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.

 

[Brissy1]

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

Say 12000 acft airborne; av acft surface area 500sq m; surface area of earth (sky) at av flight height 600,000,000 sq km (to make the maths easy), converting to sqm...
= 1/100,000,000

So with 1 piece of junk falling per day, = 1 hit on average every 274,000 years.
Gee, another thing to worry about!

 

[jb747]

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?

This isn’t a risk tolerance issue. It’s a really poor bit of flying. It gives a spectacular snippet of video which the internet then mistakes for the exact opposite of what it is.

 

[mjt57]

This isn’t a risk tolerance issue. It’s a really poor bit of flying. It gives a spectacular snippet of video which the internet then mistakes for the exact opposite of what it is.

Yep, just been reading the comments. One guy said that it was a bad bit of flying (landing?), another said it was good. The guy then asked, "have you flown an A380? I have.".

Who knows, maybe he has, but in what capacity?