[Milsurplus] ( OT ) Lion Air 737

[Peter Gottlieb]

Did they ever find the CVR to see what the Lion Air pilots thought was going 
on?  It's like they didn't grasp what was happening.

**

I was doing one of my first XC flights and the instructor pulled the mixture and 
shut down the engine.  Same "where are you going to land?" question.  I picked 
up what looked like a beautiful grass strip among all the trees and circled and 
set up to land.  I thought maybe he knew the owner or something and it was used 
for planes. Anyhow he was writing something in his notes and glanced up with a 
panic when I was about a hundred feet high and yelled "MY PLANE" and restarted 
the engine and climbed.  He had totally spaced or something and I was just like, 
sure, I'll land there if you want me to.  Well he didn't know the owner but to 
me it looked like quite a viable landing strip.  Of course I couldn't really see 
what was under the grass but it looked pretty nice.  We laughed about it later 
and he said maybe it's best if we, ahem, kept that little thing to ourselves.

Peter


On 12/31/2018 11:00 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> "Lucky for him the engine would restart every time! (hopefully...)"
>
> Never an issue, and ALWAYS done when there were several places to go if not, 
> freeway, wash, parking lot, park, street, et cetera. The idea was for one to 
> always keep a safe landing area in mind. Also, to keep in mind the suddenly 
> unexpected, and not freak out and react by yanking up on the yoke as soon as 
> the power is cut (first reaction when craft unexpectedly drops), stalling, and 
> crashing and burning before being able to recover, such as being too low.  The 
> first time, I pulled up, he quickly pushed back down while asking where I 
> would land, after a brief hesitation, and a response, "The wash" (shouted in a 
> panic), power back on.  I imagine if no response, he would have turned it back 
> on anyway, but I never froze, so I never found how far he would go.  I think 
> it did very well in keeping my wits about me, and not panicking, which four 
> decades later has worked well for me.
>
> Kurt
>
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