Ask The Pilot

[flyingfan]

Quite real. The spotters at London periodically catch people giving examples of how not to land a 380.

Is that a case of some airlines / individual pilots having shall we say higher risk tolerances? And it wouldn’t just be specific to LHR right?

 

[jb747]

The crewing is interesting , assume the centre human is on the throttles , right seat is flying and left seat is ?? standby ?

Both pilots have their hands on the controls. My guess would be that the bloke on the right is ghosting the captain. Engines being controlled by a flight engineer. The amount of throttle movement is extreme. A tad rough I guess.

 

[cosi]

What is the chance of space junk returning to earth hitting a commercial passenger plane while in flight?

 

[jb747]

What is the chance of space junk returning to earth hitting a commercial passenger plane while in flight?

Effectively zero. The recent media noise was pretty obviously a balloon.