I have heard that the Gimli Glider landing sequence was loaded into the
airlines flight simulators for training purposes and that almost no one
could successfully land the plane the way the pilot did. Can anyone confirm
this story?


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Maule Driver writes:

Ted Wagner wrote:

I nearly fell out of my chair when I read that. The FIRST thing I
was taught in my brief career as a powered flight student was the
contingencies of no engine power from the moment one pushed the
throttle forwarded to the moment one was finished taxiing.

Well, that's a single engine recip approach. With multiple
turbines, multiple simultaneous engine failure is pretty difficult
to achieve I guess - unless you screw up the fuel situation.

It has been done with 767s, Airbusteds, P3s and C-130s. It only
takes a small error and then to not check properly. IE, report
fuel loaded in lbs and have the number close to what the crew
expect in Kgs.

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