AVIATION SAFETY
This page is under construction. Please revisit in a few weeks when I have time to flesh out more data for this webpage. Please check out my pages on space simulation and Quaternions in the meanwhile as those are the most complete.
SCENARIO 1: Alaska Flight 261
Mechanical failure leading to inverted plane. Pilots had never been trained in inverted flight.
SCENARIO 2: Air France Flight 447
High altitude stall of a brand-new Airbus A330 aircraft.
Simulating two Airbus side-sticks in our cockpit with two analog joysticks and a control board. Of course we were having wiring issues with the control board:
SCENARIO 3: Landing at RNO airport
Not every simulation has to be a disaster in order to learn something from it. Sometimes just perfecting landings in flight simulation is valuable in and of itself for aviation safety. Below is a video of my friend’s C23 Beachcraft performing a crosswind landing at RNO airport
(NOTE: Please turn off the sound as the engine is LOUD)