EXPERIENCED PILOT
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(US Airways Flight 1549)
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Haha, very true!
Yeah, I was like Plane Fail, EPIC WIN for the pilot.
Or ” Airbus – When not buying american saves your ass”
But you can’t get experienced without going through the state “noob”
His ‘noob’ time was handled by USAAF… and they’re VERY good at removing noobness…
Has he been around THAT long? USAAF?
No… sorry… that’s me…
[LINK] Capt. Sullenberger’s profile
40 years’ experience
Joke recognition fail.
The USAAF was the name for the Air Force during the WWII-era (standing for United States Army Air Force).
I thought it was called the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Wiki to the rescue: The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the predecessor of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) from 1926-41, which in turn was the forerunner of today’s U.S. Air Force (USAF), established in 1947. Although abolished as an organization in 1941, it existed as a branch subordinate to the USAAF from 1941-47.
Sake! Are they going to do the plane landing thing to death or what?
My thoughts, exactly! It may be that good news stories are rare because whenever we get any, we beat the crap out of them.
[LINK] to the LOL I made, in that vein, sort-of.
That’s gold, rho – just gold!
Glad you like it.
Oh, silly mortal, you think they’ll stop at DEATH? This thing’s rotting corpse will be thrown around like last year’s Bush bashes or this year’s “Obama Epic Win.”
Figure it won’t last nearly as long as the Obama fanboying (nothing against Obama, in fact, I very much hope he’ll do well as he’ll be my boss starting tommorow, but yeesh! If you could kill a man with kindness, Pundit Kitchen woulda gotten tackled by the Secret Service a month or two ago)
Gotta agree with the lol. Now if only air travel as a whole were worth the hassle.
Depends on how badly you want or need to get from point A to point B reasonably quickly/cheaply, I guess? (I do find it well worth the hassle, which I don’t find very big, compared to some alternative forms of travel.)
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Hm. This post feels slightly pointless. Or maybe not. The thread is quite small, still, so I’ll press “Add comment” anyway.
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Yay, spam! ;P
i prefer driving, but we tend to get up to hijinks that are worth it on the trip, like following a group of suited men in a blacked out bus out of Roswell to the middle of nowhere.
Oh, car trips can be great fun.
However, when you have a limited amount of vacation days, and want to spend it with relatives or something like that, I think it’s well worth shortening the time spent just getting from point C to point D. (Yes, I am referring to my latest Christmas-experience, where we ended up spending about 10 hours total travelling instead of about 40, thanks to the majik of air travel, and thanks to going “fornicate the environment”. 
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Hmpf. I don’t approve of the ” : + P ” smiley becoming such a happy face.
Here try (_!_)
But there’s no tongue there!
Ah, but European airports might just be a bit less…taxing…than those in the US. We’ve moved to the Kafka school of customer service now!
It may be so, yes. Heathrow can have rather long queues, but they move at a decent pace. Or. Well. Since I know that the passport lines there can be a bit dull, I make sure to have some red wine on the inflight. It helps.
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Wow. The smileys are getting worse. *sigh*
loved my trip to england, but heathrow was the worst airport experience i’ve ever had. granted we were probably at the worst of the terminals, but still le sigh…I suppose i’m just not used to flying because i come from a big family. i would rather spend an extra day travelling and have hundreds of extra dollars to spend than give in and take a plane.
Heathrow…. Grrrrr…….
That’s where i learned that they don’t have the same amount of Air Conditioning over there. seriously who thought it was a good idea to jam large amounts of people in a hot room with no fans even :<
Oh, I’m more PO about the lack of concern for the environment… But yeah, no air con’s dire…
oh i’m sure there’s other problems. I was just….talking >.> i don’t know nything about the place besides me own experience there
Heathrow always reminds me of the shift change in the film ‘Metropolis’… just with the added value of mewling children and Burger King.
There is Bombardier, at least.
I was quite fortunate to be flying at an odd time of day. My intended flight was cancelled, I had to be rerouted, and whilst Virgin’s queue for reticketing was deadly I breezed through T4 effortlessly – at 1500 on a Monday.
I think also, if you aren’t a EU citizen, the passport check bit is way more terrible than for us on the inside. Last time we flew on Heathrow (usually it’s Stansted for us) we walked past what seemed to be about, roughly guesstimated, half a million Really Forn People waiting for the nastier passport check, to our line which was like ten minutes.
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And yeah, we only fly if we get cheap tickets. Then it can be way cheaper to, say, fly to London than to take the train to Stockholm.
ah there’s another thing. Europe is more….compact than the US. It just takes longer to drive places because the twisty turny little roads. where as I can (and have) travelled from the southern part of the US to the northern center in a day’s time. It took about the same amount of time to drive from the western to eastern coast of england (though the driver was idiotic and took a million backroads to avoid just a little bit of traffic)
And of course crossing the Atlantic last week would have been an awful chore. Take one step and come up for air, take another step and come up for air……
I pay extra to bring luggage aboard… I’d gladly trade the luggage for an older experienced pilot/copilot like Sully!
SAFE LANDING
No terrorists involved.
You do have to admit, out of the number of planes that break apart on landing in water, its actually surprising to see one land properly… in water.
Most planes that have had to ditch have been at far higher speeds, and for various reasons (hydraulic/electric etc) couldn’t use devices to get the speed down. Sully ditched it at a relatively low speed, a beautiful angle and on very flat water.
The ditch is something that plane designers have kept in mind – it’s just that (as a generalisaton) by the time one has to ditch one’s plane, too many other things have gone wrong. [Click for how it normally goes]
Indeed!
How the hell is this funny? Sometimes this site is real gay.
Projecting a bit, are we now? It’s ok. The sooner you come out of the closet, the sooner the healing can begin.
That’s a very liberal view there Frou…
*doesn’t need the flame retardant shields, lived with his mother’s ‘look of death’ to be vulnerable to a Texan*
I pride myself on keeping at least one liberal view as a pet.
Judging by its bright eyes, wet nose and glossy coat, you look after it well
Please, what does the “gay” mean in this context? Seriously, I still haven’t heard a sensible explanation to the more precise meaning of the word used like this, and would like to hear one.
It’s sort of a modern youth parlance thing for being a type of retard… It comes from the Judeo-Christian view that homosexuals are, somehow, a damaged, sub-human species. I’d not sweat it, since it’s usually used by neotenous loons, 12 year old who’re just getting over or are in the midst of a same sex crush, or just plain mouth breathing frat boys who want to feel manly…
Ah. I don’t think I’ve come across the idea that homosexuality would imply lower intelligence before. That was a rather unknown stereotype/prejudice/wossname to me, so thanks for that explanation.
(Oh, I gave my intelligence elitism away there. You wrote “sub-human”, I thought “lower intelligence”. Oops. I guess.)
It’s not just a “modern youth parlance” thing. It’s actually a resurgence of the way “youth” used it in the late 70s and early 80s (when I was one of dem der youths).
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So here ya go:
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Gay (adj.) – lame , girly, frilly, opposite of cool. Often used in reference to something done merely for attention. Pointless. Ex.: “This site is so gay. Let’s go watch Colbert.”
It’s only made its way from the third world to the UK in recent years…
May I add 6 year olds who want to sound like the cool 12 year old next door.
“what does the “gay” mean in this context?”
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It means anything that an ignorant dumb-ass doesn’t like. The best example I can think of is on the Simpsons where Nelson Muntz (the bully kid) was briefly dating Lisa. His buds found out and were giving him a hard time about it. One of them (I think Jimbo) said, “You kissed a girl??? That is SO GAY!!”
Oh yes, I remember that funny line.
Trying to make sense of “gay” as an invective I assumed that that one was just related to the stereotype of homosexual men being somewhat feminine in behaviour. I just couldn’t figure out any context for this site. It’s not particularly prone to any of the gay-stereotypes I am aware of, I mean.
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Thanks for your help.
(And that doing things like kissing is stereotypically seen as a girl thing for little boys and little bullies, I should have added.)
You’re just fighting the feeling… you want to feel stubble against your cheek, and the feel of manly hands on your quivering flesh… I can tell…
Grr. That kind of talk is hard on the chastity. (think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts ..)
Just imagine if McCain and not Obama had been elected . . how many would have died here
because surely it was the power of Obama’s change that made this work. Not the premium ditch conditions, the experienced pilot, the work of the radio techs, or the people on the ground.
Obviously it was all dependent on the President ELECT and the senator that ran against him this year.
And people wonder why i’m misanthropic
Well trolled, my friend. Well. Trolled.
“Just imagine if McCain and not Obama had been elected . . how many would have died here”
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Mainly because the Palinator would have shot them from a helicopter.
Ah, yet another butt hurt Republican…
I hope that pilot gets a raise.
I have only been on a plane two times in my life, I understand the two floaty things that came out of the front of the plane but what the heck are all of the people on the middle left of the plane standing on, looks like they are walking on water which would be really cool, but I doubt is happening
A wing?
*guesses wildly*
That would be ‘the wing’
They’re all right-wingers, too. XD
Ba-dum-KISH!
He’ll be here all week, folks. Unless we shoot him.
You can see where the wing is, if you look closely enough; the water is totally smooth in the shape of it. Of course, not being able to see in 3D to begin with,
I’m not easily fooled by optical tricks as this probably is for normal-sighted
people, either.
Unless Jesus came back as multi-tuplets, and they all happened to be on
the same plane at the same time.
That would explain none of them dying in the plane crash, actually.
Jesus can land on water?
Tbh, i’m kinda surprised it took this long for the whole “standing on water” bit to get posted, that was the first thing i noticed! XD
I thought of that after I posted, but it looks like they are lined up parallel with the plane, maybe its just the angle of the picture or maybe im just blind and/or stupid
I think its because it’s also just underwater :megreen:
that’s
Give the pilot a medal
Not to mention Union Members! Unions saved the day:
Pilots
Flight Attendants
Tug boat crews
NYPD
NYFD
All union members.
If they were not unionized, the whole thing would have been a huge disaster!
No way to know that for a fact, really. From what I understand, most instances of a plane trying to land somewhere other than a runway DO turn out to be disasters, unions or not.
Just imagine if Sully decided it was over his pay grade (at more than 50% less than prior to 9.11.01). “An emergency? They don’t pay me for this. Maybe we’ll hit something soft…”
I hate this boring crappy crap.
Excellent… we must make more to upset you…
yeah, worth a good salary, but people who fly aren’t willing to pay enough to support that salary.
“Experienced pilot: worth the salary”, you say? He makes less than a McDonald’s manager!