Step climbs

GrtArtiste writes:

It is midsummer. I'm departing KLAX on a fully loaded 747 at 1800 PDT
for an evening flight into KSTL There are thunderstorms popping up
along the route. Then, the problem: both pilots are stricken with food
poisoning (hey! it's my nightmare). A frantic call goes out from the
head flight attendant---Is there a pilot on board!!! There are only
two: a GA pilot who has logged 300 hours total, 120 IFR in a C182 and
a student pilot who just had his first solo flight last week in an old
Cherokee. Then...this humoron stands up and says: "I've flown 100
hours in a 747 simluator". So...who gets to sit in the left seat in a
desparate gamble to save all their lives? I know who my choice would
be, and I know who I would not choose.

Since you need two pilots to fly a 747, you must choose two people. I'd pick
the sim pilot and the GA pilot with the IFR experience. Make the sim pilot
PIC, and make the GA pilot FO. It's not necessary to pick a PF because you
can fly and land with full automation.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
TxSrv writes:


Keep up the arrogant insults.


It's neither arrogant nor an insult. It's just an observation.


You're a ****tard.

You've never even towed a spam can.

jackass.

Tim writes:

You're a ****tard.

You've never even towed a spam can.

jackass.

I'm unable to find a definition of a step climb in your post. Perhaps part of
it was lost by the server.

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On Feb 27, 7:39 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

Since you need two pilots to fly a 747, you must choose two people. I'd pick
the sim pilot and the GA pilot with the IFR experience. Make the sim pilot
PIC, and make the GA pilot FO. It's not necessary to pick a PF because you
can fly and land with full automation.

This response in no way surprises me. Does it surprise anyone else? I
didn't think so.

Of course you don't need two pilots to fly a 747. I've seen it done.
Charlton Heston did it in Airport '75. What-you say? That's not real
life-you say? pot-kettle-black.

GrtArtiste

We are as a group clearly not worthy of your postings. It's a sign of
very poor judgement on your part to ask questions in a forum where you
don't get the quality of responses you obviously deserve, so why don't
you let us go play with our little airplanes and go away?




On Feb 27, 7:37 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
BT writes:
A very poor assumption.

Maybe the only pilots in this group also happen to be the only pilots who
don't know what a step climb is, then.

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Tony writes:

We are as a group clearly not worthy of your postings. It's a sign of
very poor judgement on your part to ask questions in a forum where you
don't get the quality of responses you obviously deserve, so why don't
you let us go play with our little airplanes and go away?

It has nothing to do with worthiness. Judgements of worth are for people with
ego problems.

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GrtArtiste writes:

Of course you don't need two pilots to fly a 747.

In an emergency, you can fly with one. But it's better with two, and you
really only need one person who can follow instructions. It a question of
needing more than two hands for certain procedures.

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We'd have to choose Ted Stryker! ;-)
Stryker?!? ... Stryker?!? ... Stryker!!!

ROFL, Thanks for the reminder!

Also at the same time he will answer questions that he doesnt know the
answer or will copy an answer that was posted and try to take credit for it.

Not4wood



"Mark Hansen" wrote in message
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On 02/27/07 15:19, BT wrote:
I can see why tin-can pilots wouldn't know anything about step climbs.

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A very poor assumption.

BT



Actually, MX always asserts that each person who does not answer his
question, does so because they do not know the answer.

I think it's his childish way of trying to goat folks into answering
him ;-\

On Feb 27, 9:02 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:


In an emergency, you can fly with one. But it's better with two, and you
really only need one person who can follow instructions. It a question of
needing more than two hands for certain procedures.



Okay, I call bull**** here...

MX, how the f**k can you possibly know a 747 can be flown single
pilot?? And don't say "because I do it all the time on sims"... The
gear handle is on the F/O's side, and the left seater would need
orangutan arms to reach it I think. The 747-400 requires 2 pilots for
a reason... Besides the fact it's on the type certificate... As far as
using autoland a sim pilot (or GA pilot for that matter) would have no
idea how to load and arm the approach. That argument doesn't even
begin to make sense.