I saw
JT's post earlier, about the runaway prop in the flare and just
HAD to go away and think about it over a few glasses of very high quality saki.
I thought about the fact that his FE had it sorted pretty much before the Capt and FO knew anything about it. I thought about how it might be for a two-crew, or even single pilot, operation. The more I thought about
THAT, the more saki I needed.
I couldn't see an upside to that situation. You would need to act very quickly, simply to maintain directional control, at a time when your airspeed is reducing quite rapidly. To be blunt and patently obvious, the situation had
NEVER occurred to me before.
Geez, you've maybe just shot the ILS to minimums, got visual and, at least subconsciously, you've started to relax a bit because you've just got away with another leg of the flight. Now, all of a sudden, you've got a runaway prop just as you're falring! Sheeeeeeit.
How much reaction time have you got? Certainly not enough to wind a clock first, tho I
DID enjoy the concept. Had
JT's FE not been right onto it, I can only wonder at what might have happened. Anyone else care to comment and, thereby, further enlighten this ignoramus?
How did I get this far with my career, without having given this aspect some thought? <img src="eek.gif" border="0">