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[wobbegong]

You Crashed and Burned in South America because your Altimeter was shafted??

Or am I being a tad too literal

Of course not! He drowned when it hit the sea and cartwheeled.

[EternalOptimist]

If it says you are at 40,000 feet but you can see trees, start to worry.

Flying into Chicago a few years back and that actually happened to me. The screen said 1000 feet but I could see buildings whiz past.
Luckily Bruce Willis was there and he set his coat on fire , which inexplicably saved us

[Cyberman]

One of my best friends is an Easyjet pilot on a 737 and reckons its not that clear cut.
Should I believe him or a moron like you?
As you seem to rejoice in other people's misfortunes, you won't mind if I wish you the worst of luck in the future and I hope your mistakes are magnified to disastrous consequences.

Your mate should not be flying a plane if he has no commonsense, and you have no commonsense either, obviously. The problem with some of these 'clever' types is that they learn all of the detail which obscures the blindingly obvious, putting the general public at enormous risk.

Please give me his surname so that I can ensure that I do not accidentally hop on one of his flights.

[sasguru]

This isn't just a simple mistake is it. This is a total lack of commonsense as it should be pretty obvious that the altimeter interacts with the automatic pilot, and thus if it is innacurate there is a pretty good chance of hitting planet earth, especially when landing.

One of my best friends is an Easyjet pilot on a 737 and reckons its not that clear cut.
Should I believe him or a moron like you?
As you seem to rejoice in other people's misfortunes, you won't mind if I wish you the worst of luck in the future and I hope your mistakes are magnified to disastrous consequences.

[Cyberman]

You really are an evil brain-dead cretin aren't you?
Are you a qualified pilot? Have you never made a mistake before?
The difference between making a mistake as a pilot and you making mistakes in your dead-end crappy job is that people die in the former.

This isn't just a simple mistake is it. This is a total lack of commonsense as it should be pretty obvious that the altimeter interacts with the automatic pilot, and thus if it is innacurate there is a pretty good chance of hitting planet earth, especially when landing.

[Cyberman]

I spend a lot of time looking at the flight details on those seat monitor thingies.
You are flying at 650 mph, heading south at an altitude of 40,000 feet.

I will be paying even more atention in future

If it says you are at 40,000 feet but you can see trees, start to worry.

[Drewster]

You can't be too literal on here, it's the law

Do you mean that its really literally the LAW? Or am I.....

[sasguru]

.... stupid Turkish pilots.

The pilots thought that a faulty altimeter was not a problem, even though the plane was landing on automatic pilot. What idiots !!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7923782.stm

You really are an evil brain-dead cretin aren't you?
Are you a qualified pilot? Have you never made a mistake before?
The difference between making a mistake as a pilot and you making mistakes in your dead-end crappy job is that people die in the former.

[Bagpuss]

You can't be too literal on here, it's the law

[Drewster]

That happened to me on my BMW.

You Crashed and Burned in South America because your Altimeter was shafted??

Or am I being a tad too literal

[EternalOptimist]

He had taped over a pitot tube during service and forgot to take it off.

that happend on a submarine once, the torpedo tube water sensor got painted over. So the sailors thought the bow covers were shut and opened the tubes to load a torpedo - and whoosh - who left that fkn door open?

[Bagpuss]

last time I flew it told me we were doing 450mph at 200 ft when we had landed. Maybe they connected up to that system?

[EternalOptimist]

I spend a lot of time looking at the flight details on those seat monitor thingies.
You are flying at 650 mph, heading south at an altitude of 40,000 feet.

I will be paying even more atention in future

[Bagpuss]

were you borrowing Threaded's flying BMW?

[sasguru]

Turned out some grease monkey fitted the wrong part during a service.

He had taped over a pitot tube during service and forgot to take it off.