With such a small passenger load, would they need a standard commercial takeoff configuration? Honest question. I designed planes in undergrad before moving to things that fly a little higher, so my intuition is rusty.
If it was a local chopper pilot, they know quite well where the lines are. The ONLY possible excuse was this one was on a very southerly trajectory, the 2nd or 3rd to do this since the 60s and all in recent months. If the pilot was doing play by play for the tourists, he/she would’ve been aware of that fact too.
I was with some friends and their safety pilot that evening. The safety pilot said the fire ex would have been on the cowling and so would not have been used. If that’s not true, I’d love to be corrected so that my understanding improved.
He would speak to any group interested in hearing him. I got him to come speak to my aerospace engineering department my senior year. I drove him from MCI to Lawrence, introduced him to professors and student groups, and then back to the airport after the talk.
I can't remember if it was there or some other event where he said that in normal simulator training after the accident instead of saying the number of his simulated flight, he actually said, "232, going around."
