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0|0|0|||1||imposter syndrome|Gryphon||01:29:36|06/04/2018|I%27ve been re-watching old episodes of the Canadian air crash documentary series %5Bi%5DMayday%5B%2Fi%5D %28repackaged as %5Bi%5DAir Crash Investigation%5B%2Fi%5D in the UK and under similar titles elsewhere%29 off and on over the last few days.  This show is maddeningly sporadically available in the US for some reason%2C and I haven%27t been able to keep up with it via Internet parrotry for a few years now%2C so I haven%27t seen the last four series%2C which makes me sad.%0D%0A%0D%0AOur topic today is therefore from an episode which originally aired several years ago%2C and concerns a man named Hans-Ulrich Lutz.  Unless you%27re an aviation safety nerd like me%2C you%27ve probably never heard of Hans-Ulrich Lutz.  He was a pilot who worked for a now-defunct Swiss regional airline called Crossair%2C and if it weren%27t for the way in which his career and his life finally came to their convergent end%2C he would be a hero to imposter syndrome sufferers the world over.%0D%0A%0D%0AYou see%2C Captain Lutz was... you know how statistically there must be a worst airline pilot in the world%2C somewhere%2C some hopeless no-talent shmuck who met all the bare-minimum requirements%2C was just ever so slightly not too bad at it to hire%2C and has been frantically faking it and just barely getting away with it ever since%3F  Well%2C until November 24%2C 2001%2C that was Hans-Ulrich Lutz.  In 2001%2C he%27d been a pilot for 37 years%2C and had%2C based on all available evidence%2C never been any actual good at it.  And yet%2C he never quite managed to get fired.%0D%0A%0D%0AOnce%2C while captaining a sightseeing flight in the Swiss Alps%2C he managed to get so lost he spent several minutes talking on the radio to the airport where he was supposed to be landing%2C getting increasingly frustrated that the controllers there insisted they couldn%27t see him circling the field.  Only when alarmed passengers started asking the flight attendants why the road signs they were seeing in the streets below were in Italian did anyone realize it was because he was circling the %5Bi%5Dwrong%5B%2Fi%5D airport... in the wrong %5Bi%5Dcountry%5B%2Fi%5D.%0D%0A%0D%0AAnother time%2C Lutz somehow managed to retract the landing gear of a Saab 340A turboprop commuter airliner while it was parked on the apron at Z%C3%BCrich Airport.  Wrote the aircraft off completely.  Astonishingly%2C even this could not induce Crossair to sack him %28although they did allow as how maybe he shouldn%27t be a training captain%28%21%21%29 any more%29.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe Swiss airline pilots%27 union must be formidable indeed.%0D%0A%0D%0AAlas%2C this inspiringly persistent incompetent%E2%80%94who%2C with his near-40-year career and his silver-haired air of settled respectability%2C would otherwise soon have retired and become a permanent a beacon of hope to all of us who feel like we%27re utterly in over our heads at all times%E2%80%94finally managed to achieve performance worthy of his talents on November 24%2C 2001.  Late that evening%2C in bad weather%2C stymied in his hopes of flying his usual automated ILS approach by the latness of the hour and a new noise bylaw at Z%26uuml%3Brich%2C he flew an Avro RJ100 regional jetliner into a hill four miles short of the field while attempting an inevitably-poorly-executed VOR%2FDME approach on the other runway instead.%0D%0A%0D%0AGetting yourself killed in the process of finally running out of bullshit luck is bad enough form%3B taking two members of your crew and 21 poor sods who were just trying to get to Z%C3%BCrich with you is inexcusable.  And so%2C alas%2C we poor overextended imposters of the world are still without a hero we can call our own.%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
1|1|0|||1||RE%3A imposter syndrome|MoonEyes||17:55:46|06/04/2018|Since Crossair%28who%2C incidentally%2C is less defunct than they%27re now the Swiss International Air Lines after taking over all of Swissair when THEY went kaput%29 was the first company to order the SAAB 340%2C a Swedish aircraft%2C I had actually heard of them%2C and by extension Herr Kapit%C3%A4n Lutz and flight 3597%28though%2C I admit I did not remember the flight number%29.%0D%0A%0D%0AAnd yes. I cannot other that agree. Lutz was%2C by any metric you can really use%2C probably the most shit pilot to not actually get the heave-ho in the world%2C prior to his unfortunate stop. Unfortunate%2C that is%2C in that he took others along.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A...%21%0D%0AStoke Mandeville%2C Esq %26 The Victorian Ballsmiths%0D%0A%5Bsmall%5D%22Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls%21%22%5B%2Fsmall%5D
2|1|0|||1||RE%3A imposter syndrome|Gryphon||20:16:54|06/06/2019|Hmm.  Have we found %5Blink%3Awww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-48548023%7Cthe cruise ship industry%27s Hans-Ulrich Lutz%3F%5D  Time will tell.%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D