artie
I gave you three examples of jets that had to land now...only they didn't and everyone died.
if I was flying over the pole and there was a massive fire in the cabin that couldn't be contained by the few hand fire extinguisher on board I know what I would do
what would you do just fly along waiting for everyone to die?
and if my ''route'' (gotta love it) was europe to australia I would damn well pull out some charts and take a look at things along the way. and in this modern world, I could just google some sat images of the terrain and take a look.
for many reasons I chose domestic flying, even though my airline certainly offers its large share of over seas flying.
and I even took out WAC charts and sectionals to familiarize myself with the world below me.
you can think ahead...that's what a professional pilot should be doing...and yes, some places you just have to say...sure hope I don't have to land down there.
there are two kinds of pilots...when faced with an emergency type one says: what do you think we should do?
the other says: this is what we are GOING to do.
so, fly along fat dumb and happy...type 1