Medal Winners: Air Traffic Control Tapes

On 01/30/06 11:02, Jay Honeck wrote:
New England Region - Boston:
Pilot (Dad) possible stroke, possible CO poisoning. Daughter lands plane.

That one is spooky First the dad, then the mom become unresponsive?

If it was CO poisoning, how come the daughter wasn't affected?

Would this incident have made it into the NTSB database? If they did
an investigation, perhaps we can find out what the actual problem was?

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

Montblack wrote:


Eastern Region:
Gear up catch by tower.

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

Perhaps that's why these controllers won their award. They didn't just
watch it, they did something about it.

-Robert

It got me curious.

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow
checklist.

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

Perhaps that's why these controllers won their award. They didn't just
watch it, they did something about it.

-Robert

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow checklist.

Certainly pilot failure. A mechnical issue would be caught by the pilot
99% of the time by the pilot when he noticed a gear unsafe light. There
are some very rare cases of gear not being down but indicating down but
that's not common. Its more likely a busy pilot not noticing. I've
heard tower call out gear up to pilots before. Usualy the pilots are
thankful but sometimes they are irritated.

-Robert

Toks Desalu wrote:
It got me curious.

I wonder if these events caused by malfunction or pilot's failure to follow
checklist.

A lot were caused by the pilot or instructor pulling the breaker so they
didn't have to listen to the gear horn while they practiced stalls or
engine out procedures. We'd let them know on short final and everybody
was happy.

"Newps" wrote

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

They catch a half dozen gear up, during the weeks at OSH! You would think
everyone was distracted, or something.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Newps" wrote

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

They catch a half dozen gear up, during the weeks at OSH! You would think
everyone was distracted, or something.
--
Jim in NC

must be pilots watching all the car accidents caused by drivers watching
allthe pilots with their gear up

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

It was standard practice at marine and navy towers, back when I was
in, for tower operators to add "check gerar down and locked" when
clearing a pilot to land.

Wouldn't it be helpful for civilian towers to do that?

Is the FAA concerned about liability issues?

vince norris

Should be a medal for this:

Not long ago, Jon Bon Jovi's 707 skidded off the end of the runway at CYHM.
On the next flight, the pilots reported a serious problem with their
pitot-static system. They spent some time circling near CYYZ trying to sort
it out. They made a comment to the controller that it hadn't been a good
week. They added "I guess you heard about us"". She replied "Yes.
Slippery when wet." The controller then asked if they wished to declare.
They said they didn't. She replied "Living on a prayer." She told me she
couldn't remember any more JBJ songs after that.

moo


"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
...
Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.

It was standard practice at marine and navy towers, back when I was
in, for tower operators to add "check gerar down and locked" when
clearing a pilot to land.

Wouldn't it be helpful for civilian towers to do that?

Is the FAA concerned about liability issues?

vince norris