Airtran Jet Landing Without Aid of Autothrottle at Newport News International

[ckakalak2]

why is the camera sooo shaky??

[domin755]

@BOEINGFRENZY

except every crj-series and all emb-series (except 170,190 etc..) aircraft. none of those airplanes have autothrottles.

[dalejr82010]

@domin755 Those airliners are very small jets and maintaining a speed and controlling the plane are not as difficult as they are more nimble than the larger jet featured in the video (Boeing 737). The pilots are trained on a B737 and therefore use the autothrottle probably 99% of the time so its more difficult to do something that you're not used to. Imagine having to tell yourself to breathe and your body not doing it autonomously, now try multi-tasking...

[domin755]

@dalejr82010 I think you miss-interpreted what I was trying to say. The guys in the video did a great job. Although I don't have any experience flying the 737, I jumpseat on united airbus' all the time which are similar in size to the 737. More often than not if their doing a visual, they'll disengage the autothrottles around the base-to-final segment. just wondering, how familiar are you to the aviation/airline environment?(just curious, not trying to sound insulting :)

[MedicPat]

Wow I'd be scared as hell listening to that during a landing!

[flyboy6753]

I wish you would have zoomed in a little more. haha nice vid

[RicardoNY1]

@BOEINGFRENZY It is not especially difficult to "Steadily control" the throttles during landing, it's actually easier to use manual on certain aircraft or with wind/gust conditions.

[bagelboi66]

@BOEINGFRENZY Right...

[jvorus]

you don't need autothrottle to land.

[nkeene3]

very bad landing if you want good landing fly spirit air and that was not an emergency landing and there is nothing kool about flaps on the wings going down idiots and morons i bet there little kids fltying by them selfs and being watched by the flight addendent little kids hate them very much

[meccaturbo]

@nkeene3, where did you learn how to write, you retarded moron? You write one big sentence, and you sound like an idiot. You should go get your GED because it's obvious you never graduated school because you are too retarded.

[jvorus]

@meccaturbo Why talk and belittle people that way? Its not nice.

[meccaturbo]

@jvorus a lot of things in life are not nice. Get used to it.

[stopthatimmediately]

@meccaturbo the fact that there's so much stuff that isn't nice just means there's no reason to add to it.

[jvorus]

@nkeene3 For you to say that was a bad landing is something within itself. You don't know the weather conditions, loads, or anything of that nature.

[gobuzzrobotics]

i love that sound

[cavok84]

good landing. the auto throttles are commonly disconnected for landings. It keeps pilots proficient on airspeed control

[flydude1063]

Airtran doesnt have DC-9's. Just 717's and 737's. The 717's are a little bit like a DC-9, but much newer.

[gobuzzrobotics]

yeah and like 7 thousand times quieter

[jstapen]

it was not an emergency landing. i think the ILS. (if you know what that is) stopped working.

[marick626]

you don't need an ILS in perfect weather like that. And pilots land the aircraft manually all the time. There had to be something much worse.

[Joey7700]

is this their old DC-9's

[DirectFilms]

They don't have DC-9s. Only US airline that uses them is Northwest.

[Joey7700]

The used to have DC-9's though, thats what I was wondering, it was a newer version of the DC-9 but was still called as such. I know that NWA is the only on right now, but back a few years, Midwest and Airtran operated them

[dotey10]

runway 25?

[aholebunchofans]

man

nasty ok well airtran never has to do emergancy landings that is wierd

[skillzdatkillz22]

I know, Ive never heard of an airtran plane crashing or emergency landing?

[aviation1992]

He just think it was an emergency landing. We have fire trucks driving around all the time here.

[dalejr82010]

i corrected myself, it wasn't necessarily an emergency landing as much as it was landing on a special circumstance. We had been informed of a minor malfunction shortly after starting our descent and from that point on the throttles were completely in control of the pilots. I've flown on many many flights and never encountered a situation like this.