August 31, 2008
What they do in the cockpit to land you safely in the rain. A great bit of writing about another day on the job as a commercial airline pilot."Rolling onto final, the co-pilot calls for "flaps three". I can see the runway; it is raining ahead, but looks OK. "Flaps full, landing checklist" I call out the items on the landing checklist like a good little non-flying pilot. There is a heavy shaft of rain east of the control tower, but our runway still looks good. Lightning bolts flash east of the airport boundary." -- Flight Level 390: TABIR intersection (N28 25.2 W083 00.2)
Posted by Vanderleun at August 31, 2008 8:39 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.