Get yourself a plane and pilot's license and see for yourself.And a picture of taxiway and runway from above. How the hell he miss the huge numbered runway.
Get yourself a plane and pilot's license and see for yourself.
That's an odd statement. Are you saying if I were to get a license and plane and land at that airport on 20L runway I will see why he landed on the taxiway? Eh, no thanks I'll just wait for the accident report that is unless you are paying for lessons and a plane . BTW that was a rhetorical question.
Yep. Everything is easy when you're in an armchair scratching your balls.I think he's saying you should try seeing how easy it is to actually identify the runway from above and out a ways.
Yep. Everything is easy when you're in an armchair scratching your balls.
Flying a light aircraft into a large airport, roughly equivalent to riding a skateboard through a shipping dock with semis and forklifts constantly pulling in and out, is slightly more complicated than rolling out of bed. There are runways of different sizes going all different ways, including parallel to each other, and you have to line yourself up with the one that a guy on a staticky radio tells you to when you're around five miles out. You also have to just get to the ground without dying, which is made harder than usual by the huge vortices that are set up every time one of those large planes takes off or lands. Anyone that has driven a motorcycle or a tiny car on the interstate around semis has a faint idea of what those vortices are like. ATC does its best to keep small planes away from the larger ones and on the less busy runways, but it's still hairy. Accidentally landing on a taxiway is not good but it is hardly unheard-of.
Yep just as a thought a condescending if you're not a pilot you can't have an opinion post. And then we get a lecture as if no one else knows anything about aviation.
Yep. Everything is easy when you're in an armchair scratching your balls.
Flying a light aircraft into a large airport, roughly equivalent to riding a skateboard through a shipping dock with semis and forklifts constantly pulling in and out, is slightly more complicated than rolling out of bed. There are runways of different sizes going all different ways, including parallel to each other, and you have to line yourself up with the one that a guy on a staticky radio tells you to when you're around five miles out. You also have to just get to the ground without dying, which is made harder than usual by the huge vortices that are set up every time one of those large planes takes off or lands. Anyone that has driven a motorcycle or a tiny car on the interstate around semis has a faint idea of what those vortices are like. ATC does its best to keep small planes away from the larger ones and on the less busy runways, but it's still hairy. Accidentally landing on a taxiway is not good but it is hardly unheard-of.
Sure he should have, but shit happens. I don't think less of him for it, especially since he was previously able to bring down a suddenly engineless plane without killing himself or anyone else.I understand all of that but don't you think that at some point before he landed he should have noticed that there was no big painted runway identification letter/numbers, no bright orange arrow thingies that are just shy of the runway and aborted the landing? I don't have my pilots license but I've landed a light aircraft and it isn't "that" hard and, at least for me, neither was determining the correct runway or if it was in fact a runway at all.
that's no big deal, making a power off landing. I've done it as a student pilot with 20 hours total time.
What he did was a clear sign he should give it up. You need to be sharp at all times, no excuses. Maybe he will get the hint.