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Jump to postNope, the navigator is in position from taxi to landing...except for potty or food breaks of course.
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Jump to post"Sometimes up to 50% of the candidates in initial training flunk out." Do you need a college degree to become a flight attendent. Didn't think so, so if you compare your 50% flunkout rates for 'initial training' to acceptance rates-flunkout rates at major Universities, trade schools, or grad schools...
Jump to postAt the end of the day: 1) It's a rather unskilled profession. Did you go to college and study 'flight attendentry'. No, most likely, the company you first worked for made all the investment in your training. The nurse example was a great one, a nurse, in 99% of the cases: went to school specifically...
Jump to postI can confirm that if you have an Israeli stamp in your passport you cannot enter the UAE. This is why every time you enter UAE at a manned immigration counter (I use e-gate as i'm in and out alot), they look through EVERY page of your passport. It is also the reason that when you visit israel the f...
Jump to postWe operate <acronym title="Istanbul Airlines (Turkey)">IL</acronym>-76. They still fly with a navigator today. All of them. In fact, most countries flight crew validation will only be approved if the crew has a navigator with a valid license. Yes, in our aircraft we have modern Garmin GPSmap units f...
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Jump to postHey, Jacobin777, I live here in Dubai, where do you live??? 1) The government likes you to believe it is the fastest growing city in the world, it isn't even in the top 10, and isn't even the fastest growing in the middle east (Doha, Qatar is #1). Besides, even if a city (Dubai) of 1,000,000 people ...
Jump to postThey won't ban stage III, as the <acronym title="Istanbul Airlines (Turkey)">IL</acronym>-76 is too vital to their economy. It does not violate ICAO as it is only absolute for aircraft registered and/or based in UAE as a foreign operator. However, aircraft intending to operate to UAE will be conside...
Jump to postYea but this is Emirates, generally, things here relating to anything government are done without much thought, even if they try. It wasn't an announcement, as I said, it was told to us at the GCAA operators meeting, it was not a press conference, it was a closed door meeting, i figured i'd make you...
Jump to postAs of January 1, 2007, no aircraft older than 25 years of age will be allowed to operate to UAE airports. In addition, regardless of age the following types are banned. 737-200 727-xxx L1011 707-xxx A300 only considered on case by case basis. From the UAE GCAA Annual General Meeting.<br><br>[Edited ...
Jump to postI still think it is funny that a few months ago people were saying that NW was the most solid US airline because they 'owned all their planes'...
...ha...
yea, didn't see this earlier, but dubai is the winner in this one by far...normally whenever I fly in and out of there I find it much busier at night than during the day...same for sharjah airport as well, but to a much smaller scale.
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Jump to postYea, but you all need to remember, for all of you that like to correct someone about what plane they are on, who bought who, what the iata code is (ps. nobody uses iata that is actually involved in aviation) there are plenty of people out there who could make you look stupid when it comes to aviatio...
Jump to postIL-76TD on approach to Kabul (known for terrible wind shear). I wasn't there, but when the crew got back the captain handed me the company flight laptop (sits on his side panel) and the screen was snapped in 2 from bouncing off the ceiling of the plane when they hit nasty wind shear. He was very apo...
Jump to postHere's a better idea.
Go to college, then get a good job.
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Jump to postHawk21M,
Pilots carry 2 logbooks, one for the russian licensing authority, and one for themselves. The one for the agency will be perfect, the one for themselves will be twice as thick.
[Edited 2005-08-13 08:41:56]
Most russian crews aren't happy unless they do minimum 200 hours per month. And i've seen russian freighter crews do 36 duty hours in a 48 hour period.
done a little bit differently over here
I disagree, Air Atlanta 747 at Sharjah fall of 2004.
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Jump to postIs this wing still attached to anything. If it isn't, of course the spoilers will be down as the hydraulic system is probably severed in several places.
Jump to posti got that seat 4 times in a row on <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym>-<acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> and <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FR...
Jump to postLas Vegas is a joke compared to <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym> in the summer, try 110-120 every day, minimum 95 at night, and constant 80-98% humidity. And to think, all we get through here are loaded 744f's, <acronym title="Air Madagascar">...
Jump to postYou call that hot, you guys haven't felt hot till you are standing on the sun baked tarmac at <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym> on a 120 degree day with 95% humidity. You should see an <acronym title="Istanbul Airlines (Turkey)">IL</acronym>-76...
Jump to postIn some countries in the middle east and CIS, registration changes can take less than an hour...
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Jump to post55 onboard by the way, and a very short flight, so no, overloading wasn't an issue.
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Jump to postServes that airline right...maybe they'll drop their absolutely ridiculous royalties they charge at DAC.
Jump to postWas driving down Emirates road on my way home from work at <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym> airport today, and look up and there it is, the 777-200LR on finals for <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</...
Jump to postThe <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11's, Air Atlanta 747F's, <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym> 747F's, and Martinair/Cargolux 747F's average ground time here in <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United...
Jump to postYou all seem to work in libraries compared to here, you know you are in a loud place when 747's are the quietest planes at the airport. <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym>, home of Stage <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom)">II</acronym>...
Jump to postengines are only worth as much as the hours/cycles left on them (TBO). An engine past calender or hours or cycles isn't worth much of anything.
Jump to postGiles, an aircraft with 14 hour legs (not sure what the 300ER is) operating a 6 hour route would not be near MTOW unless it was packed with lead. Required runway lengths are affected by heat, altitude, and takeoff weight, it is not the required length for a specific aircraft all the time. Anyways as...
Jump to posthawk21m, aircraft landing/rolling with one deflated tires makes no difference on an <acronym title="Istanbul Airlines (Turkey)">IL</acronym> as all gear assembly's are 4 wide so the load balance isn't horribly off unlike 2 wide bogie. don't know about TU204 tires, but most russian aircraft tires are...
Jump to postYes, all <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> 742's are gone. They now lease back planes sold to Air Atlanta. We get a regular Air Atlanta 742 through here at <acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym> operating for Lufthansa. When the Air ...
Jump to postHanging out,
Most don't know this, but roughly 50% of the total population of the UAE is indians.
They'd have at least one full-fare business class passenger in me if they did, as I fly between DC and <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB), United Arab Emirates">DXB</acronym> 4 times round trip every year as i am now living in Dubai. Right now I go through <acronym title="Frankfurt -...
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Jump to postAntonov-24, crashed at the end of the runway after engine failure of one engine. So far one woman confirmed dead and many badly burned passengers. Aircraft crashed into the ILS array at the end of the runway, damaging it severely.
Aircraft was full. Thoughts go out to those deceased and injured.
Yes, technically it is still <acronym title="Baghdad - International (Saddam International) (SDA / ORBS), Iraq">SDA</acronym>, but as I work at 2 airports (<acronym title="Sharjah - International (SHJ / OMSJ), United Arab Emirates">SHJ</acronym> and <acronym title="Dubai - International (DXB / OMDB)...
Jump to postIL-76's carry a small hydraulic jack about the size of 3 cereal boxes which can be used to change main or nose tires. All the aircraft travel with minimum one spare nose tire and one mlg tire, and if forward deployed for some time we will throw an extra mlg tire into the aircraft. Hub changes from o...
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