Pilot Speak
I do like the show but sometimes I cringe at what they say or how they say it. I wish they would get the flying lingo down more accurately. It wouldn't take much to have a pilot look at the script and make a few corrections.
shareOn any given scene, including while shooting the flying material, up to 3 different pilots are involved. Script stage, shooting and during editing. The fact there are discrepancies may be due to where you fly and what you do.
I recall a pilot blowing hard after episode 1 about the notion the show used the term deadstick, which he was adamant about not being applicable for anything except todays jets. Never ever in the world would they use that term for anything older than 30 years old he blathered on about. And everyone was supposed to trust him as he was a pilot therefore "Knew of what he spoke" as he put it. And he demanded the show hire consultants.
Then my wife's 92 year old grandmother watched the show and said "I haven't heard the word 'deadstick' since the war. Her husband had been a pilot in WWII
Different strokes for different pilots I guess.
Can you find people with bigger egos than pilots?
OMG! (it's not what you think)
A dead-stick landing occurs when a plane has to land without propulsion which of course can happen with both jet and propeller driven aircraft.
The origin of the term comes from the early days of aviation when propellers were made of wood. If an engine failed the propeller or "stick" was dead. Hence the term "dead-stick".
Props (pun intended) to your grandmother for remembering.
The term "deadstick landing" was used in the Stephen Speilberg movie "Always" (1989) when Richard Dreyfuss was flying a waterbomber (many which were WW2 era bombers).
I thought the term came from associating the joystick being useless in such a situation. And your grandmother may have used it describe your grandfather's performance.
And BTW, the same pilot took issue with a double engine failure which according to him the probability of happening is astronomical. This incident nearly happened on Ice Pilots.