Speaking of A380s, there was a show on Smithonian channel called "Air
Disasters" which features various airliner/aircraft incidents. Yesterday
they featured a A380 with a crew of 3 that was on auto pilot when the
pilot brought his (9 ur old?) daughter and 15 yr old son into the
cockpit and he first let the daughter sit in the pilots seat and she let
her hands rest on the control yoke. Then his 15 year old son had his
turn. He did the same with his hands, but being stronger, he was able
to put more pressure on the yoke. That's when disaster struck as a
feature of the new A380 (and many other planes) kicked in -- when
pressure is put on the yoke for approx 30 sec part of the Auto pilot
becomes disabled. At that point the 15 y.o. teen was controlling the
rudder while the autopilot continued to (try to) control the rest.
Evidently this is a feature some commercial pilots like. At that point
the auto pilot tried to keep the plane on course by adjusting the other
controls. It appears the crew was not trained in this feature.
Eventually the plane began to roll while the son was still in the pilot
seat. But maybe forces kept him seated. So the situation continued to
deteriorate as the plane began to dive then roll and slow spin as the
crew tried to regain control - the pilot was seated once again.
Eventually they appeared to pull the nose up and stop the spinning, but
as the plane climbed they over-corrected and it was almost vertical when
it stalled. It appeared the auto pilot was still in partial control
during all of this which happened in approx 40 sec. All these maneuvers
used a lot of altitude and they ran into a mountain. The airline was
the Russian Aeroflot and they said that while what the pilot did was
technically illegal many did it. Hmmm. I pray American commercial
planes have a little better cockpit security.
It's amazing to see the amount of info they get from the cockpit recorders.
LarryT
91 300D
On 03/17/2017 4:59 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
They probably should have been further apart even if it wasn't a 380
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On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:44 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
Yes, but the smaller plane was no Piper Cub. It was a twin engine jet.
The air traffic controllers need to keep these things separated by more air.
There was only a thousand vertical feet between them when the A380 passed
overhead.
RB
On 17/03/2017 2:40 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
With a plane that big it takes a lot of thrust to keep it going which really
stirs up the air behind it.
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On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a5e80f3
RB
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