Nice report. I have been to Tucson a couple times to visit the Pima Air Museum and do the AMARC Plane Boneyard tour. Our children live in El Paso and Phoenix so we fly Southwest when all possible. We always do the 24 hour early check in via the computer. The 2 free bags is a nice feature. Most usual...
Jump to postI live about 60 miles east of the Syracuse Airport. Due to the bad Weather last night at around 10:30 <acronym title="Tropic Air (Belize)">PM</acronym> EST I tuned into the Live ATC.net to listen to what was going on at <acronym title="Syracuse - Hancock International (SYR / KSYR), USA - New York">S...
Jump to postOK It looks like we got it. From the description on the website they looked more like the stake mounted devices without the spring. Also, as I remember the whole length of the pole was blue not just sections as shown on the Manufactures website. Interesting that they use Blue reflective but then the...
Jump to postRegarding the use of these Blue Rods being used for deep snow detection. That might be a possibility. But around here in upsate NY where we get a good amount of snow those rods or poles are usually a bright florescant orange color for better detection. As much as I remember the height of the rods lo...
Jump to postOn a recent trip through Detroit Metro Airport (<acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>) I noticed while taxing (daytime) that there was something strange looking next to the Blue Taxiway lights. Next to each light there was a small Blue colore...
Jump to postHal, Great report. I always enjoy reading your reports! Interesting reading regarding your segment on Orange County (John Wayne) Airport. I have read somewhere previously that John Wayne was also one of the nearby residents who often complained about the noise from the planes at Orange County.Then t...
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Jump to postWhat models of the 737 can do an autoland? Are the autoland capabilities the same for all the models? The reason I ask is that I was not aware until just recently that the 737-300, 400 and 500 can do autolands? I thought autoland was only an option available for the <acronym title="Lauda Air (Austri...
Jump to postThanks for all the input to my question. I will be flying a United and TED flight segment this coming week to <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>. Hopefully channel 9 will be active with the ATC audio. The last time I flew United it was very ...
Jump to postUnited provides ATC Audio on Channel 9 of its inflight entertainment system.
Does its affiliate TED do the same on its A320's?
Thank You,
60Victor
I was on a Continental Flight to Cleveland, Ohio earlier in the year and we had a medical emergency on board. Luckily there was a Doctor on board to attend to the elderly lady who was experiencing some sort of problem. The flight attendant announced that we would be met by medical personnel when we ...
Jump to postEnjoyed reading your trip report! Thanks for the insight on flying the A320.
Look forward to reading your future trip reports!
Could it be that they did not apply the thrust reversers as this would have
put more down pressure on the front landing gear?
Being as ILS's, VOR's, Beacon's etc. Identify in Morse Code (CW).
Are Commercial Pilots required to know or learn it?
I just returned from a round trip flight from <acronym title="Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE / KCLE), USA - Ohio">CLE</acronym> to <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym> on a Continental 737-800. Are the Continental 737-800's equipped to...
Jump to postJust glad to hear everybody survived! Well done Air France Crew! It will be interesting to find out if the plane was doing an autoland or a manual landing as another poster mentioned. On CNN earlier a planespotter witness said that it looked like the Air France A340 had landed a little deeper on the...
Jump to postHAL, Excellent report! I always enjoy reading reports from the Pilot side of things such as yours. Please do more! Being as the Airbuses are capable of doing Autolands. I did not see any mention of using Autoland during any of your landings. Are you required to do any Autolands or are they optional?...
Jump to postCan anyone tell me what a normal daily flight schedule for the FedEx feeders Caravans is? Do they always fly the same routes and destinations every day?
Thank You,
60Victor
This is the second part of my Continental trip that I posted a few days ago. The return trip would be from <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>-<acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym>-<ac...
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Jump to postThis is my first attempt at writing a trip report so here I go! Having flown many times over the years I had never flown on Continental! My home location is halfway between the upstate NY Airports of <acronym title="Syracuse - Hancock International (SYR / KSYR), USA - New York">SYR</acronym> and <ac...
Jump to postExcellent trip report! Great pictures and videos! What did you use
for taking the videos?
FedEx uses the Cessna Caravan for short haul freight operations!
How many pilots are legally required to fly it, (1 or 2)? Same question
if the Caravan is used to haul passengers?
Thank You