First- I'm from Hawaii, and I think us older folks remember the efforts AQ-HA took to kill any 3rd airline that ever tried to gain a foothold in Hawaii so at least amongst any over 50...there is no loyalty to HA because it was clear that their was no loyalty the other direction. Every family has st...
Jump to postFirst- I'm from Hawaii, and I think us older folks remember the efforts AQ-HA took to kill any 3rd airline that ever tried to gain a foothold in Hawaii so at least amongst any over 50...there is no loyalty to HA because it was clear that their was no loyalty the other direction. Every family has sto...
Jump to postAccording to AS investor info sent out regarding this merger, HA has 2 330, 14-717, and 10-A321 that are unencumbere. Could someone with knowledge speak to what this would be worth on the cash market. Thanks.
Jump to postKOA airport closed for 4 hours due to a/c incident. Anyone know why?
Jump to postThe AOA Indication isn’t a “safety feature”. The AOA Indication has little use. There are no procedures that require its use. Boeing traditionally maintained it only as a favor to AA and DL. At one time, if a customer wanted it on any model, the top Boeing Chief Pilot required the airline Chief Pil...
Jump to postI'm sure this has been discussed at length before, but now that AS will be joining OneWorld, it seems prominent to bring this up again: Will AS eventually add nonstop flights to Miami (MIA)? I realize that FLL seems to be the current Miami-area airport that leisure passengers flock to, but it would...
Jump to postJust a few points. 1) Internal communications indicated that this week's announcement was an announcement of AS's return to a single fleet. 2) The communications I have seen did not leave any uncertainty in that the plan is for all of the A/B aircraft to be gone at some point (although unannounced) ...
Jump to postHitting the TOGA switches by accident should not be a big deal, especially in a Boeing where you get immediate feedback with the movement of the thrust levers. This is going to be another one of those useless training events in a couple of years. Okay, pretend you accidentally hit the TOGA... This a...
Jump to postI agree with everything about the FO...but was the Captain asleep?
Jump to postWow... what an insensitive and incorrect comment. Taking a pay cut might not make that big of a difference. They're only going to need so many employees regardless of the payroll cost. They won't keep very many more, if any more, employees because they take a pay cut. Taking a pay cut will only hel...
Jump to postI am also surprised they aren't testing the software on the -8MAX as well. If it works on the frame that is most-affected, then it arguably should work on frames that are less-affected. And if the primary purpose of this flight was to validate the software and procedural changes, then you can plug ...
Jump to postThe sweep flights aren't usually completely empty. They usually have at least some low priority cargo that can be swapped out if necessary for a rescue.
Jump to post"International" considerations are pretty minimal in this case since we are talking about Canada. You don't want to take a transport into any airport on the coast pf SE Alaska/BC unless you are familiar.
Jump to postIt will be interesting to see if AS can remove any of the Airbuses sooner now. If pilots are furloughed by seniority, I wonder if a disproportionate number of those considered redundant might be AB pilots due to the VX group being lower on the list? I might be wrong on this...I don't know the detai...
Jump to postThat route map is terrible. When I look at a route map, I want to see: a) complete route system without having to do anything except maybe zooming in. No picking cities, etc. b) actually see routes and not just destinations. Only two aspects of a route map. Routes on a map. c) keep them up to date....
Jump to postI still question the realism of the so called “pilot shortage” that every airline and flight school in the USA is blathering on about. Other fields like healthcare have so called shortages in the amount of qualified doctors and nurses, but realistically the openings are only for bottom of the barre...
Jump to postOpps You're going to have to explain this one. O--P-P's, Are you quoting Naughty-By-Nature? if so what does that have to do with this crash? This is an aviation site and its civil aviation where we talk about an airplane accident. Therefore opp means operations. But O-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-S has only one...
Jump to postThunderbolt500 wrote:Opps
What do you think the cost of an airplane sitting on the ground for an hour because a dog pooped is going to cost the airline unless your willing to pay the bill if you cause it, they need to take the rate if incidents and their cost and pass it in to each person who brings a animal onboard. I thin...
Jump to postDensity altitude would work fine. Not to quibble, but just for explanation. This chart is a runway required chart not a take-off distance chart. Take-off distance would be shorter. Please explain yourself. Where's the difference? Gesendet von meinem SM-G800F mit Tapatalk A take-off distance chart a...
Jump to postJudging by the difference resulting from turning the packs off to increase takeoff performance, in terms of engine power the answer is "not very much but enough to be significant". To illustrate, let's calculate performance taking off from a relatively short runway in terms of long haul w...
Jump to postDensity altitude would work fine.
Not to quibble, but just for explanation. This chart is a runway required chart not a take-off distance chart. Take-off distance would be shorter.
firstofficer79 wrote:What has happened with the website Flightlevel350 ?
Many people on here are looking at AS's current route map and scratching their head and wondering what AS might do with the extra range of a NEO-LR or XLR. The answer isn't on the current route map. I dont have any inside knowledge but I have been following AS for a long time and I think it is prett...
Jump to postThere is a paywall. I find it very interesting airlines are pushing for FSA over the NMA. https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/boeings-nma-in-doubt-as-airlines-take-fresh-look-at-737-max-757-replacement/ Why doesn't Boeing just ask "What do you want your next airplane to be?" Th...
Jump to postHe might not know because the passenger did not die on-scene.
Jump to postDisregard last hypothesis. The other technical pilot who received the texts at Boeing was apparently Patrik Gustaffson who is the new 737 Chief Technical Pilot.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pagustavsson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-forkner-652355103#search Here is the link to Fokners Linked In page. 2002-2008 Alaska Airlines First Officer 2008-2011 FAA - Lead Planner ATO 2011-2018 Boeing 737 Chief Technical Pilot 2018 - Present Southwest Airlines 737 First Officer. Suspicious? It seems like an ...
Jump to postOnce the FAA says go...at what rate can 737's be delivered? I have no idea what the process is but I have a feeling there is a little more to it then telling the airlines to go to MWH and pick up their jets. Do the airlines have to take them all at once. I think most airlines have additional work to...
Jump to postThe easiest fix that doesn't seem too hard to implement (in new designs anyway) is to have the airplanes weigh themselves right before takeoff. There has got to be a way to put sensors in gear struts and get a pretty accurate weight of the aircraft. I was in a pilot meeting/training and we had a per...
Jump to postThere are several steps along the way where an airplane might get a letter added. Flight ops might add it if it conflicts with a company flight. ATC might add it if it conflicts with something in their sector (although this has never happened to me.) Or the Captain can change the call sign. Marketin...
Jump to postThanks all for the responses! I really appreciate it! Pilots using runway markings and RAAS make sense to me. I just have a question about a rare/special case in a plane without RAAS: -Suppose the "in-air" landing distance is greater than the dispatched distance (due to runway contaminati...
Jump to post...If an airline chooses to fly to an airport with a curfew, they need to follow that curfew or not fly there. I don't have a problem with that concept, just mail the DOT check back every month. No federal dollars for airports open less than 24 hours. I have been in houses next to freeways and they...
Jump to postYou better be careful what you wish for. A CX is far worse for the passengers then a delay is. I have heard of people being stuck for 3+ days because of cancelled flights. It is actually harder on the network to take these delays. Imagine an airplane was supposed to fly JFK-LAX then redeye LAX-JFK w...
Jump to post...If an airline chooses to fly to an airport with a curfew, they need to follow that curfew or not fly there. I don't have a problem with that concept, just mail the DOT check back every month. No federal dollars for airports open less than 24 hours. I have been in houses next to freeways and they...
Jump to postAirlines should pull of of LGB??? I think it has already happened. Not many airlines serve LGB. AS doesn't anymore. This is all part of the game. Set aside a piece of land, call it an airport, collect the federal money. Then restrict the airport as much as possible so that its value as an airport is...
Jump to postIf you're talking about physical changes to the airframe or engine, no. The tailskid is the only physical difference, all other enhancements are software-based. The software changes command different behavior in spoiler angle, autoslat availability, flap load relief, slat behavior (SFP 737s have th...
Jump to postLibel requires that the OP knowingly posted false information, not that the OP posted information that had not been proven beyond a legal standard. I don't know a thing about US law but I am very surprised by what you say. Can I legally publish (communicate to others than Joe X) that Joe X is a thi...
Jump to postJust some thoughts based on what was said... 1st he was detained not arrested. You can be detained based on reasonable suspicion but they must have probable cause for you to be to be arrested. I would bet money right now that he blew below .04. If he didn't, because of the nature of the charges, the...
Jump to postI don't understand twhy there is even a question. Regs only specify minimum crew. You could have 10 pilots and 7 FA's required on a BEECH 1900l for all the FAA cared. When you say you cant get an answer from the FAA do you mean the FSDO? If you are just asking at the FSDO you are probably talking to...
Jump to postSorry if this is a silly question or if this belongs in another place, but this question has been on my mind for a while and I'm getting a bit worried, as I'm planning to pursue a career in aviation pretty soon. I've been listening to ATC communications and stuff on youtube or LiveATC etc. and I'm ...
Jump to postYes the f'n fingerprints! Ughhhhhhhhhhhh!
Jump to postA quick question... Was the stick shaker active for both pilots in the ET crash? If not, wouldn't that be one of the first things to alert the crew that AOA indicator was wrong for one of them? And if that's the case how would they determine what the correct AOA was so that they could make the corr...
Jump to postPeople act like Hawaiian was gouging people on interisland flights. I never saw that. I'm not going to argue if HA was gouging or not since one man's gouge is another man's fair price. Being from Hawaii, I can tell you that unless you have some personal connection to HA, you are generally thrilled ...
Jump to postSingle pilot in the next 20 years...doubt it. Pilotless airliners...that is hilarious. We are not even close to this happening. Silly engineers! This is 50 years out at a minimum. Engineers need data, and all you see is an incredible amount of safely completed flights with a spattering of accidents,...
Jump to postOne last option...since 16L and 16R are too close together for parallel approaches, why don't we give up on the current SEA configuration and build a new terminal down the middle where 16C and T presently are. They can be modern parallel terminal design like DEN or ATL. Once the terminal is built yo...
Jump to postOr how about, utilize all 3 runways at SEA effectively. SEA has got to be the most ineffectively used 3 runway airport's in the country. I have been vectored north of PAE, driven 20+ miles out to be the #5 airplane for 16R only to fly all the way back to the airport with not a single departure/arriv...
Jump to postFirst you decide what thrust setting/assumed temp you will use for this take off. This requirement depends.on weight, environmental variables, etc. After you determine what combination you are going to use, you punch that into the FMC. Say 24k thrust with an A/T of 38c. The FMC then takes this and c...
Jump to postA question for 737 pilots, if the need for MCAS was driven by quirky aerodynamics then why should we even trust the aircraft design? I agree 100%. I. Believe that regulations need to he changed so that in order for a manufacturer to maintain a type, the analysis used must compare the proposed varia...
Jump to postOK. Thanks for the info. Can you speculate as to why 4 crews appeared to follow the former with 3 subsequently intending to return? Ta. Ray Let me start by saying I don't lay blame on the crews in either of these incidents. I've flown both A and B airplanes, not a "fan boy" for either, it...
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