Re: How have you reduced your carbon footprint?

cjg225 wrote:

KAUSpilot wrote:

Killed myself.

Sounds like you're the boss in the Lonely Island video.

Re: How have you reduced your carbon footprint?

Killed myself.

Re: What degree of bank angle is used by jetliners when making large wide turns?

Any airline pilot pulling 2G outside of an upset recovery would be looking for new employment in short order. In most phases of flight and weights that load factor will trigger stick shaker. Even when hand flying without the flight director, which is rare, 25-30 degrees should be the maximum for pil...

Re: Pilot E145 directly to 777

I went directly from the 145 to the 747 a long time ago. No, I wasn't the best at 747 landings right away but that's what sim training and IOE are for. Luckily I was in a freighter so no one cared too much while I was learning the sight picture of the 747. I'm sure Swayne will be fine.

Re: What degree of bank angle is used by jetliners when making large wide turns?

25 degrees of bank is the limit for the autopilot and flight director in my aircraft (B744/748). This only takes the load factor to 1.1 G in level flight, which is still comfortable. Additionally this allows the aircraft to inadvertently bank an additional 15 degrees (to 40 degrees) before stick sha...

Re: Cathay Pacific Suspends 747F and Cargo-Only Pax Flights for 7 Days

Hong Kongers, and especially the mainland Chinese seem to enjoy punishing the evil gweilo aircrew for doing their jobs! If it's not painfully obvious that Cathay has been scheduled for death by the CCP at this point, open your eyes. Greater Bay and/or a variety of mainland airlines are posed to feas...

Re: Emirates serious incident on takeoff on EK231 DXB-IAD on 20 December 2021

There has been a massive brain drain at EK. Many trainers and experienced pilots left either voluntarily or were forced out during COVID over the last 2 years. The problem started well before Covid due to deteriorating rosters and compensation. Fly them at your own risk! This kind of incident is ine...

Re: Southwest CEO tests positive for Covid-19

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/586560-fauci-says-mask-wearing-on-planes-could-be-here

You were saying?

Re: CX Working With Airbus on Single-Pilot System for A350 With 2025 EIS

Why are so many people eager to see hundreds of thousands of professional out of work? I mean there is a real sense of glee and eagerness about this on the part of many. Jealousy/resentment? Hard to say, but you can't deny how glib so many of you on this site are about the potential to put all pilot...

Re: Block hours in a small piston aircraft

LOL at the posters trying to criticize FAA standards while he has an EASA license. Cathay pilots living up to their reputation. MaxQ is correct. Aviation certainly attracts more than its fair share of a-holes.

Re: Engine failure question

The philosophy on the course of action to take after an engine failure in a 747 seems to vary from airline to airline. At my previous job it was generally accepted that you will probably not continue if you are more than a few hours away from your destination (divert to kef or snn if on the NAT, may...

Re: Plane crash in Jacksonville

Not correct! Corrosion Corner was named after the many propliners that were abandoned on the northwest corner of the airport in the 60 and 70s. I spent many years on the North side of MIA. It’s no longer Corrosion Corner and is known as the NW36th Street gang. Miami Air is a solid airline, operatin...

Re: 747-400 Engine types and different fuel efficiency

I've read that RR are the most efficient, but most expensive to acquire/maintain, GE's the opposite & P&W in between the two in both aspects.

Re: EMB-145 Take Off

EMB-145 used to require an "ice test" on the first flight of the day, which involved an engine runup, then opening the wing, stabilizer, and engine anti-ice valves briefly to make sure the ice protection system worked, iirc. It has been almost 10 years since I flew the jet so I'm not sure ...

Re: Runway slope difference

Luxembourg airport and Campinas/Veracopas Brazil (VCP) are the only ones that come to mind. They both have a hump near the touchdown zone on one end that will make for very hard landings if not expected. Most airliners I've flown have a limitation that runway slope not exceed +/- 2% of runway length.

Re: Cargo Aircraft Economics

It would be interesting to know how a new freighter is used as opposed to a used one. Consistent with previous posters the new ones would spend more time in the air (although that would not take cycles into account). I can tell you that where I work, one fleet has mostly factory-built freighters pu...

Re: Cargo Aircraft Economics

Simply put, it's the number of flight cycles the aircraft undergoes. Most cargo jets do one or two flights per day and many get the weekends off. A passenger airline's widebody jets are often flying around-the-clock minus the time they need to unload and load passengers. The narrow bodies are probab...

Re: Arrangements for aircraft parked overnight

No precautions are taken, at least where I work. The water/waste tanks can and do freeze. Once the airplane is powered up they are heated and thaw out within an hour or so. The waste/water systems are heated electrically on most types AFAIK. They are not filled to capacity with fluid so they don't r...

Re: Cargo Pilots

I work for an airline that flies both pax and cargo configurations of the same types of aircraft. The pilots are the same. There is a computer based training module that covers the differences for the cargo jets (although on some fleet types the pax jets are considered the "different" ones...

Re: Low speed RTO

It could be anything, but my speculation would be an engine bleed or engine FADEC issue of some sort since it seems to happen when power is applied. I seriously doubt they would have two RTO's consecutively for the takeoff configuration warning unless something was wrong with that warning system. Th...

Re: Why do they park like this at IAH?

It doesn't have anything to do with thunderstorms or EDCT.

Re: Why do they park like this at IAH?