Rocket Near Miss

[Bravedan 106]

 

OK, OK, which quad pilot tried to deflect attention then? ....................

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3428154/Aircraft-carrying-200-passengers-near-miss-rocket-fizzy-drinks-bottles.html

 

[Trevor 25]

1500 ft with water/air propulsion? Maybe Richard Branson is looking at the wrong technology for his passenger space trips.

[Bravedan 106]

 

It's total and utter rubbish isn't it!!

 

The very recent "sighting" of a drone in a close miss by an airliner at 4500 ft that "had just taken off" is another example of the carp being put about.

 

"Thought it was a bird, but then saw the propellers" is another, reported by an airliner "overflying the Houses of Parliament" approaching City Airport. City has an approach glide slope twice the usual, so it was not exactly low at that point, and the cockpit workload would have been very high at that time.

 

I have sat in the pilots seat of a Concorde (BA, while the type was still in service), a 737, and a 777. Outward vision quality was not exactly a strong point on any of them, and that was static and not in weather. I have flown in and piloted a Tiger Moth, Auster, Cessna, and microlight. Only the high wing microlight had largely unobstructed vision, except you were forced to wear goggles.

 

There's very good reason large full size have all those funny XBox screens and dial-ey things, and are heavily controlled by radar, unlike our piloting.