DuncanF
23rd May 2003, 18:57
I was outside the office just now have a quick puff watching a BA 744 line himself up for landing at LHR and I thought: do you pilots ever get sweaty palms/racing pulse when you're putting the thing on the ground? Or taking off for that matter?
Intrigued.
Duncan
Genghis the Engineer
23rd May 2003, 19:14
Can't speak for people who fly big jets, but as somebody who flies little aeroplanes - yes.
Or at least I have been known in adverse conditions to get moderately stressed before and during a landing. Alternatively if I feel like that before a take-off, I generally don't bother and go away and think about what's worrying me. (Except of-course before a test, in which case everybody's nervous before take-off except the examiner).
As a wise man once said - take-offs are always optional, landings are usually mandatory.
G
OzExpat
23rd May 2003, 21:22
I usually worry more about take-off because it means that me next G+T is some 8 hours away. Each landing reduces that period... :D