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Old 18th Jul 2020, 06:47
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..........that it might well be difficult to judge height over the water visually, particularly at a high rate of descent.............
............awareness of height illusion when flying over a horizonless seascape.......
I don't know about other pilots, but when I fly visually, I still refer to my flight instruments: Thrust, speed, altitude, Rad Alt, V/S, and pitch - and gear and flap status, as well as looking out the window.

Does the ATR not have a Rad Alt? I am sure it has at least two altimeters.


Regarding the bird strike, please check my schoolboy French, but I think bird is "oiseau", and water is "eau". Could this have been a mis translation or a misheard word?. "We have hit the water" might have been heard or written as "we have hit the bird"?
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