After just speaking to the crew....... Talk about bad luck......
They had an elevator/pitch jam too on the previous sector to Wagga, the commander had to come back and hand fly an RNAV, in icing conditions, with multiple Vref additives and nearly blew a tire on landing due to the high approach speed.
If that wasnt bad enough, on their CB chaser, an unscheduled feather on the #1 and the poor FO had to hand fly the bad boy OEI around a DME arc onto the VOR approach again in icing conditions !.
The 'FO' was actually quite a senior training captain who was in the RHS due to the current shortage of FO's which is very lucky as apparently he flew a near perfect profile descent on the arc - all worked out in his head, whilst hand flying in very challenging conditions !
Well done ! Sounds like a 2+ performance all 'round to me !
Good prep for cyclic 438!
Last edited by TopperHarley; 24th Jul 2006 at 00:52.