US Air pilot - What a hero!!

US Air pilot AUDIO with ATC - What a hero!!

This is one cool pilot...can you imagine? Hats off to this guy!!

Used to fly F-4 Phantoms apparently.

Link: Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger on FAA audiotape: 'We're gonna be in the Hudson' -- Newsday.com

Click on the video part way down

 

Was more calm than ATC. He's the man

 

Nothing new

Dude, It is all over the TV for the last few months and I want to see some thing new.

 

Balls the size of church bells.

 

He did a great job for sure, but I bet a majority of the "experienced" commercial airline pilots today could/would have done the same thing. Experience + Circumstances + Location + A LOT OF LUCK = results that happened.


Oh, and I want to uke: if I hear anymore about this story. 10 times a day is enough!

 

In my defence..weren't the audio recordings just released 1 or 2 days ago.?

 

I think so. At least fairly recently.

 

Bryan. I will defend you. Some of us can't get to the TV as often as others. Thanks for the post. Now if you was a real man, you would joinn me going down to Reggies.

 

What was the name of the first officer again...oh yeah nobody knows?

 

I wondered that too for the longest time since my brother is a F.O. They always said "the crew". I wonder how much help the F.O. actually was though.

His name: Jeffrey Skiles of Oregon, Wisconsin. I only know because I have family outside of Madison, WI and Oregon is a suburb of Madison..

 

I'm an fo also and from my understanding it was his leg to fly... after he hit the bird captain sully took over. once he took (flying the airplane) over the fo was trying to run an immposibly long checklist, working the radios, and trying to restart the engines. The crew did one hell of a job.:thumbsup:

 

Wow, that dude did a fantastic job. Sounded like the ATC was trying hard too.

Thanks for the post.

 

Maybe with his milatary experence he was used to water landings as with seaplanes ect?
Must be the same principal, full flaps,hold her off, let her stall on the water tail down, keeping everything level? I bet he had tight pants afterwards!

 

Let's not forget the Flight Attendants. I am married to one so I admit freely I am biased. Without the FA's getting the people out, how many would have drowned or not got out of the aircraft? The AC is obviously the man for putting the thing down in one piece but everyone involved to include the ferry & tug boat drivers all need a very large pat on the back.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

And here i thought the life rafts where just there to make you feel better...

 

The entire crew kicked ass on this one.

 

I doubt he ever did water landings being that the he was in the air force even though the flew F-4's. I thought the skills were more derived from his Glider Experience. Non-powered flight trains you be insanely smooth at the controls. Not to mention the years of experience and 19,000 flight hours.