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Question for business jet pilots, movie S.W.A.T.
Hi folks. A question, if I may.
In the film "S.W.A.T.", a commandeered Learjet is descending for a landing on a bridge. The pilot or copilot is going through checklists and he says, "Go to 'forty percent flaps.' " I'm a private pilot, and I use DEGREES of flaps (10, 20, or 30 -- and once, in a really old 172, 40). Am I correct in thinking that this was movie idiocy -- they spent all their budget on Samuel L. Jackson and got a third-rate aviation consultant if they got one at all -- or do Learjet pilots really use "percentage" of flaps? Thanks for your help. ---Jeffrey "Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying, life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky." |
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