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@miami_rick 🇺🇸✈️
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@miami_rick 🇺🇸✈️
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Joined March 2015
- I’m at a loss for words. What absolutely terrifying news from South Korea. No gear, no flaps, valiant effort from the crew. As a pilot, every time this happens it hits me particularly hard because I personally know how hard that crew must’ve tried to achieve a positive outcome.
- I’m always quiet at first when an accident occurs because not enough data is available to make an informed assessment. After watching this short video it’s abundantly evident to me that the flying pilot did not properly flare the jet prior to touchdown causing the the right mainShocking footage of the Delta crash yesterday!
00:00 - Prayers for our UPS brothers and sisters and for the entire UPS family.
- Flying southeast of Edmonton a few days ago we overtook an Air Canada A-320 and after a few exchanges over 123.45 that nice crew requested my email address so they could send me a picture they had just snapped of us as we flew overhead. Well, today I received that email and this
- A little #InsideBaseball as to how #United328’s engine problem was handled, from a #B777’s #pilot point of view.. Although startling for both #flightcrew and passengers, an engine issue such as this one is something we constantly train and plan for..
- We were treated to quite the light show on our climb out of #Baltimore last night courtesy of the convective weather to the west of the airport. Yesterday’s #SaintElmosFire was among the best I’ve seen. #Aviation #B767 #pilot #airlinepilot #weather #aviationweather #Thunderstorms
- I don’t care which side of the aisle you sit in, this here is epic.The most EPIC flyover of the season 🇺🇸🦅
00:00 - My First Officer doing the walk-around prior to our flight out of Anchorage to Miami at o’dark thirty tomorrow morning…
- The sheer size of @BoeingAirplanes #B747-8F is something that will never cease to amaze me. To think that a man-made object weighing almost 1,000,000 pounds, yes, 1 million pounds can get off the ground and shortly thereafter reach initial cruising altitudes of 5 to 6 miles above
- Alright, regarding this Kendall Swanson situation and the unfortunate yet fortuitous events of Delta 4819 operated by Endeavor.. Kendall was fully qualified to sit where she was. Conditions however were perhaps just outside her level of experience and expertise at the time and
- How about we take a stroll around Barbarella while we wait for the rest of our crew and our distinguished guests to arrive? We’ll start and end upstairs in the #flightdeck, c’mon.. #B747 #aviation #Airlinepilot #QueenOfTheSkies #pilot
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