True. But at least this one didn't have the phrase "alcohol was involved"...
Sadly gear up might have saved their lives.
Agree, you can't see them, but it was moving very fast. Until I saw the video, I didn't realize how big of a fall this was.
But seeing as neither pilot had likely been to school on the Falcon, they had no clue that they were doomed before they touched down.
And have working anti-skid....
Gonna guess that nobody from the FAA knew about this.
Because the FAA down there looks the other way.
I don't think the local FSDO (let alone the owners!) knew anything about it, though. That said, most of the stuff I witnessed was a lot more innocuous.So there's no chance it could've stopped without the anti-skid? You'd figure even someone who was typed for SIC would have known that. Though I am but a lowly PPL talking out of my hindquarters.
An SIC type rating is a paperwork exercise. "Familiarization" is all the sustems training that's required, and no specific knowledge level is required to be demonstrated to get the paper.
Oh boy. I figured SIC was at least some sort of systems exam or similar. That's insane if they literally had no chance. Preliminary says the only thrust reverser deployed and flaps, slats and speed brakes were deployed.
Yep. This situation is pretty egregious - especially if the FAA knew it was going on - but it's telling that I'm not particularly surprised. I think I've mentioned it before on a different thread, but there's a charter owner from my old neck of the woods that would routinely ferry his Challengers around single pilot. Why pay a day rate on a qualified crew if the plane wasn't generating revenue, you know?
The company I worked for was mostly on the up and up, but like the other small 135 operators in the region we were loose with some of the regs. Rolling rest, looking back to determine hard time off, actual weights required but never weighed a single bag - etc etc. Typical 135 crap, at least at the time. Our POI was well aware of all of it, but didn't care as long as the paperwork was right. On one of my last 299 rides (captain line check) before selling my soul to the airlines, as usual our POI wanted to observe as we did the preflight. And as always he'd ask us to point to the scale we used for weighing luggage. He looked at the box and said, "Kayoh, you've been showing me that scale for years and years, and I bet it still has the plastic wrapped around it."
"Hmmm...I dunno. I've never opened the box before." And then we'd have a big laugh.
My FO at the time was new - I think he about crapped his pants when he heard my comment. Welcome to 135, kid!
So basically I could get one. That's astounding if he just flew the thing off the end of the runway because he literally didn't know he couldn't stop in that distance.
You don't even need a specific amount of time. All you need is 3 full stop landings and a some form of engine out training. I got my first SIC in about a 1.3 HR flight. You also need familiarization training, something similar to ground training and that's about an afternoons worth of time.