Talk:Blackbox recording

Anyone who knows about flight want to translate for the rest of us? FinalWish 17:08, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

I have no special insight, but I'll give it a shot:
 * Air Command (military arr traffic control I'm guessing), we have multiple flashpoints on horizon, come back? (something bright flashed on the horizon. What was it?)


 * Air Command, USN Three-Five-Oh requesting landing vector. Have zero ceiling visibility and low on state, somebody get me a landing clearance. (we need help landing, we can't see a damn thing! Gimme the numbers so I can use instruments to land)


 * State One plus one zero to splash, have zero read on outer marker. This is USN Three-Five-Oh, I'm blind out here. (I can't see a damn thing and I'm gonna crash into the water!)


 * Attempting Emergency Landing over water. INS pinger active on distress band. Flaps up, descent to eight cherubs. Three green, over. (Gonna try to crash into the water on purpose 'cause it's better than crashing into the ground)


 * Five cherubs, treeline up, throttle easy on four lights. Prepping to pull the loud handle.  (Oh crap, this isn't water! Gonna drop the plane on the ground and pull the handle for the ejector sea- *CRASH* ded)

Kris (talk) 19:12, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

That helps, but what the hell is a Cherub, an altitude measurement? I've never heard of it. FinalWish 01:01, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

An angelic being or a child. :d... just about as confused as you are. Nukey (talk) 01:06, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe something to do with a Bristol Cherub? Though I find that exceedingly unlikely, but that's the only aeronautical reference I could find, and I found no military references at all. Kris (talk) 01:11, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

A Cherub is 100Ft from what I can work out from here http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm#C ; so 5 Cherubs is 500ft, 8 Cherubs 800ft; Counterpart to "Angels" of 1000ft each. As a guide, in a Glider you want to be starting your circuit at 900ft-ish and doing the final turn to land at 350ft-500ft. The INS Pinger seems to be a location beacon. Agent c 23:10, September 7, 2011 (UTC)