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Old 23rd Jan 2011, 19:39
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Big Pistons Forever
 
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There is a great story of an age 59 1/2 Captain doing his final sim ride on the Crowd Killer before he retired. The TRE was a young hotshot and blew up one engine just as the captain was rotating. With the firebell blazing and all the bad red lights on the captain smoothly established the exact correct attitude while controlling yaw so that the aircraft heading never budged, with positive ROC established he called gear up and then leaned forward and started winding the clock on the panel. The attitude of heading never budged and after a few seconds of winding he calmly called for the engine failure/fire checklist.

The young checkpilot stopped the sim right there and demanded to what he was doing. The captains reply. "Son, nobody ever killed themselves winding the clock, but plenty of guys have killed themselves hurrying the emergency procedures ....."
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