On Sep 23, 10:16*am, wrote:
On Sep 23, 8:12*am, jeremy wrote:

Stefan wrote:
An airline pilot who happens to also be a pretty good sailplane pilot
told me that it would have been much easier and equally efficient to
just do S turns to adjust the glide path. This would also have avoided
possible problems driving the air driven generator. The pilot who who
did a glider landing with anairbus on the Azores in 2001 used that
technique.

Probably the easiest alternative to trying to haul the thing around the sky
with degraded controls.

JJ

* * * *S-turns are OK if you have the room. If you're in too close
they're useless. I can image the distance needed to S-turn an
airliner...

* * *Dan

Friend of mine, Jack Selby, was chief pilot for the old Capital
Airways out of Smyrna Ga. Watched Jack fishtail a stretch DC8 side to
side on final once scrubbing off altitude. Beautiful landing; great
pilot too!