Comic book treatment for RAF air traffic controller
Thursday, December 31st, 2009The actions of the RAF officer who had saved the life of a civilian pilot in a cartoon in a campaign to recruit Air Force now.
Supervisor Air Traffic Anne Geisow helped the country Russian pilot safely at Kinloss in Moray in a storm despite low fuel and language problems.
The pilot attempted to fly from Iceland to Wick.
Flt Lt Geisow awarded in recognition of bravery, as they deal with the emergency in September 2006.
The officer gave a number of RAF personnel Boy’s Own Adventure style comic for stopping treatment ads in magazines and on the website of the Air Force.
Flt Lt Geisow controller was a new special flight if the pilot had come into trouble, while in service at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.
The airport was closed, was the location and did not know the military airfields and Kinloss Lossiemouth. It would be very low on fuel, unable to reach either Aberdeen or the Faroe Islands.
Flt Lt Geisow heard his cries for help, but it is difficult to understand, was limited as English.
His message was: We lost, we need your help. He did the aircraft land in e-beam Kinloss when the situation will help a lot worse now locked.
Heavy rain and wind blew the aircraft from the jet and the pilot could not recover.
Circling around 800 feet, came close to radio towers below 200 feet below.
A radar Flt Lt Geisow, but then failed and the pilot started, the instruments will not work correctly.
An aircraft of the Royal Mail has also been approached, and he knew to be diverting.
He stood quietly directed mail plane, a Russian pilot was given the instructions he needed to find the package again avoiding the radio masts.
He knew the fuel was almost exhausted, and there can be no second opportunity for landing.
The Russian plane landed with only fumes in the fuel tanks.
In 2007, Flt Lt Geisow with a bravery award from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in the annual Vodafone Life Savers Awards have been awarded.