NewYorkophile
Fly Casual
Great read, with plenty to discuss and learn from.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash
AF447 Vanity Fair article
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Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
I thought it was an EXCELLENT article, like I wanted to stand up and applaud...but I'm sure the usual suspec...I mean Experts will be along shortly to excoriate him for suggesting that there might be a bit overmuch reliance on automation...
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Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
I can personally recommend A) Almost anything he's ever written, but B) Inside the Sky. It's a bit dated, now (written in the late 90s, IMS), but still beautifully written.
He's also former freight-trash, so, you know, even better.
I should add that Stick and Rudder is an excellent primer to this day for the junior birdman. Some of the terminology is a bit dated, and some of the topics discussed no longer really apply, but the man had a talent for explaining the nuts and bolts of flying airplanes in a direct, easily understood fashion, whilst somehow remaining a bit less dry and narcolepsy-inducing than an advisory circular.
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jynxyjoe
Queso King
Read the whole thing and loved it. Great job posting, thank you. I would have never come across it on my own.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
That's a good article.
William Langewiesche also wrote another Vanity Fair article on the Embraer Legacy and GOL 737 collision...
"the Devil at 37,000 feet"
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901
Also a good article!
William Langewiesche also wrote another Vanity Fair article on the Embraer Legacy and GOL 737 collision...
"the Devil at 37,000 feet"
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901
Also a good article!
Roger Roger
Paid to sleep, fly for fun
You, sir, have a terribly unjust safety culture.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
Seriously. In a proper, Just world, I'd probably be meeting the guillotine. Or at least a seawall!
Autothrust Blue
Did Not Grow Up
In the words of the AAMP guy, "I am so sorry! We made you this way!"
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I do believe this was one of the guys the NTSB came down on for the AAMP. 90 degree flip in sim sessions caused by wake turbulence + rudder for recovery applies for F4 Phanthoms. Not A300s.
typhoonpilot
Well-Known Member
Wasn't just the NTSB, it was both Boeing and Airbus. In Boeings case it was before the A300 accident. AA were warned and did not listen. Not to say the there isn't a lot of good info in the AAMP program, because there is. It's just they did not understand what the implication were for some of what they taught, specifically full opposite rudder deflections.
In regards to the Vanity Fair article, it is an excellent piece of journalism.
TP
seagull
Well-Known Member
Actually, he missed many aspects of the factual history of the accident. Several of his "facts" are actually wrong. He read it looking for a conclusion, kind of like many do with religious texts. He has some good information and is an excellent writer, but I do not think his conclusions were accurate. He missed it.
NewYorkophile
Fly Casual
Well?