Southwest needs to better train their pilots?

Southwest needs to better train their pilots?


Flying from Kansas City to Albuquerque involved a unique, yet frightening, travel experience. Returning back from an epic family reunion in KC, I was nowhere near prepared for the mind-jaring approach and landing that this “certified?” pilot would attempt to perform.
I’ve always been a big fan of aviation, and have attempted to learn over the years, basic operating procedure. Would very much appreciate some feedback from actual pilots, or pilots in training, as to my accuracy.
The aircraft was a Boeing 737. The take off from KMCI was great. We made a turn southwest, and began the 1K mile stretch to ABQ (Albuquerque). Things got interesting during the last 10 minutes of the flight. The flight was between the last VOR beacon (ground-based beacons that lead the autopilot towards the destination) and the initial approach path (point when auto-pilot is disconnected and pilot begins to manually maneuver, the aircraft, towards runway alignment). At this point we were around 5,000 ft., just a few miles out of ABQ. It was clear that we were coming in too high and too fast.
Personally think the smart thing would have been to give up on the approach and “go around.” Making a series of large loops around the airport would have given the aircraft time to slow down, and to decrease altitude. The pilot would have had an extra 10 minutes to get aligned with the runway, and make a smooth and gradual decent to the ground. He instead, decided to land immediately, and to give us all the ride of our lives.
In a desperate attempt to slow down, the pilot let out full flaps (hinged surfaces on the trailing edge of the wings). He then turned both engines off, and engaged reverse thrusters for 10 full seconds (while still airborne). A reverse thrust, is referring to when a jet reverses its engines in order to slow down (instead of speed up). This usually happens right after touchdown, and never while still airborne. This is due to the risk of actually stalling the aircraft. At about 1,500 ft., we went through a series of dips, sharp accelerations and decelerations, and very steep banks, as the pilot attempted to align, himself, with the runway. Aligning a large jet with a runway, at such a low altitude, is very difficult. Usually alignment happens at a much higher altitude, when the plane is much further away from the airport.
After another engine shut off, one more 5 second reverse thrust, and a few 45 degree banks, we finally aligned with the runway at about 700 ft. We hit the ground hard and very fast. It was the hardest landing I had experienced. We had been on many flights throughout the day, and you could tell, comparatively, how unusually fast the landing speed was. After we hit the ground, the pilot engaged reverse thrust for 20 full seconds. Usually after touching down, a 737 would need only 8-10 seconds of reverse thrust. He then used part of the taxiway to slow the plane to a full stop.
The pilot, clearly shaken, wearily welcomed us to ABQ (Albuquerque). After taxiing for a minute, he had to suddenly slam on the breaks to avoid colliding with an airport service vehicle. Not sure if the pilot decided to let the co-pilot fly, or if he was a rookie, but he shouldn’t have been flying. Such a landing, on a clear, sunny day, and into a virtually terrain-less environment, was unusual.

Portland Freeze

Hope you all can make it!

Portland Freeze Promo from Josh Enobakhare Film on Vimeo.

The Portland Freeze is a massive flash mob event that Reid Stady and I are hosting this winter. We plan to break the world record of "number of people frozen at one time." The record was previously set in Paris, France with 3,000 participants. Right now we have around 3,200 participates and gaining about a 100 per week.

Oregon Right to Life Promotional video

I'm making 4 30 second promotional videos for the
Oregon Right to Life Association and I need
actors. The work will be pretty simple, no lines
need to be memorized. If you could volunteer
your time give me a call at:
Home- 503-259-8981
Cell- 503-360-2117
Thanks!

The VIP Improv (A flash mob event planned for Nov. 15th)

The VIP Improv
Social experiment idea:
We’re currently looking for agents to be involved on this mission!

On Saturday, November 15th at 3:00 p.m. we will meet at the Streets of Tanasbourne in the parking lot outside of the P.F. Chang’s restaurant to organize and get prepared.

Here’s how this will go down: We will have one (1) person posing as a celebrity shopping throughout the Streets of Tanasbourne Mall. This person is pretending to be extremely famous, but of course they won’t actually resemble any real celebrity. To maximize the authenticity factor, we need a large number of people to play entourage (security) personnel. These people follow the celebrity (VIP) agent wherever she goes, and communicate publicly via radios, essentially to make bystanders notice that the so-called celebrity even has security detail. Every time the "VIP" exits the store, and travels down the street to another store, there will be placed "fans" that will run up to the VIP screaming with joy and asking for an autograph or for a picture. After an unspecified amount of time, the VIP enters a nice looking car and is driven away.

The purpose of this mission is to witness how awesome and the mob effect can be. It’ll be sweet to see what kinds of reactions we get from bystanders, like requests for pictures or autographs with our faux-celebrity.
As of now, we don’t have any specified agent to play the role of the celebrity, but we’ve decided that the celebrity must be a FEMALE, and she needs to be dressed in such a way that makes her stand out and that looks expensive.

In addition, we need to cover a few other important points. We’re going to need at least 60 people to participate in this and make it believable, and hopefully even more. The more people involved, the more impressive this event will be. Let’s go over the different roles needed, other than the VIP. There will need to be Male and Female Entourage Personnel. Guys, we’re going to need to wear black suits with matching suit pants. Think Matrix-esque. Girls involved in the security personnel will need to wear black business wear. Also, both the men and women in the security personnel group NEED to have DARK SUNGLASSES.

We will also be needing a logistics and equipment media team. So far we have three volunteers (Nick, Doug, and myself) and we’re in need of two more. If you have a professional video or photographic camera and would like to play this position, we’d love to have you. Please contact me if you can. (email is at bottom)

Next we need one head bodyguard, and six other backup bodyguards. If you’re a particularly muscular person and want to be in on this group, just dress the part (In a similar professional style like the entourage listed above) and we’ll see you the day of. Next we need a car door opener (think butler), and a red carpet roller. Contact Josh if you would like one of these truly important positions and dress the part as you deem appropriate. Look professional.

We also need a few people to be in charge of celebrity transportation. We need at least two sedans or SUV’s to pull this off, preferably black, could also be silver or white. If you have access to a vehicle like this and would be willing to use it for the mission, we would be absolutely indebted to you.

Lastly, we need fans! The so-called VIP won’t come across as being famous at all if people don’t treat her as such. We would love to have as many as 30-40 people posing as fans, so if you’re in and can play the part, we’d love to have you there! Dress casual, and be sure to bring pens, paper, and your cameras (for autographs and pictures).

Each one of these groups is equally important, and we would love to have as many people involved as possible. If you plan on joining us as a fan, please simply RSVP to this event and leave us a post on the wall below letting us know of your plans. IMPORTANT: For any other position, it is ESSENTIAL that you contact me as described above to apply for the position. We would love to give all of you the part you want, but we must keep this organized so it doesn’t get out of control.
Sorry for the long description y’all, but this one is going to be complex! Not to mention REDICULOUS! Hope to be in touch with you guys and can’t wait to see you there!

-Portland Improv

Josh Enobakhare:-----------------------------Reid Stady:
josh_enobakhare@yahoo.com ------------- email coming soon



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Washington Square Freeze success!

Around 70 George Fox students, and many local high schoolers descended on the mall Saturday to add to the fun.

Event layout:
-10 minute freeze
-3 minute applaud of 2 randomly picked mall kiosks (only one of kiosks was recorded on film)

Seeking God

The atmosphere of the Old Testament, is one filled with relentless hunger. This definition of hunger differs from the common conception of the word. Hunger is: “A craving or urgent need for a specific nutrient .” This hunger does not concern the desire for food but the desire for a relationship with the Christ. Jacob’s continuous plight for God’s blessing, or David’s uncontrollable passion for the Lord, are living testimonies of humanity’s hunger for something more than themselves. According to Hebrews, this hunger originates from deep within the human physic, due to the measure of faith that God has given to each person.
Observing common worldly functions gives great insight into this lost, and felt emptiness, that is occurs on a daily bases among unbelievers. These sad attempts to satisfy and fill, whether it be a push toward wealth, sexual fulfillment or popularity, end up amounting to nothing and leave broken, contrite spirits. King Solomon continually emphasizes, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the meaningless nature of earthly living. Solomon was one of the wealthiest men in all of history and was described in the book of 1st Kings as having 12,000 horses, horsemen, 1,400 chariots and a yearly income of 666 talents of gold. Despite his vast material wealth he knew that it was only spiritual wealth that would satisfy. Solomon understood that a life that was not tangential with its divine purpose was not worth living.

• Why should we pursue God?

Since the beginning of time, God has let us choose whether or not we wanted to pursue Him. Adam and Eve were the first humans to be given such a responsibility and they unfortunately chose the latter. This defining moment in human history is an excellent illustration of a situation where humanity is deceived into refusing God. It is moments like these that beg the question, all over the world, during both the old and the new covenantal periods: Why should the Lord be pursued and sought after by man?
The answer to the question lies in three distinct facts about God:
God is all-powerful.
God holds a great unsurpassing love for His people.
God is all-knowing.
The delivering of Israel from Egyptian rule was amazing feat which included the creation of plagues of mind boggling proportions, the death of every Egyptian first born and the dividing of an entire ocean. Moses, for the most of his life, was smart man who understood the might of God and revered it. A review of the book of Exodus would show how much his life depended on God’s absoluteness. In Exodus 2, Moses was divinely saved from the wrath of the Egyptian pharaoh and finally, in Exodus 12, releases Israel from bondage through God power. Moses was a man who realized early on in his life that he could do absolutely nothing on his own. Without God’s unlimited power, and His love-based willingness to weald that power, he was a meaningless, lifeless fleck of dust.
The post-Exodus God had an exuberant amount of compassion for His people, the Isrealites, during their time of wandering. Constantly, the people kept falling away from God’s plan and kept pushing the lordship of God from their priority. Moses and later Joshua, however, continued to seek after God on behalf of Israel. Not only was Israel forgiven by God, but many were spared their very lives, and continued to thrive in blessing. Exodus 34:5-7 states:
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Being a passage written directly after Israel’s blatant refusal of God authority, in the land of Baal, God openly reveals his persistent love and patience. Despite the short-comings of the Israelites, the Lord still gave to them the promised land of Canaan. God later sent the Babylonians, in the book of Jeremiah, to conquer and to punish Israel; however, He still imparts mercy, and promises that Israeli freedom would eventually return. The Old Testament clarifies the fact that humanity is inherently sinful, and would perish, without the loving kindness of God, and the constant pursuing of His leadership by intercessors. Jeremiah 29:11 is a declaration from God telling His children that He has plans to prosper them, give them hope and to give them a future. It states immediately in the next verse that God hopes that they will then seek Him, so that he can find them and impart to them even more of a blessing.
Falling backward a few centuries brings us to the story of Joseph. Genesis 37 describes the turbulent life of Joseph. He was singled out by His parents which created jealousy among his brothers. His brothers decided to sell him to Egyptian-bound slave traders, so that they would not have to see him ever again. At this point to Joseph’s life, it would seem as if there was no hope for his future. The temptation would have been there to give up on God and to mope about his suffering. Joseph however did not do this. The scriptures never refer to a time when he uttered a word of self-pity. Joseph trusted that His God was the all-knowing God of 1st John 3:20 and lived out his life in peace. It didn’t take to long until God made Joseph the second in command for all of Egypt. Joseph was a radical and persistence pursuer of God. His life was completely bent on trust in an all-knowing higher power.

• How should we pursue God ?

A man who is convinced that he should begin to pursue God’s plan and purpose for his life, may not know how. God wrote the Bible just for humanity for the very purpose of teaching man how to seek after him. The Bible gives us three main suggestions as to how to be an active pursuer of God:
Setting God as your priority
Becoming a person who becomes sensitive to Godly calling.
Being a living sacrifice.
Setting someone who can not be seen as a top priority can be difficult, however, the more it done the more real God will seem. God will begin to open your eyes and let you experience His absoluteness, just as he did to the widow in 1 Kings 17:7. This widow lived during a time of great famine. She had one child and had only one more jar of oil and a handful of flour. She told her son that they were going to prepare their last meal and then die. The prophet Elijah then came to their house and asked the widow to prepare for him this last meal. The widow, who sensed that it was God talking through Elijah, obeyed him and to her surprise her oil and her flour never ran out until the end of the famine. This woman had the Lord set up on a pedestal in her heart, and was ready to be tested in a time of trial.
It is important for a person not only to set God as a priority but for him to be able to sense his life’s divine calling. This involves living a life that is tangential with God’s will. Reading God’s Word is a great way to stay in tuned with the Lord. Becoming a servant by taking spiritual ownership is another. The great leaders of the Old Testament got into there great position of influence because they knew the will of the Lord. Because they knew the Lord’s will they understood the ways as to follow Him.
The term “living sacrifice” is not readily used in the Bible until the New Testament. There are, however, many cases in the Old Testament where this future concept is divinely commanded. All of the Old Testament leaders and prophets went through times in their life when they needed to put the familiar and comfort aside and simply obey the Word of the Lord. Moses was living a good life in a place that had become familiar before God told him to return to Egypt and to lead his people to the Promised Land. Abraham was living a comfortable life until God tested him, by commanding the sacrifice of his son.
Our role as pursuers of God is to give things up for the One we wish to follow. This may not be initially pleasuring but with time Gods plan is eventually carried out and the big picture is revealed.

The active pursuing of the Most High God is one of the sole purposes of the Old Testament. This section of the Bible is filled with detailed historical accounts of men and women experiencing God. This supernatural view of entire lives wrapped up in these few pages gives an amazing oversight of God’s overall plan in all of our lives. Pain and struggle that a person is dealing with in one season may be for the sole purpose of giving happiness and joy to that same person in another season. This all-powerful, all-loving, and all-knowing God that we serve has so much in store for every single life that he has created. It is partly our job, however, to make a choice that will bring us to our highest potential in Him.

Intro

My name is Josh Enobakhare a Nigerian-American recently turned Portlander. I am a born again Christian. I am ecstatic about City Bible Church and what God has done gone in my life there! In my spare time I enjoy shooting and editing films or digital videos for church and for fun. I have an deep passion for Sonic Drive-in burgers, everything Hillsong, improvisation events, Generation Church, biking, Chad Vanhorn and those blueberry muffin halfs they serve after service ends. As my name implies I'm entering my sophomore at George Fox studying engineering. I'm hoping to add to this blog on a consistent basis.