Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: St. Augustine forced landing

If a person understands how neuro-networks work, it is clearly understandable. Sully was not afraid to pick out his best option. His mind called all the networks together from his past and made an instantaneous decision based on many things that even Sully wasn't privy to. He threw the rule book away as if he was over a grass airfield in an unpowered glider and drew on those experiences plus his latest . . whether he consciously knew it or not. This is what we all do. The more rules to mull over and compare to, plus the less actual experience, the fewer neuro networks to connect to and the longer the time to make that critical decision.

 

Bruce

 

 

 

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:43 PM, mdhansen3000 <maddog52@aol.com> wrote:

 

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Bair" <jimbair@...> wrote:
> 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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