Airport and Airport 1975

Scott Skylane wrote:
Dylan Smith wrote:
...indeed, the NTSB report is here
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X29141&key=2

Man, speaking about contractions and abbreviations, what the *heck* is
up with that NTSB report????

Now we know where text-messaging abbreviations originated. ;-)

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dave J writes:

It's bad form to follow up one's own post, but I thought I would
mention that the first film (Airport) ends with a PAR approach. It
might be worth it to rent and fast-forward just to see that. I've
practiced one in my life with a very bored controller at Travis AFB,
if I remember correctly, but it went like the movie, except the
controller gave me relative turns (left 5 degree, right 5 degrees)
not bearings (left to 285) like in the movie.

I've never figured out why the pilots ask for a PAR approach in that
movie.

Because you're an idiot, that's why.


Bertie

"Scott Skylane" wrote in message
...
Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2007-04-19, Dave J wrote:

The second movie, where a Baron hits the cockpit of a 747 and the


In a flash of cruel irony, if I remember right, the Baron used in that
film really did end up crashing in a mid air collision a few years
later....

...indeed, the NTSB report is here
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X29141&key=2

Man, speaking about contractions and abbreviations, what the *heck* is up
with that NTSB report????


SOTA 1989?