The only difference between you and the rest of us is you admit it. We're all distractible by nature. I meant what I said, anyone says "I'll never forget to leave the gear down", I'll make him or her forget. They might not talk to me afterwards, but they'll forget. I think if you keep this in mind and develop good habits you can live with this easily. There are old old guys who in thousands of hours never once forgot to put the gear down.
Hey at least they had their gear down!
I dunno. I trust myself to remember everything in GUMPS more than I trust myself to not miss a line on a written checklist when I'm dividing my attention between it and flying the airplane. It's not remembering the checklist so much as taking my eyes off the instruments or outside to look at it. The only way I can nearly guarantee to not skip a line is put my finger on it, which requires a third hand I haven't developed yet. I suppose an efb checklist would solve that, but then I'm giving up my approach plate.
Why do people think that?
No. My airline has close to 400 737s that fly to destinations in North, Central, and South American and the Caribbean from seven hubs in the CONUS. That's a lot of different routes. In almost seven years, I still haven't made it to all of the cities to which my airplane flies. Previously, in other airplanes, I've flown all over the word including five of the seven continents.
Ha. I had a longer post, but then just deleted it. I guess the maps didn't get deleted with the post.How did you generate those maps? Those are awesome.
(I thought that about 121 pilots but I admit I didn't think about it all that hard)
I hear that a lot on here. I never got an explanation why that is. It's true that an airline pilot will be constrained to the locations served by their company and also by their fleet, but like @Larry in TN said, that's quite a few airports. In the same vain, don't GA pilots generally stick to the same handful of airports? Maybe it's me, and I'm doing GA wrong, but I have the half dozen or so breakfast/$100 hamburger places, the airport near my kids, and I'll see some new airports when my wife and I take the plane for a getaway/vacation.
Really cool map! I will check it out
..well if we're playing that game, the last year or so of flights
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the great circle routes don't look as pretty as Sluggo's given the less epic distances
I stopped flying for a few years because I lacked a "mission" .. when I got back into flying I basically created missions, fancy word for an excuse to fly haha
No kidding? Read what you wrote. I’m laughing my butt off!!!!Never heard of someone lowering the gear early landing gear up. But obviously @Kritchlow knows better.
I know guys who lower the gear late who forgot to do so for one reason for another. I could forget 3 miles out, but I have lots more time to remember. Like I said, you seem have an inflated opinion of your opinion. Don't quite know why.
Wasn't it was his 4 year old grand son? That was a hard one. It would be difficult to keep going after something like that. I don't think id be able to fly again at any rate. IIRC he gifted a bunch of money to asi to make more of those videos.
I once did that in an RV. About 15 minutes down the road people were driving up beside us, rolling down their windows, and yelling “YOU’RE ON FIRE!!!” Got the brake fire put out, kept going, and a few miles later one of the tires exploded from the heat.
At age 85 or whatever it's pretty much all gravy.
Thanks for that link. Interesting that it encourages using distance from destination as the trigger for sterile cockpit, rather than altitude. Makes more sense for GA.
I once did that in an RV. About 15 minutes down the road people were driving up beside us, rolling down their windows, and yelling “YOU’RE ON FIRE!!!” Got the brake fire put out, kept going, and a few miles later one of the tires exploded from the heat.
Yes industrial safety is all about creating systems that keep humans from doing things that humans notoriously do. The fancy panels can probably tell you when you are less than 500 feet from the ground, but if you arent listening, what good is it? Having routines and rules and living by them has to be the answer to saving us from ourselves in this case. I have not seen an airliner land gear up, so we probably just need to copy those protocols as much as possible.I have never met Paul in person, but I know him very well online. I think if he can get distracted and land his Cardinal gear up, anyone can under the right circumstances. I have seen senior CFI's in a plane together, talking away, and land gear up with a rear seat passenger trying to get their attention to tell them the gear wasn't down. In the video, you could hear the gear warning horn blaring away. I'm in agreement with you -- know thyself!
Surprisingly, no. Like you said, hot brakes have a very distinct smell, so you'd think that at least somebody in the back by the brakes would have smelled it, but nobody did.
