It seems to me it was a real screw up. He had the glide
path wrong, and
everything else follows from there. How
could that happen with an experienced
pilot supervising? It
is like teaching somebody parallel parking. You tell
them,
first pull up parallel to the car in front of your spot.
Then cut the
wheel just so and start backing up... "No, you
cut the wheel too sharp!". "No -
you are not properly
aligned with the car in front!" Everything has to begin
just
so, with the wheel cut at the right angle, then the spin of
the wheel
when the nose of your car clears the tail of the
car in front... If you get
those elements just right, it's a
piece of cake. If you get off to a bad start,
you gotta
abort and start all over.
So the thing is, where was the
supervisor during all of
this? Were the instruments lying to them? But you can
sense
the right angle for the descent. You know you are going too
slow. That
is, if he was paying attention, or if he wasn't
confused about what craft they
were flying. There are going
to be a lot of questions about the pilot that was
responsible for training.
Gringo - not logged in. (It was also me who
introduced
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