engine commercial flights that would not be able to land on the ocean without an engine???
>
>
Depends on what you mean by "able". Landing on the open sea is a risky
operation in ANY airplane, and that includes even the largest flying
boats. "Seaplane" is a bit of a misnomer: "Protectedwaterplane" would
be more descriptive.

And absent one of those, the only way you can practice is in a
simulator...your first landing on actual H2O will be the time that
counts. In a fixed-gear airplane, you'll be drawing to an inside
straight.

[GM]

On Saturday, December 14, 2013 2:19:51 PM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:
> Kudos to the pilot for a good landing.
>
>
>
> So... there are pilots of single engine commercial flights that would not be able to land on the ocean without an engine???

Not wanting to generalize but looking at some of the recent accidents with commercial airliners (big or small), I begin to seriously question the hands-on or computer-off flying skills of the guys or girls in the little room at the pointy end of the plane.

GM

[Tony[_5_]]

If a couple former Dreamlifter pilots would've been computer slaves they would still have jobs.

[Ralph Jones[_3_]]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:35:13 -0800 (PST), Tony >
wrote:

>If a couple former Dreamlifter pilots would've been computer slaves they would still have jobs.

....and if three Asiana pilots hadn't, all their pasengers would be
alive.

[John Clear]

In article >,
Tony > wrote:
>If a couple former Dreamlifter pilots would've been computer slaves they
>would still have jobs.

I thought their issue was that they didn't follow the computers?

Wrong airport is usually the result of flying a visual approach
and not cross checking with the nav instruments.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

[Dan Marotta]

....or improperly programming the nav computers (see the Korean Airlines
flight shot down after overflying Sakhalin Island, and the AA flight that
crashed in South America after tuning the wrong station)...


"John Clear" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> Tony > wrote:
>>If a couple former Dreamlifter pilots would've been computer slaves they
>>would still have jobs.
>
> I thought their issue was that they didn't follow the computers?
>
> Wrong airport is usually the result of flying a visual approach
> and not cross checking with the nav instruments.
>
> John
> --
> John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/
>