Since the Ace thread was recently resuscitated, Travolta just finished a Disney+ short about a near disaster in flight
Travolta the Pilot
- Thread starter murphey
- Start date
EricFlight
Filing Flight Plan
Watching the movie now...thanks for letting me know it existed (talking about The Shepherd on Disney+)
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2007
- Messages
- 331
- Display Name
Display name:
Don
Per the variety interview (link in murph’s linked cnn piece), travails was in a GII when he experienced electrical failure
Anyone familiar with the systems in that jet, care to comment? are there no backup systems in a G2?
Last edited:
Zeldman
Touchdown! Greaser!
Very very early Travolta flight training..
Daleandee
Final Approach
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2020
- Messages
- 6,878
- Display Name
Display name:
Dale Andee
Perhaps he's singing a bit of "staying alive" after that ...
A g2, if I remember correctly, the battery switch was the ground for the entire airplane. There were a few crashes because the battery switch was right next to the standby inverter switch, if not careful when turning on standby inverter you could turn off all power to airframe. Later there was an ad to install a guard between the switches.
MauleSkinner
Touchdown! Greaser!
Second-hand info, but I was told that GIIs are either AC airplanes or DC airplanes, and the two have substantially different procedures for electrical emergencies, and that Travolta applied the wrong procedures and made the situation much worse than it would have been.
Jim_CAK
Line Up and Wait
I just watched it on Disney+. It is a short film - about 45 min. It is a nice movie - and better than most things I find on TV.
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2007
- Messages
- 331
- Display Name
Display name:
Don
Thanks! It seems strange to this piston pilot that there aren’t some backup systems.
wanttaja
En-Route
Groundpounder
En-Route
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2013
- Messages
- 2,951
- Location
- New Hampshire
- Display Name
Display name:
Emerson Bigguns
From what I heard, the emergency was pretty much entirely Travolta induced. They got super lucky.
FastEddieB
Touchdown! Greaser!
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2013
- Messages
- 11,542
- Location
- Lenoir City, TN/Mineral Bluff, GA
- Display Name
Display name:
Fast Eddie B
Watched “The Shepherd” last night. Nicely done.
Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Both in general, and it brought to mind at least one specific episode from the first season: The Last Flight. I remember this one because I was recently scrolling through old episodes and this was one I rewatched. A fair number of episodes over the years had aviation themes. All episodes up on Paramount+ and possibly other services as well.
Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Both in general, and it brought to mind at least one specific episode from the first season: The Last Flight. I remember this one because I was recently scrolling through old episodes and this was one I rewatched. A fair number of episodes over the years had aviation themes. All episodes up on Paramount+ and possibly other services as well.
The GII has both dc and ac systems at least serial no 96 did. They didn't have constant speed drives for the ac generators so it was wild ac. It would then be converted to dc, then back to regulated ac. Some of the high load circuits like window heat still used the wild ac.