My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
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My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
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Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
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Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#3The story was posted in 2018. Do you know when it happened? (Or at least an approximation.)
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#4The story was posted in 2018. Do you know when it happened? (Or at least an approximation.)
I believe he started flying in his late 30s/early 40s so it would be around the early 1970s.
Edit: I just asked him (he’s at the dentist) and he said around 1980, guess I was wrong about when he started flying!
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#5and that's why you have a chart of every place you fly to, from, or through, sitting on your knee or not very far from it.
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#6The story was posted in 2018. Do you know when it happened? (Or at least an approximation.)
I believe he started flying in his late 30s/early 40s so it would be around the early 1970s. Edit: I just asked him (he’s at the dentist) and he said around 1980, guess I was wrong about when he started flying!
I would say no earlier than October 1977:
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#7The following sounds so stressful, especially considering the 727 was a trijet with a center engine! [1] That must have been a crazy vantage point in that time period.
> Seat belts fastened, I rolled forward made a right turn and taxied to runway 18 and took my place behind a 727, a large commercial airliner. When I looked back I saw another 727 roll onto the taxiway behind me and then as I slowly rolled forward there was another one behind that one. I was about twelth for departure. The radio traffic was constant. Like Jeopardy contestents the one that was quickest on the button got heard and those guys in the big planes were really fast.
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#8> "Airline pilots are the best at what they do and have spent years honing their craft."
And apparently one of those rare and vital skills is filling in the gaps when talking to air traffic controllers who are not competent to communicate life-or-death information.
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#9> "Airline pilots are the best at what they do and have spent years honing their craft." And apparently one of those rare and vital skills is filling in the gaps when talking to air traffic controllers who are not competent to communicate life-or-death information.
Why are we still doing air control with competitive real time voice radio anyway? Can we not engineer in some queued delay of planning?
(I know nothing of the vagaries of air control)
Re: My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
#10> "Airline pilots are the best at what they do and have spent years honing their craft." And apparently one of those rare and vital skills is filling in the gaps when talking to air traffic controllers who are not competent to communicate life-or-death information.
Why are we still doing air control with competitive real time voice radio anyway? Can we not engineer in some queued delay of planning? (I know nothing of the vagaries of air control)
my startup is providing air traffic control solutions using an AI trained bot to talk to the pilots when a life and death situation arises!