I thoroughly enjoyed this film. I'm surprised the film was ever made, as I imagine the audience would be limited. But, I'm glad it was. It reveals the intensity of sudden emergencies and the chaos they create.
Many of these emergencies were completely out of the control of the pilots. They did nothing to contribute to the problems. As passengers, we wonder how they are working in the cockpit. We could not imagine the drama that unfolds when three highly trained specialists are handed situations that no one anticipated or planned for.
Like a ballet, it looks easy, but it isn't. All the actions are intuitive, because you have to act without thinking...you actions are all hardwired into your brain through training. I think the film portrays accurately the heroism of our airline pilots.
I am a former flight instructor, but I have never seen any similar film that is actually acted out according to the recorded speech and on the same cadence as the pilots experienced in flight.
You can see how the airlines of foreign carriers have no chance of survival in cases where they have to fly by the seat of their pants. They aren't trained to react in situations that aren't spelled out in the flight manuals or handled by computers. Plus, they have cultural communications issues that impede direct intervention in emergencies, which can unfold in seconds.
I urge anyone flying on Asian carriers (plus other countries, I'm sure) to never get on a plane that is flying into bad weather, because the pilots' options are limited by their lack of hands-on training.
Many of these emergencies were completely out of the control of the pilots. They did nothing to contribute to the problems. As passengers, we wonder how they are working in the cockpit. We could not imagine the drama that unfolds when three highly trained specialists are handed situations that no one anticipated or planned for.
Like a ballet, it looks easy, but it isn't. All the actions are intuitive, because you have to act without thinking...you actions are all hardwired into your brain through training. I think the film portrays accurately the heroism of our airline pilots.
I am a former flight instructor, but I have never seen any similar film that is actually acted out according to the recorded speech and on the same cadence as the pilots experienced in flight.
You can see how the airlines of foreign carriers have no chance of survival in cases where they have to fly by the seat of their pants. They aren't trained to react in situations that aren't spelled out in the flight manuals or handled by computers. Plus, they have cultural communications issues that impede direct intervention in emergencies, which can unfold in seconds.
I urge anyone flying on Asian carriers (plus other countries, I'm sure) to never get on a plane that is flying into bad weather, because the pilots' options are limited by their lack of hands-on training.