Maybe they could get Atlas's 747s? I've seen a few pax ones flying around.
Jump to postI think contrary to what mentioned the flight deck and cabin jump seats are normally available.
Jump to postCertainly some element of this is due to the long-haul fleet being stretched extremely thin this summer. The AC aircraft I was on the other day across the Atlantic was delayed by an hour and a half. When looking at FR24, the aircraft had been playing catch up for the previous 5 of the 7 days of fli...
Jump to postJimbo, just curious how much extra do you think is needed to add to ticket prices to meet the pilots demand? Take a 175 seat jet. On a 5 hour flight its about the cost of a latte, or less than a quarter of what someone paid to hop on an über or beat up Prius to get you to the airport to increase bot...
Jump to postBoth YUL and YYZ give visual departure takeoff clearances. As of last year, YUL can also turn jets on departure. YYZ's SIDs have diverging headings built in, so the've been doing it for a while now. And as for visual approaches, like I said, airlines don't want their pilots doing shortcuts. Thanks ...
Jump to postMy understanding is that many Canadian airports can't give you a visual in the same way as the US is because of noise. They want you on the extended centerline at 3,000 feet. Down in the US they have you down to 1000 on base leg in many cases. Also due to noise they can't send departures in differen...
Jump to postSeat guru may say that. But I can confirm the old 320s are vastly more comfortable than the 737s in Y. The J is nicer in the 737s however. There is more bin space in the 737.
Jump to postI think the answer is a little more eye opening. Even in the first world it would not surprise me that any MTOW take off is done over weight. The standard weight hasn't changed in many years. Carry on baggage is getting heavier. Some routes (Jamaica at my airline) are known for pretty excessive carr...
Jump to postBlerg wrote:Seems like many airlines have ditched the E90, why is that? Are its economics more or less the same as E95 while the seat count is slightly bigger?
I wonder if these will find a home.
Maybe someone with actual experience in a 320 can comment, but in the instances I’ve seen where we have mis-managed energy in a descent, throwing the gear *early* is an easy, effective way to increase drag, slow down, and get down. Gear speed in my airplane is a full 50 knots faster than flap speed...
Jump to postI love the window.. but at 6'5" I would take the extra space for 13+ hours.
Jump to postEChid wrote:Not technically a US Domestic flight, but AC operates 333s daily between Montreal and Toronto, which is a 272 NM trip. Again, that's hub to hub though.
Its a much more intergrated system rather than an add on. We can also disable the protections by the press of two buttons and turn off all the fancy stuff.
Jump to postThe idea of any crew member having a gun on their person on an airplane is outrageous. However, just to humour those gun nuts, why would a pilot need one? Shouldn't the purser be the person to carry it? If any violent incident was to happen on an airplane, it would 99.9% happen in the cabin. The fi...
Jump to postThe single largest U.S.-Canada transborder market without a nonstop is Miami-Vancouver (and keep in mind the second and third largest transborder markets after Toronto-New York are Miami-Toronto and Miami-Montreal). It's pretty big. But yeah, it's just vacation traffic. I believe AA has done YVR-MI...
Jump to postWayexTDI wrote:deebee278 wrote:
How do you avoid bad weather when it's an airport? Stop flying when there is wind, rain and hail???
I have operated an A321 out of YYJ (just shy of 7,000 feet) without too much issue with 200 full seats and 2 jumpseaters in the summer. I know east bound to YYZ it can be a shorter flight due to winds but I think with a less dense layout, always taking off into a head wind, flap 3 and TOGA you shoul...
Jump to postCompletely depends on the plane. On the Airbus for instance in an A319 at light weights with a head wind you can slow down very quickly (only issue is Vapp is lower) but in an A321 close to MLW with minimal wind it takes longer to slow down, though luckily Vapp is higher often 140-150 so you don't n...
Jump to postMy airline uses 500 feet in VMC and IMC to be fully stable. Though we have a 1,000 foot gate where the aircraft has to be fully configured and you have to be confident you will be stable at 500 feet.
Jump to postThe packs on new 321s work great. 47 degrees in PHX last week and we kept the cabin around 21 degrees.
Jump to postAround noon yesterday, we had to hold our push for a passing DL A330. He went to T3 followed by a few emergency response vehicles. (Man the DL A330 is a good looking machine). Any one know what he was doing here? And on that note, I feel all First Officers should be well versed on airliners.net. Wh...
Jump to postYWG has lots of potential I think adding extra frequencies to already served routes but outside of that I think opportunities are limited. WS and AC fly to most of the bigger spots in Canada from Winnipeg. Westjet does connect people down to sun destinations and AC does connect people as well. The t...
Jump to postThe CYRUS visual onto 25 in SJO is fun to fly. So is the expressway visual in LGA.
It was not my leg but landing on the 01s in SFO does not leave much area to maneuver either.
On Oct 31st 2004 (I think the year is correct but I know it was halloween) I was on the last <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> 744 flight <acronym title="Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym>-<acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Mal...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BravoOne" class="quote" target="_blank">BravoOne</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>For most airlines SOP encourages George ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/qblue" class="quote" target="_blank">qblue</a> (<a href="#77" class="quote">Reply 77</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Air Namibia">SW</acronym> oper...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Viscount724" class="quote" target="_blank">Viscount724</a> (<a href="#36" class="quote">Reply 36</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> And bet...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/osubuckeyes" class="quote" target="_blank">osubuckeyes</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>That's 100% bullshit... <a href="h...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PEK777" class="quote" target="_blank">PEK777</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>This is exactly the kind of limp wrist attit...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZaphodHarkonnen" class="quote" target="_blank">ZaphodHarkonnen</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Because? If they aren't real...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/32andBelow" class="quote" target="_blank">32andBelow</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Doesn't Southwest and maybe westjet pr...
Jump to postIt sounds like it could have been an ETOPS related maintenance issue. Basically when flying ETOPS you need extra redundancies than if non-ETOPS is being conducted. Land in <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym> quickly get the...
Jump to postHaving flown into <acronym title="Alajuela (San Jose) - Juan Santamaria International (SJO / MROC), Costa Rica">SJO</acronym> before, yes what many of the posters are writing are correct about tail winds and taking 07/25. Yes they would be maneuvering visually. Whether you are visual or following an...
Jump to postAs others have mentioned <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> serves <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> from <acronym title="Ottawa - Macdonald-Cartier International / Uplands (YOW / CYOW / CUUP), Canada - Ontario">YOW</acronym>. ...
Jump to postIt's actually meant for some of the poor runway conditions in India.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/YXXMIKE" class="quote" target="_blank">YXXMIKE</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Due to Scope limi...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aerolimani" class="quote" target="_blank">aerolimani</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I think you...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Viscount724" class="quote" target="_blank">Viscount724</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Interes...
Jump to postIt depends on many many factors. Reverse is done usually at idle reverse. The point is if you need it it's there. On the airbus there is essentially 4 brake settings. Off, low, med and Max. Max is only used for take off in the event of an RTO. Many factors will decide whether you leave the brakes of...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/opethfan" class="quote" target="_blank">opethfan</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> h...
Jump to postCurious what makes a wine like that worth the price paid for it?
Jump to postYes some airlines do do it. Even some relatively reputable airlines will have you pay for your cadet ship. Some LCC and such will get you to pay 40-50 thousand dollars for a year on type if you can believe it. The Air Asia 320 that crashed had a Pay to Fly guy in the right seat if memory serves corr...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>Though the MDA needs to be corre...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sixtyseven" class="quote" target="_blank">sixtyseven</a> (<a href="#55" class="quote">Reply 55</a>):<br/><i>The two new A320s FINs 241, 242 must...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tortugamon" class="quote" target="_blank">tortugamon</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I think I ready $250k+/year for a seni...
Jump to postOne issue I can think of is the massive amount of heat required. Runways are much thicker than roads so you would have to have the heating system pretty deep it's self. This would make it hard (impossible?) to access to fix leaks or blockages in a liquid system. Perhaps if you could create a top lay...
Jump to postCatiii, as you know ATC sometimes can accommodate. This is especially true when in VMC. That being said sometimes when the weather is bad (like in <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (Glenn H Curtiss / North Beach / Municipal-La Guardia Field) (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> today) the...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/FlyHossD" class="quote" target="_blank">FlyHossD</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Generally in ...
Jump to postOften times as a pilot in can be concerning how close your speed gets to MMO especially when you are flying at a higher cost index. If you encounter any wave conditions you can see the speed start to creep up, uncomfortably so. Any major bump could cause the speed to increase. What you can do to pre...
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