<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/art" class="quote" target="_blank">art</a> (<a href="#138" class="quote">Reply 138</a>):<br/><i>For satellite images that can be released into t...
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Jump to postAs of a few years ago, the Air Canada maintenance schedule for Airbus A320 series aircraft was:
A check - 500 hours
C check - 18 months
H check - first one, 7 years, thereafter 5 years.
These intervals have since been increased.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Starlionblue" class="quote" target="_blank">Starlionblue</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>Quoting heathrow (Reply 17): How...
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Jump to postThe fin kinda thing on the lower aft fuselage is actually the APU fuel drain. I don't recall how it came to be placed there - more bad design by Embraer is my guess - but I think it might be a mod to keep fuel from being ingested into the APU intake. The aft water drain mast is alongside the fuel dr...
Jump to postFrom the Canadian Aeronautical Information Manual: (quote) An emergency situation is classified in one of the two following categories, in accordance with the degree of danger or hazard present: (a) distress is a condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminent danger and of requiring immedi...
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Jump to post<a href="http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/investor/documents/2011_q2_release.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/in...stor/documents/2011_q2_release.pdf</a> This release from August 2011 identifies <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>'s debt as having been reduced to $4.3 bil...
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Jump to postI don't see Westjet buying any CSeries airplanes, they're too close in size to the 737. I think the <acronym title="DHL Worldwide Express (Belgium)">ER</acronym>-170, Q400, or ATR72 is more likely. They would have to wait for a long time to get 787s, and I'm not sure that they'd want to get 767s, du...
Jump to postToo bad. I flew them YWG - KEF and back last summer. Iceland is a great vacation spot.
Jump to postThe A320 fin is composite, and the leading edge is protected by heavy duty aluminum tape to prevent erosion. I often see the tape getting replaced. The tail is not de-iced, only the outboard slats (3, 4, & 5) and the engine nose cowls. I believe the <acronym title="OLD: Hapag Lloyd (Germany), NE...
Jump to postI should add, modern airliners send data to maintenance control by ACARS. Every time the aircraft computers detect a snag, a brief fault code is sent to maintenance control. Most of these are minor items that do not need to be repaired before the next flight, but occasionally they are major, and it ...
Jump to postIf you're talking about modern airliners, all aircraft come with a recommended maintenance programme from the manufacturer. The operator takes this programme, modifies it to some degree to suit their operation, and gets it approved by their country's airworthiness authority. The aircraft is put into...
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Jump to postThe sound at 1:54 onwards is the PTU, definitely. The PTU turns on whenever there is more than 500 psi difference between the green (left) and yellow (right) hydraulic systems. Presumably the landing gear is being retracted at this point, and the volume of the green pump isn't enough to maintain pre...
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Jump to postI'll see your Boeing 757 and raise you a Starfighter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIRwMhRVRY
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/330Guy" class="quote" target="_blank">330Guy</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i> A320's commonly have a sound just after E1 st...
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Jump to postLooks to me like a repaired radome that hasn't been painted yet. The black part is the carbon fibre material, and I have to assume the white portion is either paint or some other coating to prevent erosion until it is properly painted. Why you would see this on a regular basis, I have no idea. Radom...
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Jump to postMy laptop transmits on VHF frequencies, to a distance of three or four feet. However, it's just putting out noise, not a signal, so it shouldn't affect anything (in theory). I also have an MP3 player (not an iPod) which apparently can transmit on transponder frequencies. No reason why a gps should b...
Jump to postThe high time A320s in Air Canada's fleet are approaching 60,000 hours and 25,000 cycles. No indication that they're going to be retired.
Jump to postWe call them flap track fairings, or because we're in Canada, they're more often called canoes.
Jump to postThe A319 with CFM-56 engines (not familiar with V2500s) has one IDG for each engine. The only combined hydraulic / electric contraption is the RAT operated one, and you're having a bad day if that thing is running. There is a small generator for each engine's ECU, mounted on the front of the <acrony...
Jump to postLongitude: I'm not a dispatcher, so I'm not really sure, but I would say one thing to know about are the fault classes. The ECAM system displays class 1 and class 2 faults, and there will be some snags with which the airplane can't be dispatched, or must be <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (M...
Jump to postReally? You guys think air loads did that? I haven't been following the story very closely, how did they determine it wasn't a bird strike?
Jump to postWe had an A320 bird strike with almost identical results. Impressive damage, but I think we repaired the radome.
Jump to postOn A320s, there is a vacuum generator located immediately aft of the aft cargo compartment. This pump generates the necessary pressure on the ground and up to 16,000 feet, where a pressure switch kicks the system over to use ambient, lower air pressure to provide the vacuum. If you look on an A320, ...
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Jump to postI don't know about the 767s but A320s take about 3 weeks to modify for <acronym title="Alitalia Express (Italy)">XM</acronym>. It's a huge mod involving the removal of the complete interior, installing new boxes and running a lot of wire, painting all the interior panels, re-installation and testing...
Jump to postBeing a commercial pilot is kind of like making it in professional sports. For every player who makes it to the NHL/NFL/MLB, etc, there are hundreds or thousands who have the dream but never make it past the minors. That's not to say it can't be satisfying, of course, but $200,000 is something most ...
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Jump to postSince "final" is short for "final approach", anyone who defends "finals" is on thin ice.
"Short final" is used to help other pilots spot you, just like saying "late downwind". It's not official, but if you say you're on short final, I'll look near the threshold, not a mile away.
The "vents" just forward of the main wheel doors are exhausts for the air conditioning packs. The APU is located in the tail cone, and exhausts straight out the end of the tail. The two have nothing to do with one another. The air conditioning packs take in air from the engine bleed air system, and ...
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