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| Thread ID: 59122 | 2005-06-22 04:12:00 | And now, for something completely stupid... | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 366064 | 2005-06-22 04:12:00 | The tale of two pilots on a joyride (www.guardian.co.uk), a story from the Guardian newspaper. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 366065 | 2005-06-22 04:27:00 | Stupid pilots. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 366066 | 2005-06-22 04:31:00 | But what was the type of plane? I want to try this in Flight Sim. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 366067 | 2005-06-22 04:36:00 | Yeah, but can you swap seats in mid-air in a sim? | vinref (6194) | ||
| 366068 | 2005-06-22 04:42:00 | Yeah, if the plane is multi-seat equipped. Informal research on the web leads me to believe it was probably a Canadair CRJ200. Must see if I can locate a FS version. :-) | Biggles (121) | ||
| 366069 | 2005-06-22 04:45:00 | But what was the type of plane? I want to try this in Flight Sim. Bombardier Canadair CL600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ 200-LR "Pinnacle Airlines celebrates 20 years and still climbing..." (Press release) However, gravity never fails. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 366070 | 2005-06-22 04:52:00 | Beat you to it Graham (see above). I guess that "LR" means long range. The Canadair site says: Each version is available with an engine modification that provides exceptional high-altitude, hot-weather airfield performance for increased payload and profitability. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 366071 | 2005-06-22 06:05:00 | Two commercial pilots and they couldn't pull out of a stall? At the maximum altitude? After all they weren't 10,000 feet above maximum, so why couldn't they recover? | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 366072 | 2005-06-22 06:41:00 | Two commercial pilots and they couldn't pull out of a stall? At the maximum altitude? After all they weren't 10,000 feet above maximum, so why couldn't they recover? They lost all power Winston, which may have lost them their hydraulics as well. It is also possible that they did recover from the stall but having lost power (and apparently couldn't restart the engines) they may not have had the glide range. Reminds me of that 747 with a full load of passengers that flew through the ash cloud from a volcano some years ago and lost all four engines. Their auxiliary must have kept going because they eventually restarted all four engines after gliding for some incredibly long time and made it safely to an airport, but they nearly ran out of height. Of course they probably were not American pilots, it was British Airways I think. No doubt somebody will Google it and put me right. Cheers Billy 8-{) :eek: Edit: Found the story Here (www.nw.faa.gov) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 366073 | 2005-06-22 06:42:00 | They were sitting in the wrong seats as they swapped mid-air? I bet there was more to this story, i.e., they were drunk, stoned, naked etc etc. You never know about these strange reports. You just don't expect them to tell the whole, embarrasing truth. |
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