Cool, Calm, Collected - Hudson Pilot recording

[Bible_Belt]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/1549.voice.recorder.tape/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Listen to the pilot's voice as he tells the air traffic controllers that he is going to land in the Hudson River. He is about to attempt a landing that has not been done successfully in over fifty years by any pilot anywhere, and his voice sounds like they are doing a routine drill. He's so calm about it that the air traffic controllers have a hard time believing what they are hearing.

 

[speakeasy]

I'm surprised that the actual landing in the Hudsen wasn't caught on tape when you consider the fact that it happened next to the most densely populated place in N. America and how many people are walking around with phones that take video.

Good job to the pilot. If this happened in a landlocked city with no water to splash down in, they'd have been fvcked. Another plane in Denver yesterday had to return because a bird flew into the engine, it's a pretty common thing it seems for birds seriously damage planes.

 

[azanon]

I'm surprised that the actual landing in the Hudsen wasn't caught on tape when you consider the fact that it happened next to the most densely populated place in N. America and how many people are walking around with phones that take video.

It was, actually. I'm too lazy to find the video for you though.

 

[Bible_Belt]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480412,00.html

 

[speakeasy]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480412,00.html

Ah, ok. That's the first actual footage I saw of it. Looks like he brought it in pretty slow.

 

[The Conquistador]

I am a student pilot and I can tel you that in training we spend quite a bit of time on emergency procedures. This oldtimer professional probably has quite a few hours in the simulator and in flight doing procedures something like this. I was a bit scared the first time an instructor pulled the throttle back and said, "your engine is dead. What are you going to do?"

 

[azanon]

I was a bit scared the first time an instructor pulled the throttle back and said, "your engine is dead. What are you going to do?"

If i had all choices open to me, TBH, I'd restart the engine and put the throttle back where it was. :rockon:

 

[Maxtro]

This oldtimer professional probably has quite a few hours in the simulator and in flight doing procedures something like this

ROFL, hours in the simulator? How about being a fighter pilot and having over 40 years of flying experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Sullenberger

That's a man who is in control of his element.

Birds are a major problem for airplanes. Whomever can figure out how to get birds away from airports or make airplane engines bird proof, will be a very rich man.

My suggestion is flying cats.

 

[Quiksilver]

The passengers are actually really lucky, to have no ordinary pilot. You don't get ex-air force fighter pilots cruising around in passenger jets these days, and with all the experience he has... very very lucky.

With 40+ years flight experience(and not some el cheapo flying either) I'm sure he's had countless problems he's had to deal with on the go, so he was definitely the man for the job.

 

[speakeasy]

The passengers are actually really lucky, to have no ordinary pilot. You don't get ex-air force fighter pilots cruising around in passenger jets these days, and with all the experience he has... very very lucky.

With 40+ years flight experience(and not some el cheapo flying either) I'm sure he's had countless problems he's had to deal with on the go, so he was definitely the man for the job.

I think pretty much any commercial airline pilot could have did what he did.

 

[azanon]

And as if that wiki profile isn't over the top from a "who's who" standpoint, the guy had a book on "professional ethics" currently checked out from the library that was lost with the plane!

 

[Moose_God_II]

If i had all choices open to me, TBH, I'd restart the engine and put the throttle back where it was. :rockon:

Haha I actually did that when I was getting my PPL...and my instructor slapped my hand (cute blonde flight instructor too...oh yeah)

...and yeah I know I just brought an old-ass thread back from the dead...