'I'm not qualified to land plane', pilot tells passengers

[westerby]

Speaking of 'Goofs'....i hate to say it westerly but that photo of you sure looks 'Goofy' to me in a harmless fun 50/60's American sort of way of course, Have you ever worked in the local supermarket..?.....Anyway, So the pilot didn't hab the right paper work to put it on Auto P, i would hazzard a guess that this is not easy to obtain, with things working nowadays on the helical friction principal...also when you get to the clagging stage then i fear many will have something to complain about(what say you westers..?),Combine Clag with Fog and the lack of experiance with the workings of the Helical friction principal it could spell a rough ride but until then we should all be grateful of a safe landing no matter where it is and the rules and regs that are in-place to this present day....

Er, yeah.

I'm not qualified to fly the 'plane 'cos I'm too Goofy.

[Bandung_Dero]

I guess he could have made the whole situation better by just saying:-

"---- due to unexpected and adverse weather conditions at Charles DeGaull we have been advised to return to -----"

[jetdoc]

For those that are interested.

In 1930 Diamond added a 15-pound unit to the radio
range beacon and radiotelephone in the cockpit that
made possible the first blind landing of an airplane
entirely by radio guidance [4]. The test came on
September 5, 1931, when an airplane, on loan from the
Bureau of Air Commerce with pilot Marshall S. Boggs
at the controls, made the first blind landing in the
history of aviation using only radio signals for lateral,
longitudinal, and horizontal guidance.

For the complete article.

http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/sp958-lide/038-042.pdf

[westerby]

For those that are interested.
In 1930 Diamond added a 15-pound unit to the radio
range beacon and radiotelephone in the cockpit that
made possible the first blind landing of an airplane
entirely by radio guidance [4]. The test came on
September 5, 1931, when an airplane, on loan from the
Bureau of Air Commerce with pilot Marshall S. Boggs
at the controls, made the first blind landing in the
history of aviation using only radio signals for lateral,
longitudinal, and horizontal guidance.

I'm interested, cheers. The first ILS system then? Didn't know it was that old.