Movie Sweeper Monk /Kevinyu (Aircraft Co-Pilot)
When Captain Sully lamented the beauty of the Hudson River, he did not expect that a few minutes later he encountered a small probability event that most pilots could not encounter in their lifetime, when Captain Sully shouted the phrase "mayday", he did not expect that a few minutes later he became a miracle creator, so that 7 years later, a master director of the film industry, Clint Eastwood, brought this miracle of Sully to the screen at the age of 86, and "sully" may be the best civil aviation movie in the history of film. Because Clint Eastwood made this film unique and profound, shining with the human brilliance of a worker.
Captain Sully completed the miracle of the first jet airliner in human history to successfully land on the water without any deaths, and there is no doubt that the forced landing on the water has become the key word of the event, and the bird strike that caused the forced landing on the water is another key word, so let me talk about these two keywords first.
In order to prevent bird strikes, the engine of the aircraft itself will be equipped with "eagle eyes", which is the spiral logo in the middle of the front of the engine, and the spiral logo in the middle of the engine when it rotates rapidly is very similar to the eyes of the eagle, so it can disperse the birds that are very sensitive to the eyes (another role is to help the aircraft maintenance identify whether the engine is running), and the airport will also fire air cannons at regular intervals around the perimeter to disperse the birds near the airport area.
Aircraft Hawkeye
After the Flight 1549 incident (the prototype event of the "Captain Sully" movie), the New York airport was equipped with bird love radar, which could detect birds affecting the take-off and landing of the aircraft in time and act quickly. The engine of the jet airliner will also be tested at the factory to prove that the engine can maintain enough thrust after the bird crash, but unfortunately the bird that hit Flight 1549 is a Much larger Canada Goose than the test bird, which caused the engine to fail.
Picture of flight 1549 incident
Forced landing on the water, because of its very small probability of occurrence, is rarely mentioned in the field of pilot profession, the reason why it rarely occurs is because even if the aircraft needs to land, the water surface is always the last choice of the pilot, the airport, highway, open land is more solid and stable, can better support the landing gear of the aircraft landing smoothly, after the forced landing can be faster and more convenient to implement the rescue. Landing jet airliner landing gear on the surface of the water has no use, can only rely on the fuselage to complete the landing, and the entire fuselage contact with the water surface is difficult to ensure that there is a balanced and stable focus point, any attitude deviation will cause the aircraft to disintegrate after touching the water surface, even if the aircraft is completely landed, the fuselage is not a waterproof structure, and the water leakage will make the aircraft sink a little.
In the film, the plane lands in the water
At the same time, cold water temperature is the biggest natural enemy of human beings, not to mention whether they can swim or not, in the cold water, humans will quickly lose their mobility. We see that the film is a good restoration of the moment when the aircraft touches the water, the wing level, the attitude is slightly tilted, the fuselage and the water surface are at a very small angle to let the tail touch the water first, and finally let the entire fuselage land smoothly, which is certainly a lucky component, but it is more of Captain Sully's control technology.
The film flashes back to the cockpit of the aircraft before the forced landing twice, the whole process is extremely real, I believe that every pilot has a sense of empathy when they see this clip, this tension comes from every simulator training, and at the same time, the small probability event of bird strike plus double failure makes every pilot extend some thinking.
The transition from take-off and glide to off-the-ground climb is known as the critical stage of flight, and first let's take a look at what is going through the minds of pilots during this critical phase. From pushing the throttle to the ground pilot needs to consider the weather, wind direction and wind speed, maintain the runway direction, sudden mechanical failure and other factors, and the disposal after the sudden mechanical failure depends on the speed and type of failure of the aircraft, in different speed stages according to different types of mechanical failure to quickly decide whether to continue to take off or interrupt the take-off, the correctness of the decision often occurs in this short tens of seconds, think about the runway invasion incident that occurred in Pudong this year, the life line is only a decision within a few seconds of the captain.
Take-off and climb seems to be less stressful, in fact, it is not, the pilot still has to consider the terrain, weather, speed limit of the departure procedure, controller instructions, the approximate position of other aircraft and other factors, with the help of today's advanced flight system pilots may have a little time to enjoy the scenery outside the window, but if once a mechanical failure or a bird strike event like Flight 1549 suddenly increases, it is still urgent to operate the aircraft, troubleshoot, decide to continue to fly or land. When Sully recalled an experience in his youth, his instructor uttered the golden rule of the flying world, "No matter what happens, fly the airplane", which is intended to manipulate and control the state of the aircraft (the imported version of the translation here has a slight translation error), which is also the basis of Captain Sully's miracle.
The author does not intend to popularize too much flight knowledge, focusing on let's take a look at the cockpit resource management that the audience may ignore but is well understood by a reminder, which is the quality that an experienced captain should have. The resources of the cockpit are mainly two pilots, aircraft systems and flight manuals, the aircraft began to take off by the co-pilot operation, bird strike Sally Captain realized that the two actions after the double engine failure seemed simple, in fact, from a wealth of experience and strong psychological qualities, the ignition of the ignition, the auxiliary power unit (apu) started, and then shouted "my aircrafft", taking over the operation (Airbus's standard shout is i have control, casual Americans changed), Let the co-pilot check the quick checklist (qrh, a manual that collects all the flight failure procedures, which is convenient for the pilot to quickly deal with the fault), the whole process of cockpit division of labor without any confusion, the pilot is calm and calm, the program is clean and decisive, this is really 40 years of flying out of the valuable experience quality ah!
I think this is a more amazing place than the final perfect water landing technique. At the same time, Captain Sully's unusually calm and decisive decision will also make his peers admire, the whole process of landing the aircraft requires the pilot to roughly estimate the height ratio, that is, how many feet the aircraft needs to drop a nautical mile forward, and change the flight mechanism type at different stages to finally reach the landing configuration, which is still normal, and the abnormal situation also takes into account the partial failure of the aircraft caused by the failure and abnormal procedures. The conditions left to Captain Sully were an aircraft without any power, and an altitude of less than 3,000 feet, 40 years of flying experience and strong psychological qualities were crucial at this moment, and we can also hear from the real recordings of land and air calls, Captain Sully resolutely and resolutely rejected the controller's suggestion in a calm tone, and quickly decided to force a landing on the water, and within a few minutes was a decision about 155 lives and his 40-year career. The author believes that Captain Sully certainly did not consider his career, at that moment the safe landing is the top priority, super high professionalism allows Captain Sully to correctly dispose of cockpit resources, correct decision, even at such an urgent moment did not forget to inform the cabin "brace for impact", the last is to control the technology of the aircraft, maintain the absolute level of the wing, control the speed, the fuselage slightly up, keep the tail of the first touch, please clap your hands again!
Captain Sully's charisma does not only come from his professionalism, but also from his overall conception of the whole event. At the end of the film, the National Transportation Safety Board (hereinafter referred to as NTSB) affirms the correctness and importance of Captain Sully, but he does not agree that this miracle cannot be created without the cooperation of the entire crew, air controllers, ground rescue personnel, and even passengers. Reading this, I hope that readers will not only focus on the flight crew, but also forget that you will be an aircraft passenger in the future and the flight attendants who are closest to the passengers.
The film's depiction of the cabin is also quite realistic, with flight attendants inspecting the cabin before the forced landing, shouting "embrace for impact" until the last moment, and quickly and methodically evacuating after the forced landing, even in the case of injury. Such professionalism is based on complete vocational training and good psychological quality, flight attendants really do not just give meals to passengers to pour water, in an emergency you really need them to save their lives!
As a passenger in the face of an emergency situation on the plane, the only thing you can do is to be calm, maintain order, do not love money, and cooperate with the crew. Someone would ask what the flight attendant chanted "embrace for impact" mean? It is indeed a bit strange to domestic audiences, after all, no one will always encounter emergencies. The cabin training terminology for domestic airlines is "bend over, brace", which is much the same as the terminology used in the film. Aircraft in non-runway conditions will be forced to land will be impacted by a strong column, then the most critical is to protect their own physical safety, before the impact of the flight attendant will shout the above terms, reminding passengers of the correct anti-impact posture. The body can only accept the impact more firmly if it is bent down and the whole body is tight, so as to improve the chance of not being injured. I don't know if the reader has noticed that after the plane is forced to land, only a few passengers know how to wear a life jacket, so once again remind you to listen carefully to the safety broadcast on the machine, it can not only tell you how to do the correct impact-proof posture, but also tell you where the life jacket is.
Passengers lie down to prevent impacts
Director Clint Eastwood's focus will naturally not be just on the forced landing, that is the level of a TV documentary, the film needs a plot conflict, then the third-party investigation agency ntsb naturally plays the "negative" role. The plot conflict of the whole film all comes from ntsb and Captain Sully, the only thing that goes against the truth in the film is the portrayal of ntsb, an aviation accident occurs, naturally there must be an authoritative third party to intervene in the investigation, the public needs heroes, but more need the truth, ntsb is composed of experts in many fields, in order to give the public the truth of an event.
The wonderful reversal in the movie comes from a passage in the hearing, ntsb ignores the human factor, Captain Sully is calm and calm, and says "You are all on paper, give me 35 seconds back to talk about the return landing" The powerful counterattack led to the final victory, the audience watched it, but we must not forget that the real situation is that ntsb did not forget the human factor, and they did not deny Sully's professional ability, and everywhere targeted or looked for Captain Sully. Although this portrayal of the contrary to the truth is somewhat criticized, it can also be understood and accepted, and the creative method of art works that deviate slightly from reality and finally justify themselves is also a professional skill that a film practitioner should have.
Of course, Clint Eastwood is an Oscar-level director, the portrayal of the character can not only stay in the great and witty, the most moving thing for the author in the film is not the professionalism of Captain Sully after the forced landing and evacuation, but the professionalism of Captain Sully who left the plane after determining that everyone was evacuated, but a few scenes of Sully and his wife on the phone, which really touched the author. A sentence of I love you at the last moment of life, a peace phone call after miraculous survival, warm and touching, if the film only has these, it would be too vulgar. Behind the high-risk and high-pressure occupation needs a calm and strong family support, but this family in turn will also tie you up, the wife is worried that Sully will lose her career and lose the property, what a real portrayal of life, the person who loves you will still waver in front of reality, a man's low frustration and regret love in the soft side light and shallow piano tapping sound in the dark and calm transmission to the audience, Clint Eastwood's narrative ability and audiovisual language are unique and sophisticated.
Every takeoff is optional.every landing is mandatory), a golden sentence in the civil aviation circle, which seems to be quite philosophical, like starting to have a choice, but in the end there is no escape from fate. The pilot's understanding of this sentence may not have a philosophical meaning, but more in the literal meaning between the lines, every rise and fall, all the crew members work together to do their own work (we did our job), only hope that the audience who watched the film, the readers who read this so-called film review and those who work in the front line can take off and land safely.
Kevinyu: Airline Airbus A330 co-pilot, Weibo @iamkevinyu, know the @kevinyu.