Golf and Flying Go Together
A good landing is like a good golf shot; it's the one that keeps you coming back. Today, it was early, smooth, and a day that makes it 'easy'.
If hustling 15 or 20 tons of metal, fuel, and people onto a concrete slab at something around 140 miles an hour is really ever 'easy'.
All the pain, cursing, expenses, and other mess just goes out the window at that moment.
Non-golfers and non-pilots will not understand this perhaps. Fair enough.
Today it was so good the captain turned and said: "Man, that landing really sucked."
This means: we both know the captain is kidding.
A light bump on one wheel, a light bump on the other, and the nose lowered as gently as the designers at Embraer allowed. Which isn't terribly light, unless you carried some extra speed because sorry, the elevator just won't hold you up any more no matter how hard you pull.
That's why the other guy stays out of the way of the yoke.
See you out there tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
If hustling 15 or 20 tons of metal, fuel, and people onto a concrete slab at something around 140 miles an hour is really ever 'easy'.
All the pain, cursing, expenses, and other mess just goes out the window at that moment.
Non-golfers and non-pilots will not understand this perhaps. Fair enough.
Today it was so good the captain turned and said: "Man, that landing really sucked."
This means: we both know the captain is kidding.
A light bump on one wheel, a light bump on the other, and the nose lowered as gently as the designers at Embraer allowed. Which isn't terribly light, unless you carried some extra speed because sorry, the elevator just won't hold you up any more no matter how hard you pull.
That's why the other guy stays out of the way of the yoke.
See you out there tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
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