Beginning_Draft9092
Beginning_Draft9092 t1_j4wzq0t wrote
Reply to comment by Minerva8918 in Qantas plane lands safely after mayday alert by KobayashiNoritake
When I started learning to fly, with the Civil Air Patrol just in a Cessna-172 my first instructor was a retired commercial pilot.Aftet some of the first things you learn after ground school in the air after basic flights, are things like, stalls and how to handle spins, and what to do with engine failures/restarts/emergencies like that. You should navigate and assess everything first, then communicate, be it with passengers and ATC. My favorite advice though was, once you are no longer essentisl task-satursted, if ypu are fly a commercial aircraft, and can give a message to passengers, use your best 'Mission Control Houston' NASA tone of voice, nothing will reassure people more than that very calm, collected voice that sounds like everything is going to be fine, no matter what.
Beginning_Draft9092 t1_j2h7fal wrote
Reply to TIL that all (northern hemisphere) thoroughbred horses celebrate their birthday on Jan 1st. by PropDad
All horses are Korean confirmed!
Beginning_Draft9092 t1_j2d5omn wrote
Reply to comment by The_Critical_Cynic in TIL John Steinbeck IV wrote an article in January 1968 about marijuana usage among the troops. This set off a media firestorm, & the Army began clamping down on marijuana usage, arresting ~1000 G.I.s a week for possession. Many G.I.s switched to heroin, which was odorless and thus harder to detect. by The_Critical_Cynic
It's not so odorless when people smoke it in the back of my metro bus while I'm just trying to get to work in the morning..
Beginning_Draft9092 t1_j4wzu4p wrote
Reply to comment by Minerva8918 in Qantas plane lands safely after mayday alert by KobayashiNoritake
When I started learning to fly, with the Civil Air Patrol just in a Cessna-172 my first instructor was a retired commercial pilot.Aftet some of the first things you learn after ground school in the air after basic flights, are things like, stalls and how to handle spins, and what to do with engine failures/restarts/emergencies like that.
You should navigate and assess everything first, then communicate, be it with passengers and ATC.
My favorite advice though was, once you are no longer essentisl task-satursted, if ypu are fly a commercial aircraft, and can give a message to passengers, use your best 'Mission Control Houston' NASA tone of voice, nothing will reassure people more than that very calm, collected voice that sounds like everything is going to be fine, no matter what.