XPost: rec.aviation.piloting
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
news:gl7v4m$6j$11@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
> the.sargon@gmail.com wrote in
> news:ee6cc075-b399-4bf8-8b42-950a970cfdd0@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
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>> With all my arguments against worrying about the dip, er, 'ditch'
>> switch I wonder of what benefit it would truly be in any condition
>> other dead level calm? Ditching at see would (I would think) most
>> often occur in conditions that would tear up the aircraft sufficiently
>> to make 'the Switch' totally useless.
>
> Well, experience has certainly proven this to be the case!
>>
>> In this particular case it appears, from reading an article early on,
>> that one or more pax may have partially opened a rear door and allowed
>> water ingress and this, more than anything, contributed to the tail
>> down sinking.
>
> Yeh, makes sense.
>>
>> It all comes down to basic necessities. I've had two high speed
>> parachute malfunctions and my first reaction was "what do I do to get
>> a chute open right f'ing now?" I didn't worry until after that
>> occurred as to wear I would land or what I would have for dinner. You
>> really have to experience something to realize the difference a 'real'
>> emergency will make in your focus. Failure to maintain that focus
>> results in the 'oh shit' moments.
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>
> Well, exactly, Even in the sim when a mad situation is thrown up where
> things are forgotten, such as checklist items, but the performance as
> whole
> was exemplerary, the crew get kudos, not a kicking. It encourages the kind
> of thinking that makes situations like this come out as they did.
>
>
> Bertie
>
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