the 502 bird discussed also claims to have PW2040's per it's FAA page. Since you seem to be in the know, Laxintl, what is the FAA so confused about???
Jump to postI was just aboard a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flight and the route map in Hemispheres shows all but the <acronym title="Kalispell - Glacier Park International (Flathead County) (FCA / KFCA), USA - Montana">FCA</acronym> route. Its great to see the expansion in my home state...
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Jump to postFor a few dollars more at check-in you can get economy plus. which is welcome if you are tall, but otherwise isn't a big deal. I'm sure you've read all about it here, but basically it is an economy seat with extra legroom. It runs from the front of the cabin to the last emergency exit seat. Your in-...
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Jump to postUse this nifty internet thing and look up aviation regs in Brazil. Typically, especially at the comercial and ATP levels, training and certification regulations are pretty uniform from one country to the next. You could earn your certification where you are now, and when you move it would be a matte...
Jump to postI will be the one to tell you... forget about taking photos in cruise! As has been mentioned, the relative motion is just too much for you to get a shot. Even if you do manage one you will wind up posting a fuzzy blur on A.net asking for help identifying it! A further hit against you is that separat...
Jump to postUnforturnately there is no equivalent replacement for the <acronym title="Transair (Australia)">JT</acronym>-<acronym title="Expo Aviation (Sri Lanka) and Volare Airlines (Italy)">8D</acronym>. <acronym title="Aloha Airlines (USA)">AQ</acronym> is just going to have to accept that they will need to ...
Jump to postFor all interesting sightings, review the <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> rare birds thread. I would link to it, but I don't know how and am not motivated enough to learn right now. I just looked through it, and sure enough...
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Jump to postI've taken my infant on several airline trips and I have the following advise! Leave the base at home. The car seat is just as safe with out it, and it really only causes you more work when you are moving through so many vehicles, plus it is one more thing to haul around! If you absolutely want it f...
Jump to postI saw most of the segment, it was pretty cool! This definitely wasn't his typical piece since he wasn't covered in soot or some sort of goo, but he sure talked up how much the fuel stank, thus making it "A dirty job." Definitely worth watching!
Jump to postI agree with those suggesting you hand carry the hard drive and buy a new machine when you get there. Heck, with companies like Dell who deliver the units via mail, you might be able to coordinate a new one arriving at the same time so you don't have to go shopping! But if you insist on keeping the ...
Jump to postThe a.net picture posted by CPDC10-30 offers an explanation of "why" they photoshopped it, although I still wonder why they didn't just find a better picture. The front of the nacelle on no. 2 is painted white, with the purple scheme beginning a couple feet back. This journalist wanted a "classic" a...
Jump to postHi there fellow Airborne A-netters! When we learn to fly, we make a supervised cross-country, then typically follow the same route for our solo cross countries. I'ts pretty much fool proof success on the solos since the route and airports are now familiar. I learned to fly in Hawaii, which made visu...
Jump to postThanks for the good news guys! I didn't think it would be such a simple thing to do. We've settled on <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> all the way since between us we have enough miles for two standard award tickets, and I just got confirmation that they will be on the <acronym ti...
Jump to postMy stint as a <acronym title="Martinair (Netherlands)">MP</acronym> premier exec has been nice, and it has come through in a pinch for me a time or two! Alas, though, more woes of biz travel mean my miles have been rolling in at top speed for a year and a half now, but the brick wall is in sight! I ...
Jump to postAlright, I have a brewing dilemma. I am in the military, being transferred from <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> to <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym>. Going throug...
Jump to postOh, man! I really thought the new study about the fuel efficiency gained with the "high speed, low drag" nacelle that houses the <acronym title="Transair (Australia)">JT</acronym>-<acronym title="Expo Aviation (Sri Lanka) and Volare Airlines (Italy)">8D</acronym> was going to give that program a res...
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Jump to postI'm sure the answer to the following question lies somewhere in the vastness that is the A-net forum search function.... But since the airline the Original poster is dealing with is <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, what the heck ever happened to "Simplifares?" I personally don't ...
Jump to postThis is straight business, <acronym title="Providence - Theodore Francis Green State (PVD / KPVD), USA - Rhode Island">PVD</acronym> would be the customer and would need to approach <acronym title="Frontier Airlines (USA)">F9</acronym>, the supplier, with a case to make the business worth their whil...
Jump to postSorry for the delay in getting back to you, Stylo777... The best way I know to tell a 733 from a 735 is to look at how stumpy the plane looks. 733 and 73G look failry proportionate, more along the lines of a 763, while the 735/6 seem really short, and their tail looks big... because it is bigger! (D...
Jump to postI would say the first step is to familiarize yourself with the basic types: Be able to differentiate a 737 from an A32X etc. Each type has some pretty characteristic looks that a little basic photo studying can teach you. For example, the 737 sits low to the ground while the 32X is elevated; the 737...
Jump to postHere is a money saving ideas for you: Rather than buy two tickets seperately or risk some kind of <acronym title="Tower Air (USA)">FF</acronym> penalty from the airline, book the trip as one multi-destination itinerary. I just plugged your dates into Delta's website and came up with a total fare of ...
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Jump to postAC would like to get the best value out of their flight: They can pick up connecting traffic and o/d out of <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> better than they can in <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK...
Jump to postCongrats on your decision to fly! I want to counter those who are saying you HAVE to fly more often than what you are planning.... but I will re-emphasize the risk. Fly because you want to and fly for the reasons you want to! Not everyone who gets a private ticket has to be a wannabe ATP. I for inst...
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Jump to postThe local perspective here in Hqwaii is very mixed. A lot of folks are taking the "locals only" attitude, saying they will only fly <acronym title="Hawaiian Airlines (USA)">HA</acronym> or <acronym title="Aloha Airlines (USA)">AQ</acronym> but at the same time a lot of people are taking the "economi...
Jump to postSince you want to be a licensed pilot one day, may I suggest starting out on some self-study ground school? There are a lot of text books and computer based training courses out there that can guide you step by step... and depending on the training route you choose could even satisfy some ground tra...
Jump to postNRT is very valuable to both carriers, especially <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> with their much larger route structure there. Just as any hub allows you to maximize the destination choices from any point of origin, <acronym title="Tokyo - Narita International (New Tokyo) (NR...
Jump to postWN should take these websites as a cue and sell the right to board in the A group! I dare say the average frequent <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> traveler would take advantage of a slightly higher fare option (say, a $5 surcharge?) to guarantee the A group at the time of book...
Jump to postOne pilot, sure, but he would still need an <acronym title="Royal Khmer Airlines (Cambodia)">FE</acronym> to manage the systems. Granted it would not be the safest thing in the world (hence the 2-pilot legal thing), but if the pilot is very familiar with the particulars of the route and and the vari...
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Jump to postThere are other things to consider besides raw motor fuel use when comparing the economy of land transportation vs. air transportation. For instance, unless the motorists will be camping roadside each night, there are the economics of renting a hotel room (or three rooms if you are filling up that s...
Jump to postIIRC, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> was the only airline still utilizing the system when it was officially retired several months ago. Yes, someone probably could have fixed it, but the amount of money and time that would have been required had already been spent. It was a gran...
Jump to postOk, here are some questions from a non-instrument rated, non-avionics tech guy. 1. We lost both radios, but isn't it typical that your NAV radios are integrated with your COM radios... Hence the COMNAV name we give them? If you lose communications you have also lost your VOR and ILS indications, rig...
Jump to postMany ways to skin a cat... and they all really do the same thing. Obviously if you have fouling you need to either remove and scrub the plugs or "cook" it off, and I think one of those options is unlikely once you get to the run-up pad. The key here, no matter what your procedure is, is to watch the...
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Jump to postAirliners glide much better than the general public seems to believe. Number one thing to do if all engines fail is to try to find out why (well, after stabilizing the airplane though). Lets take the simple example of a single engine piston. For the engine to stop working one casualty from a fairly ...
Jump to postLike Jbird' said above, 121.5 is the preffered way to get help since everyone is monitoring it. There arel always other options though! Any ATC facility that you can contact can provide the help you need, so even if you are flying VFR in the vicinity of a controlled airport, you can go straight to t...
Jump to postGlad you got to experience the high quality <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> service! Actually since you are in Seattle I'm surprised you haven't seen it before. I remember many years ago when they were still flying metros around (19 seats and NO <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)"...
Jump to postI travel with computer equipment all the time! In my job we have a number of "ruggedized" <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym>'s that are necessary for our work. One of them is designed to fit in a custom made rolling, soft sided suitcase. It weighs in ...
Jump to postHow many Mileage Plus miles do you have???? The latest Screw the telephone booking and look for your flight on United's website. The standard award level, which is unrestricted, for flights to Europe is 80,000 while flights to West Asia are 100,000. Their latest chart doesn't reflect SAA's joining S...
Jump to postI had suspected <acronym title="Aloha Airlines (USA)">AQ</acronym> would order from Embraer sometime in the near future to replace the 732s. Of course this doesn't mean they can't, but one of the signature points of inter-island flying has been the distinct difference in aircraft image between <acro...
Jump to postI may be out to lunch here, but doesn't the combustion also increase the volume (mass may be a better word) of the gas at the same time as the heat increases the pressure, thereby adding even more energy potential? The amount of power that is gained from combustion engines versus weight of the machi...
Jump to postLooks like this plan is calling the reserve gas "hold." I can't speak from a dispatcher's point of view, but I would imagine that on scheduled routes the operator knows how long the aircraft will spend in approach patterns waiting for other traffic, and would factor that into the planned trip fuel. ...
Jump to postA couple of years ago I was on a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> flight, a 763 ...
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