AF1 executes a go-around and lands again. OMG!

I turned on the local ABC news station out of Wash. DC at noon and this was "Breaking News!" As soon as it was available they played footage of the plane landing safely so everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. Sensational journalism at its finest/sadest/etc.
 
poser765 said:
I have images of the cockpit conversation going something like this.

Pres "He can I do this one, guys?"
Pilot "Sure have a seat"
Pres "Wow. This is neat!"
Pilot "Easy, easy, touch of power, centerline, centerline, CENTERLINE, my plane!"
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Dude, you are on your game! I straight up bust out laughing about the golden showers, and my gf also after I told her about it too. Furthermore, we're both laughing at this comment!
 
Bigey said:
Dude, you are on your game! I straight up bust out laughing about the golden showers, and my gf also after I told her about it too. Furthermore, we're both laughing at this comment!
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Lol well I am glad I brought joy to someone. Thanks.
 
It is so ridiculous how they make such an extraordinary deal about such a small thing. The media undoubtedly thinks that a go around is like a "OH EM GEE PULL UP BRO WE R ABOUT TO CRASH" scenario, they don't understand it is a very routine, controlled procedure. It looks like these huge news stations would actually have contact with an ACTUAL aviation expert, not some of these people who are supposedly experts but say some of the dumbest things ever. I would have so much more respect for a news station that actually could do some accurate aviation reporting.
 
Maybe the controllers were sleeping again and this is a cover up to try to help the faa save face?

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Now that he's gone I can say my facility hosted HMX-1, the President's helicopters and crews, for the week. They do some great work and run a mind boggling operation. Great bunch of guys and gals with some pretty interesting stories.

Also, the infamous go-around happened right outside my window. Simply terrifying.
 
MikeD said:
You're damn lucky to be alive. You'd better realize that. This could've been something serious. :D
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I know... and I didn't get a chance to tell Obama that just yesterday I did an instrument approach to the exact same runway and DID NOT have to go around. He sucks, I win, the end.
 
Ian J said:
I know... and I didn't get a chance to tell Obama that just yesterday I did an instrument approach to the exact same runway and DID NOT have to go around. He sucks, I win, the end.
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Did HMX have the VH-60, or the VH-3 there with them?
 
They had their 60s and 46s. Got a tour of the 60s... surprisingly unimpressive. However, I heart their rotor-brake.
 
Ian J said:
They had their 60s and 46s. Got a tour of the 60s... surprisingly unimpressive. However, I heart their rotor-brake.
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We don't have rotor brakes either in our birds.

I would've thought your "surprisingly unimpressive" comment would've been directed to the -46s! :)
 
Muff3n said:
It is so ridiculous how they make such an extraordinary deal about such a small thing. The media undoubtedly thinks that a go around is like a "OH EM GEE PULL UP BRO WE R ABOUT TO CRASH" scenario, they don't understand it is a very routine, controlled procedure. It looks like these huge news stations would actually have contact with an ACTUAL aviation expert, not some of these people who are supposedly experts but say some of the dumbest things ever. I would have so much more respect for a news station that actually could do some accurate aviation reporting.
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If you have had 1 flight lesson that makes you and expert at some stations...
 
The White House and Federal Aviation Administration say it was a routine maneuver where the pilot was in the process of landing

Reporters on the plane say they were not aware that the landing maneuver — which is called a "go around" — was happening.

Am I the only one who who thinks this is in sharp contrast to the go around that happened a few weeks back, where the sky was falling?
 
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