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Old 19th Mar 2019, 05:55
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George Glass
 
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Excellent posts Aloha.
Having personally survived an "Airspeed disagree" event on a dark and stormy night I can confirm that the cacophony of warnings etc. (including simultaneous stick shaker and over-speed !) are startling to say the least.
And you dont have much time to catch it either.
Three things saved me that night:
1) Attitude and thrust, its all you've got, but it works.
2) The good fortune of working for a carrier that spent a lot of sim. time working on the non-normal checklist when it changed a few years back.
3) A ten thousand hour F/O who was priceless on the night.
Not sure that either crew in incidents were so lucky.
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