> That said, this “Airliner in the Hudson with two dead engines...†repeatedly
> comes up, and although there are some lessons to be learned from that to
> apply to us all, I am too often hearing people make comments implying that
> the reason that landing was successful was because Capt. Sully had a glider
> rating. That leads to the next implication that if he didn’t have a glider
> rating, it wouldn’t have been successful. I think the reality is a little
> more complicated than that....
Jim,
That is very well put and exactly what Capt. Sullenberger says about his glider experience. Here is a quote from an interview he gave to the Smithsonian.
"I get asked that question about my gliding experience a lot, but that was so long ago, and those [gliders] are so different from a modern jet airliner, I think the transfer [of experience] was not large. There are more recent experiences I've had that played a greater role."
Saying the situation was successfully concluded because he had gliding experience is just wrong and flies in the face of the evidence.
Mitch
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