Originally posted by kculon
I'm not a RL pilot, but I think the video shows gross pilot error. Good that he recovered, even a great recovery. But in the end he was pushing a bad situation and almost lost it. Glad I wasn't on board. Nothing wrong with going round a couple times to get the feel of the situation. Landing fixation......
kc
Since you are not a pilot, you don't operate under the same microscope of scrutiny - and frankly your opinion is reckless and uninformed. Those of us who have been drivers for years know that sometimes you get handed a bad deal - there is nothing you can do about it.
We lost 2 pilots in the past week to bad deals. 1 in Riverside CA where his engine failed in a densely populated area at 500 feet - everyone in the plane died - but the guy maneuvered it away from populated areas and saved a lot of people on the ground. Another down in Rio - Brazil when they put JET-A in the tank when AVGAS was called because the line guy got confused by the label "Turbo" on the side of the engine cowling. That guy had 30 years behind the stick, his engine failed at 500 feet when the AVGAS cleared the lines, JET-A finally made it to the spider valve, and his engine detonated and failed.
I almost got my friends T-28B refueled with Jet-A once. The jet truck pulled up; I asked "what's this for"? She said the manager told her during training that all large airplanes took Jet-A. Just proves line person training is all over the place.
"You get what you INspect, not what you EXpect."
As for the Airbus pilot - he did it right. You can't see gusts, but he didn't lose it, went around and got down.
