B737 - Manual Reversion
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Australia.
Next time you land it nicely in the simulator during manual reversion and get that warm inner glow (it's happened to me), ask the sim instructor to IP you back to about 2000 ft with some mild wind shear and turbulence and then see how easy it is.
By mild wind shear I mean a change in wind speed of say 10 kts and 30 degrees over 2000 ft with just some light chop. Nothing that you wouldn't experience on a fine sunny day.
I have seen one guy get it nicely to the flare, and then dig a wing tip into the ground and lose it completely. It all happened very quickly.
Our sim instructor had already advised us that from what he's seen, it'd be a good idea to perhaps get the cabin prepared for a possible evacuation incase you should ****** it up.
I remember thinking that that was probably over doing it and would only freak out the passengers unnessesarily. But after seeing this guy lose it in the flare so easily, I think I might take that advice after all if I should ever find myself flying on manual reversion for real.
We were flying the B737-400 simulator.
By mild wind shear I mean a change in wind speed of say 10 kts and 30 degrees over 2000 ft with just some light chop. Nothing that you wouldn't experience on a fine sunny day.
I have seen one guy get it nicely to the flare, and then dig a wing tip into the ground and lose it completely. It all happened very quickly.
Our sim instructor had already advised us that from what he's seen, it'd be a good idea to perhaps get the cabin prepared for a possible evacuation incase you should ****** it up.
I remember thinking that that was probably over doing it and would only freak out the passengers unnessesarily. But after seeing this guy lose it in the flare so easily, I think I might take that advice after all if I should ever find myself flying on manual reversion for real.
We were flying the B737-400 simulator.
