Trust the instruments!!!!

[Linton]

Here is the clip:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=21qZPaCRSQI
Rather than looking out of the window at the rapidly approaching end of the runway this crew relied on their defective airspeed indicators.
The aircraft had been at this airfield for quite a while to have a crack in the fuselage repaired!

Originally Posted by Linton

Here is the clip:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=21qZPaCRSQI
Rather than looking out of the window at the rapidly approachin end of the runway this crew relied on their defective airspeed indicators.
The aircraft had been at this airfield for quite a while to have a crack in the fuselage repaired!

Its like the guys who blame their rolling off the TWY because of the AD or Taxi chart. Look out the window jackass, and stop blaming your stupidity/lack of control on a peice of paper!

[XabbaRus]

THat link takes you to some interesting videos.

[Linton]

They all look clean to me!

[Biggles]

The chances to survive an airplane crash these days are smaller than in the WWI era.....hm.....:hmm:

Anyway, sometimes, instruments are wrong, sometimes people are wrong, so try to make a mix, check for yourself, and then, check the instruments, or vice versa.

Originally Posted by Linton

They all look clean to me!

Perhaps that is what is so interesting.

[Oberon]

They fit windows to aircraft cockpits for a reason

[SUBMAN1]

Trusting your instruments is a real good idea, until your attitude indicator screws up for no reason, and you are flying at 20K feet, at midnight, in the soup (clouds). Makes for some hairy flying now doesn't it? It came back on properly in this case, but was cocked ever so slightly to the left for the remainder of the trip which lasted about another hour through decent to touch down. I am not sure a problem was ever found. Probably vacuum or gyro or something.

Not fun.

-S

PS. Goerge (The nickname we gave the autopilot) seemed to always know which way was up, but I was the one in control when the problem happened.