Tomo Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Pretty chilling (pun not intended!) recording. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J170 Owner Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I am convinced some pilots deliberately put on weird, hard to understand accents with some strange, deluded idea they sound 'cool'. I even knew a guy once (not a pilot) that used an American accent whenever he used a two-way radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf jessup Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Yep, makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Good outcome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I am convinced some pilots deliberately put on weird, hard to understand accents with some strange, deluded idea they sound 'cool'. I even knew a guy once (not a pilot) that used an American accent whenever he used a two-way radio. I have purchased several hand held radios over the years on Ebay and have found that the accent transmitted depends on where the radio was shipped from. ie China...a chinese accent...America...an american accent, so if you should hear one of my transmissions around Gawler with a very 'Posh Accent' it will be on the radio I bought from England. For obvious reasons do not buy one from China....you have been warned!!! Alan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J170 Owner Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Struth! Didn't think of that. (The accent transmitted depends on where the radio was purchased). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 That was chilling... they descended soooooo quick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Type aircraft Tomo ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadInTheClouds Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Type aircraft Tomo ?? Possibly this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MU-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8vfr Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I had a friend that flew MU-2 and he said quote " they were great as long as they never entered icing" They were lucky dudes on this flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Oh yes Mu-2 meatwagon...I'm familiar...............not a lot of wing there, especially with ice on it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 A couple were lost here due to icing. but it did not ice up on the wings. the ice collected on the underside of the aft fuselage causing massive aft CoG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howard Hughes Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Oh yes Mu-2 meatwagon...I'm familiar...............not a lot of wing there, especially with ice on it ! About as aerodynamic as a house brick and no ailerons either, if you wanna turn, just dump the little bit of lift you do have! One of my all time favourite aeroplanes, but as someone said to me once "that's because you've never flown one". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Communications Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The nick mane for the MU2 is "the widow maker"...quite a few have come to grief in this country....very scary audio especially when he said decending at 4000 ft a minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieselten Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 The MU-2 is a propeller-driven aircraft with near-jet performance - and that includes the glide-angle of a jet with the engine out as well. These guys were very, very lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 What do you mean the glide angle of a jet? They are pretty clean. You get 100 NM from FL330. Work out that glide angle. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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