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Old 3rd Jun 2013, 02:32
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I appeared to have made my post almost at the same time as you. I am absolutely in agreement with your sentiments, armchair SLF who wouldn't know their ass from their elbow should stay on Facebook. The crew did a thoroughly professional job, just as you would expect of all of BA's crew, for that matter any reputable airline crew would have done a very similar job, it's what we train for.

Only in the sim expect to miss out at the minima, and have to do a different approach because the airport has just had a major lighting strike, and the slope guidance has failed, and on short final you get a landing gear fire warning, and after landing the right main gear collapses, unexpectedly and you then have to run through the evacuation CX list and carry it out.

A simple OEI approach in VMC (slightly complicated by a previous engine fire, ) is a bit of a yawn, it's what we all train for every six months.
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