RAFAT, so has the 145, however you can bring it back to life when on the ground by pressing the STAB button 4 times. Its designed that way to stop you frying the ground crew. The poor guy on the SAAB must have taken one hell of a hit, it happened to me about 5 years ago going into MAN from ABZ,

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INKJET, how/why does the lightening strike affect the Saab's steering in both tiller actuated and differential brake modes?

You guys don't know the day you were born. The ultimate experience is flying a clapped out old ex-Pan Am stovepipe 707-321 with ancient wax radar through the ITZ. Character building stuff. Anyone out there remember 'SL better known as Spread Legs.

RAFAT, not sure what you mean, the tiller/brakes+ landing gear are operated hydraulically,however they won`t operate with out the genny`s on(to much load on the batteries) unless selected to overide. From memory the flaps were also operated from the hydraulics, if you lost that lot it would be quite hard work relying on r/thurst to bring to a halt as the steering tends to have a mind of its own at low speed, sounds like the guys did well to control it on the ground, must have done some serious damage the SAAB`s a tough old bird.

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:) not impressed at all. :) :) try flying in africa without a radar,into a CB, and see what your windshields and radome look like afterwards. :) :) .this must be really big news here in europe. :)really lmao, :) :)

Nightflyer,
you also had the AVQ10???

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INKJET, I should have made myself a little clearer perhaps, but I ask because the GLA-LBA Saab was evacuated on the runway, so I just wondered why he wasn't able to taxi clear.

RAFAT, sorry i didn`t know the details

[ 19 July 2001: Message edited by: LICENTIOUS ]

INKJET .. dont hang these guys out to dry on a public forum. I am sure we will all know what went on when the ASR appears, maybe we should leave the ruminating till then ....

Never been hit by lightening but i bet it shakes u up....

HP don`t get me wrong, i`am 100% with these guys, lets be honest you don`t know how you will react in a tough spot until your there, it`s just an observation, its seems to me that most "hero`s" get shot!!.I`am just glad they all walked away. no offence meant

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RAFAT

HP any feed back through your reporting system as to what went wrong? we can all learn from this event.

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Thanks for the info. BTW, without taking this thread off the subject for too long, how is the pencil jet ?

3 pages on a lightning strike!!

God life must be dull over there for this to even rate a mention, let alone this volume of replies!!

RAFAT Life is good on the barbie jet+ you get home every night.

Kaptin M Thanks for your post.

Lets have some of that pilot S**T Mav

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alosaurus

both the app and area radars at Man are computer processed and the picture we are presented with has had all unwanted cluutter removed.Therefore it is virtually impossible to give you an accurate overall picture of the position of any weather returns because 95%+ of the weather returns have been removed electronicaly.Some very heavy returns do get displayed sometimes and it does no harm to ask