If you have to work damn hard at your current employer to remember not to land with the wheels up, um, you're doing it wrong.
Couldve also been an atc reroute that exceeded his fuel on board. That wouldve been my answer regardless of its thruthiness.
Uhh..he was VFR on a 60 NM route in a piston single.
Yep. And to expound on this, it's what I tell anyone who gives me a hard time about going "slow" with something. That extra (literally!) two or three seconds it takes to read a checklist versus just glancing at it is what it takes to trap the error.
The same principle can be applied to many things in flying. Taxiing like a bat out of hell versus a methodical, precise pace? I've timed it...the fast taxi saves approximately one minute at a large airport and virtually nothing at an outstation.
Rolling versus static engine runups? I've timed it...27 seconds.
Mumbling through the safety briefing like an auctioneer versus using understandable words? About 10-20 seconds.
Intersection departure versus full length? About 1-2 minutes, depending on circumstances.
Shutting down radios, pulling your headset off, cutting the mixtures, and rolling into the parking space with props stopped versus a "normal" shutdown? Maybe 5 seconds.
So you can either work your butt off, trying to cut every corner there is, and arrive in 48 minutes, or do things methodically "by the book" and get there in 51 minutes. I can say without a doubt, the pax don't know the difference.
Oh, and if you're running late? If you roll in 25 minutes late versus 28 minutes late, same deal...all the pax know is you're late. Rushing stuff ain't going to save you.
It might not be as fun or exciting to go slow, but I also have never taxied a perfectly steerable plane into the dirt, left without the correct paperwork, run a wingtip into a fence...or taxied away from the gate without enough fuel. Not to say anyone at my company ever has...multiple times...
Yeah, you don't need to do the super slow tAAxi, but a reasonable speed is more comfortable for the pax, easier on the tires, brakes, and landing gear, and safer. The only good reasoning I've ever heard for a rolling vs. static runup is that allegedly you'll suck less sand/gravel through the prop...I guess maybe that might make a difference when you're doing a runup every 25 minutes over the 2400 hours between prop overhauls... Color me skeptical though. In a commercial aircraft I am familiar with there is so little to check on runup that I can see doing it rolling not being a big deal. I do not think it seems like a very good idea to do it in something in the 402/Navajo class of airplane though.Yep. And to expound on this, it's what I tell anyone who gives me a hard time about going "slow" with something. That extra (literally!) two or three seconds it takes to read a checklist versus just glancing at it is what it takes to trap the error.
The same principle can be applied to many things in flying. Taxiing like a bat out of hell versus a methodical, precise pace? I've timed it...the fast taxi saves approximately one minute at a large airport and virtually nothing at an outstation.
Rolling versus static engine runups? I've timed it...27 seconds.
Mumbling through the safety briefing like an auctioneer versus using understandable words? About 10-20 seconds.
Intersection departure versus full length? About 1-2 minutes, depending on circumstances.
Shutting down radios, pulling your headset off, cutting the mixtures, and rolling into the parking space with props stopped versus a "normal" shutdown? Maybe 5 seconds.
So you can either work your butt off, trying to cut every corner there is, and arrive in 48 minutes, or do things methodically "by the book" and get there in 51 minutes. I can say without a doubt, the pax don't know the difference.
Oh, and if you're running late? If you roll in 25 minutes late versus 28 minutes late, same deal...all the pax know is you're late. Rushing stuff ain't going to save you.
It might not be as fun or exciting to go slow, but I also have never taxied a perfectly steerable plane into the dirt, left without the correct paperwork, run a wingtip into a fence...or taxied away from the gate without enough fuel. Not to say anyone at my company ever has...multiple times...