Originally Posted by SNS3Guppy
In fact, Sully noted that glider experience (to hark back to the general aviation discussion before) was the source he tapped when making his forced landing.
I just read Sully's book and I thought I read that he said his previous gliding experiences didn't really help becuase they were so different, and that in fact it was his thousands of hours of honing his energy management on jets that helped.