Do not get me wrong, the FAA has a fine history of knee jerk / smoke and flames reactions, but this one is on congress. Plus you overlook how many people one airplane carries compared to your average car during rushour. Had the controls been hydraulic the pilots may have realised their mistake and correct. And as for the airlines firing someone for calling in fatigued, THAT’S ludicrous. For over 50 years, pilots turned to Richard L. Collins for his unique perspective on the challenges and rewards of flying light aircraft. With a turbine engine, engine anti-ice and if available, ice vanes extended, with a de-ice system wait until the correct amount of ice has formed.Basic flight skills seem to take a back seat to radio and restricted airspace.
The simulator training style which was initiated after we started to get simulators worked fine for passing a check ride, but is lousy for scaring us into avoiding the stall!Don’t get me wrong, I think simulators were, and are, a very good thing. Both were tired. Regional pilot training is outsourced to training organizations that may never step foot on the airline. Passengers in the rear section were still strapped in their seats.The autopilot was in control until it automatically disconnected when the stall warning stick shaker activated. Did Colgan Mislead the NTSB About Flight 3407? I’m curious if the plane is inverted in IMC and the disoriented pilot chooses to engage LVL, will the plane right itself? The training covers 250 hours and includes a twin and instrument rating. Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? Copyright 2011-2020, Sportsman's Market, Inc. The applicant may have flown Barons, KingAirs or Citations as Pilot In Command before an airline accepts the application. Minimum loss of altitude in a stall is good, but is not the only criteria. The remaining 41 passengers, as well as the crew members, were American.The last radio transmission from the flight occurred when the first officer acknowledged a routine instruction to change to tower radio frequency.
The FAA just stopped short of creating a matrix of commuting factors and how that might limit your Flight Duty Period. Contributing to the accident were (1) the flight crew's failure to monitor airspeed in relation to the rising position of the lowspeed cue, (2) the flight crew's failure to adhere to sterile cockpit procedures, (3) the captain's failure to effectively manage the flight, and (4) Colgan Air's inadequate procedures for airspeed selection and management during approaches in icing conditions.You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server.
The crash of a DHC-8-400 (Q400) on approach to Buffalo, N. Y. brought on the all-time most egregious case of smoke and flames rulemaking by the FAA. Capt. They said that an ice induced tail stall was most likely to occur when the initial flap extension is made at near the maximum flap extension speed & would result in a drop in nose attitude. There was also no mechanical issues with the airplane whatsoever, so I don’t know where you’re getting that from.I will happily turn this argument around. Last year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt identified the issue of pilot fatigue as a top priority during the Airline Safety Call to Action following the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in February 2009. It has always been my contention that airliner stalls should be taught out of descending turns. "But they knew what to do in the situation they faced that night a year ago, had repeatedly demonstrated they knew what to do, and yet did not do it. Report finds safety lapses, serious shortcomings in pilot training, wages in Colgan Air 3407 crash. Your understanding of how an aircraft stalls is also flawed.
Authorities say the Colgan Air crash has overall heightened the sense of awareness of these issues, but it will take a long time to implement the needed changes. Nose down and a stall is not often seen as a stall, training was with the nose up above the horizon, so brain dose not see the attitude as being a high speed nose down stall. One previous ferry flight (no passengers) crashed offshore of Massachusetts There were two Canadian passengers, one Chinese passenger, and one Israeli passenger on board. That makes sense.Already, regional airlines are retiring airplanes and cutting service.