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Altitude Zero

July 19, 2009 - 11:10 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-07-20 07:22:50

Lucy:

If you are at 300 ft and in a spin, or simply stalled out, you have no choice but to put the nose down and try to gain some airspeed.

At worst you will land straight ahead, the recommended procedure in any case. At best you pick up some airspeed and stay in the air. But hitting the ground in spin, with the airplane out of control and quite possibly sideways is the absolute worst scenario for any situation other than, say, whacking into the World Trade Center at full throttle, to use a purely hypothetical example.

I don’t think they have yoke pushed forward; I think they have hauled back on it all the way in a desperate attempt to gain Altitude without changing Attitude. None of the stuff that caused the mortgage meltdown has been fixed, NONE of it. Indeed, we have the Admin bitching about the banks not giving even more money away to neerdowells and reprobates.