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Plane with 164 aboard just 30m from midair collision at King Phalo Airport
A jet with 164 people on board came within 30m of disaster when a student pilot at the controls of a light aircraft mixed up “left” and right”. (www.timeslive.co.za) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I flew with a navigator - you'd hope they knew left from right - he had a big "L" on his right glove and an "R" on the left. When pressed he replied that if I were flying the silly thing facing backwards, I would too !
Inbound from the north to do circuits, positioning for rwy 11 and instructed to turn right and continue routing north of the aerodrome... in a left hand circuit setting up for a base leg join the aerodrome would be on their left - maybe a better instruction would have been "continue routing north of the APPROACH (or CENTRE LINE)"? ð¤·ð»♂️
"PA285 turn right immediately" is a perfect instruction. Does the student not have a grasp of the English language? Ground him/her.
Some people have a problem and confuse left and right. When I was a student air traffic controller (many years ago) we had a colleague who had just this problem. Of course he had to drop out and went on to become chief met officer. This problem is more common in women.
Sexist methinks
On a statistical sample of 1 (my wife) he is totally correct
not if he has data that would show that.