Today's sim session was a LOT of fun though. It's odd to say a sim session was fun because we normally get multiple failures and have a lot of stuff to cover. Today we got to pick our poison. We picked a scenario or two from a list of 10 and got to fly those and then still had a lot of time to do fun stuff.
One scenario re-created the events of Air France 447 (losing airspeed info at night over water).
Another scenario re-created Sully's flight. We did this one a couple of times each.
Another scenario was an approach into Eagle, Colorado on a hot summer night at max landing weight with a go around at low level and then lose an engine. Because of the weight and hot temperature (28°C) the plane was barely climbing, so climbing straight ahead wasn't an option to avoid a mountain. The only option was to fly down a valley that goes to Rifle, Colorado and climb as you fly down the valley.
Each of those lasted 5-10 minutes at most, then we got to have fun. Like taking off from an airport in Rio, fly under a gondola while barely clearing the ridge, turn around the mountain and land back at the airport as quick as you can. Or, doing a Touch and go on Philadelphia's three parallel runways, then circling to land on the perpendicular runway.
We learned a lot but had a lot of fun doing it.
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