Flyman35 used one of the oldest tricks known to aviators. It is called airmanship. What is wrong with thinking outside the box? In my opinion we need more pilots like that in this day and age.
Sometimes normal line-pilots end up unknowingly being test-pilots.
Few examples are the United DC-10 guys in Sioux city, DHL A300 in Baghdad and British Airways 747 over Jakarta, though you can hardly compare those with a little Pack 2 fault.
I would like to know how the Virgin A340 partial gear extension landing in LHR would have ended if the crew had not used proper airmanship and altered the procedure to suit them? What was the Airbus reply to it? Well they amended the QRH. Well done boys.
Also why have pilots in the first place, if we are not supposed to use our brains. Airbus and the airlines could save a lot of money and have the ECAM checklist execute itself without pilot input.
Please think outside the box gentlemen!
Last edited by ALK A343; 10th May 2009 at 07:00.