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[challenge entry] New safety features at Heathrow


Awesome job by the co-pilot to land that without power.

Edit - I think I might add this as a challenge entry. It has directions on it...

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(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:35, archived)
# agreed. Gliding in a 777 takes a man with balls of steel

nice anim!~
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:36, archived)
# Especially when you're only given a few seconds notice and the ground is coming up awfully fast.
The fact that some of the passengers thought it was just a bumpy landing is quite amazing.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:39, archived)
# Yes
but it's not as if he volunteered.

His other choice was death, so it's hardly a surprise that he did what he was trained to do instead.

/cynic blog
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:40, archived)
# Hmm.
But he could have panicked. If this had been one of a lot of other airlines with less emphasis on training and we'd be having silences at football matches, etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:43, archived)
# ^
now shut up Finnbar and put the kettle on
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:46, archived)
# Coffee!
(please)
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:47, archived)
# nearly forgot
woo!
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:48, archived)
# Lack of cafeine means me go bed now.
night night!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:54, archived)
# You read my mind.
*puts kettle on*
*goes back to laying new floor*
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:47, archived)
# For all we know he screamed like a girl and shat himself.

Still, if that's what it takes to get it down safely, I take my hypothetical hat off to him.
:D
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:46, archived)
# "His other choice was death"
...or cake.
(Gyrate AHHHHHH! Saviour of the Universe!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 23:59, archived)
# if you've got to bounce a Boeing...
... might I suggest practising somewhere a bit safer?


(one of only 2 FPs I ever made, back when I was oh so young...)
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:53, archived)
# How long did that take?!?!
have a 'woo'
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:56, archived)
# took longer to optimise than to make
and it's still 300kB (sorry). It's made up of MS FS screenshots.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 23:00, archived)
# it looks like a house
in lights.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:36, archived)
# hehehe
great stuff - i was very impressed on how they landed :D
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. Jesse. broke his ankle, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:40, archived)
# great stuff
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:42, archived)
# brothelcopter
(James_Bailey uhn tiss, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:43, archived)
# Someone has to animate
a big magenta cock on approach to that...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:46, archived)
# hahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 22:45, archived)
# Woo!!!
Nice one!

And I agree about the co-pilot, what a fecking genius.
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Sun 20 Jan 2008, 22:43, archived)