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Originally posted by piratenews:
It was the last scheduled flight for the 747 pilot before mandatory retirement. Good thing he learned to fly a glider.

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Originally posted by out2theblack:

Real pilots and astronauts can deadstick their flying machines when the chips are down ; like a leaf on the wind , like a downy feather...Or , like a Simonized brick , in the case of the Space Shuttle or Serenity.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Yah, learning at least the basics of glide-flight is a right useful skill for any pilot.

-F

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Originally posted by piratenews:


Gliders are great for national security. That's how Nazi Germany trained its fighter pilots and engineers during the ban on military training and manufacturing.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Actually I *CAN* deadstick an ultralight with a piss poor ratio, and land the bloody thing, although "land" is kinda generous for it, as Rue points out with autorotation - thanks be I am my own mechanic.

There's a certain beauty to the dominator though, it's so unbelievably light (thanks in part to the geekfarm, yay for carbon fibre!) that I can damn near VTOL the takeoff, and with a decent wind going, can throttle down and "hover", or even point the nose up slightly and do this gentle retrograde which is like the coolest thing ever - and of course, my stop-n-drop landing trick, borrowed from the Fiesler-Fi 156.

The GT-400UL, not so much, although it will *DO* it, as I said "land" is a damn generous term for what really happens...

-F

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