'We were going to crash,'

Onkel Neal · 05-12-09, 11:36 AM

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I've never seen icing conditions. I've never deiced... I've never experienced any of that. I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls. You know I'd have freaked out. I'd have like seen this much ice and thought, `Oh my gosh, we were going to crash,' " she says eerily, just minutes before the plane in fact did crash. "I would've been fine," Renslow replied. "I would have survived it. There wasn't, we never had to make decisions that I wouldn't have been able to make but ... now I'm more comfortable."

It's scary to think there are pilots who are not confident flying under the conditions they find themselves.

Full story: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7560379&page=1

SteamWake · 05-12-09, 11:51 AM

A Dash 8 and ice

Id be scared too.

NealT · 05-12-09, 06:11 PM

Never been the Pilot in Command in ice myself...in fact I avoided it like the plague.

And yea, it's hard but you gotta stay focused on the flying...a moment's slip and it's all over...

Enigma · 05-12-09, 10:32 PM

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A Dash 8 and ice

Id be scared too.

Based on what? The Dash 8 is a very capable airplane in icing conditions...

bookworm_020 · 05-12-09, 10:45 PM

I think an air crash investigator summed it up "The ice will get you"

Morts · 05-13-09, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Enigma

Based on what? The Dash 8 is a very capable airplane in icing conditions...

there has been quite a few failures with the landing gear on the Dash 8 type
where the landing gear would mess up

Enigma · 05-13-09, 07:36 AM

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there has been quite a few failures with the landing gear on the Dash 8 type
where the landing gear would mess up

True. As for icing.....?

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SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	A Dash 8 and ice Id be scared too. __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

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NealT Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 2 Meters Below Jimbuna Posts: 1,060 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Never been the Pilot in Command in ice myself...in fact I avoided it like the plague. And yea, it's hard but you gotta stay focused on the flying...a moment's slip and it's all over... __________________

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bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I think an air crash investigator summed it up "The ice will get you" __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"