Not my time yet....

[Ttype83]

I fly into some of the crap holes of the world.
If any of you fly will understand this.

One of the places we go into, they keep us high until the last minute then expect us to drop like a military plane....Takes a good pilot to do this!
All 3 of the pilots on this flight was their first time there.
You get strong up drafts and cross winds.

I'll start from gear down.
The Capt is fighting the stick and triing to slow us down
The planes computer starts screaming "Sink Rate" (going down to fast)
Capt is still fighting the stick
Planes computer is still screaming "Sink Rate" almost on top of it's self
Once the planes gets down to 50ft from the ground it will do a count down by 10ft incenments.
I hear 50ft and the rest is so quick that the compputer has a hard time keeping up...
50,40,30,20,10....Hard hit...rear gear bounces back up, nose gear hits hard and bounces back up.
Capt pushes the stick forward to force the plane back down. We hit again flat (rear and nose gear together (we call the a carrier landing...not good) we Bounce again a good 20ft back up...at this point I'm thinking "GO AROUND"
No Capt says "Sorry" and pushes the stick forward again...anothe r hard hit flat and bouncing the plane back up flat a good 20ft. Another "Sorry" from the capt as he pushes the stick forward...CRAP, I'm going to DIE
4 Bounces that i counted and we are on the ground...brake s are smoking...Jim wants to  
We park and Jim goes chain smoking back on the Main deck.....

[gordyzx9r]

And this is why I like being a helicopter pilot...we just settle to the ground nice and easy, lol.

[Steve Wood]

This is the reason that I am glad to be out of the oil business and crappy runways and pilots.  And French jungle pilots...

Glad you survived Jim and the runway was long enuf to play hop, skip, and jump on!

[Ttype83]

And this is why I like being a helicopter pilot...we just settle to the ground nice and easy, lol.

Hmm, drop like a rock or rolling fireball...

[Ttype83]

This is the reason that I am glad to be out of the oil business and crappy runways and pilots.

[TSM Girl]

Wow Jim, glad your ok.  This is a reason why I am too scared to fly. I would rather drive.  

[DCEPTCN]

"Sink Rate", huh?

*waits for opportunity to use that one*

[Ttype83]

Wow Jim, glad your ok.

[Ttype83]

"Sink Rate", huh?

*waits for opportunity to use that one*

There are four things I don't want to hear from the planes computer.
Not any any order...

1. Sink rate
2. Terran, Terran bank right or left... (only have seconds before hitting a mountain )
3. Collision, descend, descend, descend (only seconds)
4. Level 3 Alert, Level 3 Alert...(Your FCKed, land NOW!)

I have heard 3 of the 4