Many years ago I was a pax on a Aviogenex B737-200 scheduled service that did a 360 on final approach at an estimated 300 ft.
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Originally Posted by LookingForAJob
(Post 10633875)
I'm not a professional pilot BUT....how is that possible? I mean, no PAPIs or aiming point makings!
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This is how to do a low flypast.
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Still love this one here for all eternity <3
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Originally Posted by sabenaboy
(Post 10633894)
It's simple:
- Any airline pilot who is NOT able to do that should not be in the cockpit. - Any airline pilot who would do that with passengers in the back, should not be in that cockpit. |
Originally Posted by Check Airman
(Post 10634223)
What does the presence or absence of pax have to do with it? Is the manoeuvre safe or not? Making a 360 with 30 degr bank at 100ft or 500ft is the same manoeuvre , the aircraft does not behave differently , as long as you have wingtip clearance you can even do it lower.. because the aim here was I believe to avoid being shot at ... |
Originally Posted by Toruk Macto
(Post 10633787)
Some real skills , my guess ex military or crop duster , highly unlikely to have been a MPL . |
Originally Posted by ATC Watcher
(Post 10634235)
No difference I agree, and having learned the local situation there by now, making a 360 at 100ft instead of higher or worse a go around above land/city, yes, this was definitively a safer option .. with or without pax .
Making a 360 with 30 degr bank at 100ft or 500ft is the same manoeuvre , the aircraft does not behave differently , as long as you have wingtip clearance you can even do it lower.. because the aim here was I believe to avoid being shot at ... |
Originally Posted by Rarife
(Post 10634237)
Is not MPL quite a new thing? Why is everyone who is not flying for 40 years considered to be super bad pilot here? This is getting out of hand.
There are still some good pilots flying, this video just celebrates an era when it was more the norm than the exception to be able to capably fly a machine manually. |
Originally Posted by beardy
(Post 10634248)
We do not know that not being shot at was the aim. It's an assumption.
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And this thread will be written in the Bibliography of PPRuNe as The Great Masturbation Topic, Slightly Myopic.
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Originally Posted by JanetFlight
(Post 10634214)
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Originally Posted by FlightDetent
(Post 10634307)
And this thread will be written in the Bibliography of PPRuNe as The Great Masturbation Topic, Slightly Myopic.
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Perfectly safe. Easier to do in a prop than in a 727. Used to do it on the P3.
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Brilliant! The snowflakes of the magenta line might be getting their panties in a wad, but this guy can at least fly the aeroplane.
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Originally Posted by OldnGrounded
(Post 10634340)
Masturbation with self-congratulation. There oughtta be a word for that. 😎
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Narcissurbation?
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Originally Posted by Herod
(Post 10634393)
Narcissurbation?
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Originally Posted by OldnGrounded
(Post 10634402)
Herod wins the Internet!
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....49117c651d.jpg |
From the 'Cargo Pilots in a Boeing' airshow department at a collegiate aviation safety event earlier this year in Janesville, Wisconsin. They went down below 50 feet radar altitude with the wheels up on the low pass.
Both pilots got fired. :eek: And the cockpit video taken by the jumpseat rider has been taken down from YouTube. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e11ac65f53.png https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....424a585929.png |
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At the risk of sounding critical.... I did wonder why the pilot wouldn’t climb say another 100 feet to give himself a greater margin of safety. I’m sure we could all do a 360 @ 100 feet, or maybe even 75, but why erode your margins? If SAMS are such a threat, I would have thought RPG’s that are more plentiful would be a greater threat?
*caveat* I have never operated in a war zone ,and so am asking the questions for information purposes. |
The lower one is over the sea the closer one is to birds.
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Originally Posted by Cool Guys
(Post 10633291)
Some years ago...
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nice one, beardy.
---- For information purposes :) did they arrive for the first approach flat at 100 feet, ekranoplan style? FWIW, solen from a post above I wouldn't bet my pink ass on that theory but the approach is fun as hell and that's the real reason we fly it. |
Originally Posted by beardy
(Post 10634448)
The lower one is over the sea the closer one is to birds.
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Originally Posted by what next
(Post 10634463)
If I remember correctly Capt. Sullenberger's Airbus flew through that flock of geese at around 3000ft... That guy here was obviously perfectly able to fly at 100ft, so why climb to where the Canada Geese will bring him down ;)
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Originally Posted by ShyTorque
(Post 10634168)
Sign of the times?
Within three decades I predict we'll be in the same postion on our roads I suspect. The future isn't bright, it's automated... |
Originally Posted by Sick
(Post 10633185)
As any navy pilot would tell you, it is very very easy to accidentally fly into the sea, even in perfect visual conditions. 360 at 100' in a 727, no HUD - one moments inattention or look inside and it's over.
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There are many who can do a 360 at 100 ft but very few with the gonads to do it ( especially in a 3 eng airliner ) That’s what’s impressive .. |
Originally Posted by krismiler
(Post 10634198)
This is how to do a low flypast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igF1X48ddWA Now if those guys had been weaving through the hills of Scotland, I would say they had a point . But a fly past! |
At least DT didn't have any of the company's directors onboard at the time.
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Capt Steyl in action in 2013
Here is another video of Captain Steyl’s African cargo flying and post flight relaxing... |
Originally Posted by NISHTA
(Post 10634737)
Here is another video of Captain Steyl’s African cargo flying and post flight relaxing... YouTube.com/watch?v=SzK153FQg1Q |
15 years ago, or thereabouts, I was occupying the jumpseat on an A300 freighter going into Baghdad which, at that time, was a rather unpleasant area to be overflying in a civilian aircraft. If I remember correctly, the approach was made from 10.000 ft fully configured, then dive for the numbers. As we started the descent the flaps had not come all the way out yet which, despite having the engines in idle, resulted in the airspeed creeping upwards. As we crossed the piano keys the skipper called for a go-around an took controls. I was expecting an "up we go, position for another approach from 10K feet" scenario, but that didn't happen. Oh no. We tracked the runway at around 100 foot and, nearing the end, entered a steep left-hand bank going behind (and below the cab of) the tower, to track the opposite runway. Aunt Betty was moaning loudly (bank angle, pull up, too low - terrain; the whole nine yards) and, from the vantage point of a raised jump seat behind the skipper, it felt like the ground couldn't have been more than an uncomfortably low number of meters away from the wingtip. We reached the end of the parallel runway and did another 180 to the left, still at 100ft. Touched down and taxied to the ramp for unloading.
Sometimes situation dictate embracing techniques and procedures that are about as far removed from a 10 mile ILS descent as you can imagine. But if that's all you've done in your professional life, it makes perfectly sense why some are baulking at the idea. At the end of the day it's down to skills and training. If you operate in an environment where maximum use of automatics is SOP, then this would be akin to suicide. But if you operate at an airline which gives you all the room you want to take tactical decisions which suits the environment, then you're quite comfortable switching off A/P, A/T and FD at 10.000 ft on a sunny day flying into a not too busy airport. Sadly, a large and growing number of airline have all but banned manual flying above 500ft AGL. |
Originally Posted by hunterboy
(Post 10634434)
At the risk of sounding critical.... I did wonder why the pilot wouldn’t climb say another 100 feet to give himself a greater margin of safety. I’m sure we could all do a 360 @ 100 feet, or maybe even 75, but why erode your margins? If SAMS are such a threat, I would have thought RPG’s that are more plentiful would be a greater threat?
*caveat* I have never operated in a war zone ,and so am asking the questions for information purposes. |
There was a quick woop woop. Might have been my limit. But that was cool.
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It will change again in the future when people think and realize that flying a proper aircraft like a 727 or a DC9 had such good manual handling characteristics to teach us our business. Actually the Airbus, a light 319 in particular will handle quite nicely. Autopilot off, Flight Directors off, Speed push..One night, into ORD, for 10L I think, Aeroflot landed ahead of us, and stopped on the runway. Tower quickly said (at about 300 AGL) "A..#### can you accept a sidestep to 9R?" I said sure."Cleared to land.09R." 3 items above, bank left, bank right line up on new runway. F/O looked a bit surprised, and I didn't have time to brief it. |
When that airplane and that skipper were a lot younger this would not have raised an eyebrow anywhere in the industry. He flies like that because he flies like that. There was a time when we all did. Because we had to. Bush flying will always be there to some degree, but it has ceased to be the training ground it once was for airline pilots, and modern navigation and approach aids have all but eliminated the need for stick and ruddering a big airplane close to the ground without a runway under it. Those days, and those hard won skills are never coming back because there is so little need for night circling approaches, offsets and timed two seventys hardly anyone knows what they are anymore. The game has changed, and very much for the better in my opinion. Those in the front seats today don’t need to kick the thing around. They need to outsmart it.
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Guys don’t you think this thread has to be the most entertaining we have read on PPRuNe for quite a while? The op’s intention was to chastise bad practice but instead we’ve got a real feel for African flying and seat of the pants raw skill. Its great to see everyone rallying up and posting clips and anecdotes. We’re all a bit jaded with pickle forks and maxes. Flying has to be more fun than punching in a route in the fms. |
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