Quoting Galaxy5007 (Reply 98): I hate to say it was crew as well, but from the evidence I've seen, it was pilot error, or task saturation, where there was way too much going on and couldn't keep track of everything since it was happening so fast. |
I hate to say it, but you're right. "Task Saturation", has brought more planes down since the Wright brothers than any other factor!
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 99): Galaxy5007 and XC5Eng....thanks for a great discussion. Despite other's attempts to steer the thread elsewhere, you two have brought some great, educated, and disciplined speculation and investigation to the topic. |
Hey no problem. It has been some time since I've blown out the cob webs. Its like I tell me wife all the time, "there is nothing in my life I have known more about or will no more about or will ever forget more about is flying the C-5 and flying in general". It was more than a career, it was my life, and despite that fact that I moved on to the business world, my dreams are always in the cockpit. As unfortunate as this incident was, it really reached back into some far corners of my mind and it is truly amazing how much comes back. I can only attribute my training to that and the fact that I was the one that always "carried the snake" in my bag. If it was going to happen on the plane, it always happened to me. The comand post very frequently would awaken me at 4:00 AM with an inbound that had a problem that I already experienced just to ask me what I did or just phone patch me to the crew. I was normally half asleep when I gave my advise. But it always worked. That was cool!
As far as staying on topic, I'm a part of a few forums, and you'll always find people trying to piss farther than the next person. I found it's usually the women that piss the furthest!
This was fun!
Galaxy seems like a straight shooter. That helps!