> I once witnessed an Aeroflot jet on approach to KSEA that had an > alignment problem actually horse the jet into a 45 degree bank, haul it > about a quarter mile to the west to get on the right approach. Freaked me > out on the ground just watching it. I don't want to think about what > those poor passengers were going through. :)
Reminds me of my flight into Bologna last year in one of go's (now Easyjet) latest 737-300s -- there was a period of about 10 minutes when we never flew straight. But they eventually managed to get the thing aligned, and we did fly the last couple miles in a straight line... Mind you, it's not normal on a passenger flight to see the lit runway in its full glory head-on from a passenger window, but that time we did... > There's an old joke that goes something like this: > > Aeroflot Pilot: "My, these American runways are VERY short!" > CoPilot: "Yes, but look how incredibly WIDE they are!" "Yuri, what do you think, is that the phone box marked on the map? Damn, a cloud has just got in the way..." -- Aeroflot navigator on board a Tu-134... or Il-76 for that matter! Andras =========================================================================== Major Andras e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://andras.webhop.org/ =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel