[s-cars] Fw: Watch Narrow escape

[calvinlc at earthlink.net]

Nothing except the trees damn near bending over in the background around the
runway.  My beef was not with trying to approach at first, just continuing
below 200 feet or so when the plane is literally moving sideways in 100ft at
a time increments.
--Calvin

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Joe Pizzimenti [mailto:joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:55 AM
  To: calvinlc at earthlink.net
  Cc: Tom Black; s-car-list at audifans.com
  Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fw: Watch Narrow escape


  Life is all about options.  There's nothing I've found that says the
crosswinds started before his descent.

  Easy to criticize from behind a keyboard.  Thankfully, no one got hurt.

  Joe


  On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:37 AM, <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:

    OK, I have seen this video like 10 times and I must say that the pilot,
in
    my opinion, is a dumbass.  I'll wait for Hap to weigh in on this one,
but,
    here's the simple question: If you are 75 feet off the deck and 45
degrees
    off-line with the runway, do you...
    A) keep descending and hope the wind suddenly stops blowing and it
    straightens out
    B) try and go around again in similar conditions
    C) find an airport nearby with a runway that is not situated 90 degrees
to
    the stinkin' wind direction!!!

    In my world of values where my life is pretty high up on the list I
think C
    is better than B is better than A.

    A lot of people have looked at this and said what an amazing job the
pilot
    did.  Yes, he did, but that's like saying I was traveling 100 mph down a
    residential street and narrowly missed a kid who darted out in the
    street...boy am I a good driver.  I do not pilot large commercial jets
but
    this just seems like common sense to me.

    --Calvin





    -----Original Message-----
    From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
    [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Tom Black
    Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:40 AM
    To: s-car-list at audifans.com
    Subject: [s-cars] Fw: Watch Narrow escape


    Sorry NAC.......Something to think about on a Monday.

    Narrow escape

    Video:
    3 Mar 08: Pilots of a plane carrying hundreds of passengers narrowly
avoided
    catastrophe when their Airbus A320 tried to land in a storm.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1137942530/bclid1155254697/bct
    id1439799637



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