all right, my turn now
"great job", "congratulations to all", "well done", etc????? Come on guys, wake up and remove your shades
It looks to me that this once more a case where pilots have endangered a flight and then saved it :o Call'em heroes if you want, but don't forget one thing, pilots are (still) here to save the day and not to make the situation worse. The same was true of the AC story. Those deadstick landings were good (and extremely lucky
), but guess who first placed the aircraft in this situation:
- Air Transat, rumor has it of a fuel leak on one side, all the fuel dumped overboard thru the xfeed valve, great...
- Air Canada, aircraft refuelled with liters, indications in pounds and pilots not knowing how much they have...
- Aero Lloyd, gear down flight, fuel consumption relying only on the FMS (who cares about the fuel gages anyway?)...
Understand that those lines are not written to attack colleagues, but more to the point, to point out how quickly a highly trained group of professionals can be mislead by the circumstances, stress or just fatigue
