"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| Stefan wrote in news:752a8$48d89b77$d9a270a8
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| schrieb:
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| The Air Canada pilot was a sailplane pilot, too, familiar with
| slipping, and had operated sailplanes out of Gimli so he knew the
| place. If anyone else had been at the controls it might not have
| turned out so pretty.
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| An airline pilot who happens to also be a pretty good sailplane pilot
| told me that it would have been much easier and equally efficient to
| just do S turns to adjust the glide path. This would also have avoided
| possible problems driving the air driven generator. The pilot who who
| did a glider landing with anairbus on the Azores in 2001 used that
| technique.
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| Bull****.
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| Bertie

Like you would know.