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Re: Delta to launch flight academy.

Direct link to above announcement...

https://news.delta.com/delta-launches-propel-flight-academy-train-next-generation-airline-pilots

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Delta to launch flight academy.

https://aerocrewnews.com/aviation-news/aviator-bulletins/delta-to-launch-flight-academy-first-students-start-in-june/

Looks like DL is going the way of Easyjet.

If this is not the right forum, mods please move.

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Re: Cheques/checks - do they still exist where you are? If so, how widely are they used?

Florida. In general, all major businesses will accept payment via credit cards so I pay all of them by my American Express card or for the few businesses that won't accept AMEX I use a VISA card. I then pay these cards via debit from my bank checking account. This takes care of the monthly, quarterl...

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Re: Passenger lands Cessna Caravan after pilot has medical emergency

The latter part of the flight instructions were done using the pilots and instructor's cell phones so probably no recording exists. Fantastic job by all involved!

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Re: Southern Airways (old) MEM hub

In early 1971 because of a contract I was working on I needed to get out of the country ASAP. That required a Yellow Fever shot which in 1971 was only given at select military bases and during that week in Florida it was Eglin Air Force Base. So the company put me on a Southern flight from MCO to Eg...

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Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - Q1 2022

Looks like Covid has finally hit Hong Kong badly despite a 'Covid Zero' policy.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/asia/hong-kong-covid-crisis-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

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Re: What type of HVAC system do you have?

I have a 3 ton 19 seer Goodman and a 2.5 ton 14 seer (15 year old) F22 Goodman. I picked Goodman for the new one because they have the longest compressor guarantee. Heating is via reverse cycle on both although both air handlers will accept heat strips. The 19 seer compressor is multispeed as is the...

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Re: Stellantis says politicians NOT people want EVs + more lies

This is probably the best datasheet you'll get on the subject. These are Bjoern Nyland's own notes. The worlds premier real world EV-tester https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzvvWJHrBS82echMVJH37kwgjE/edit?usp=sharing The easiest tab for real life consumption under normal dri...

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Re: Stellantis says politicians NOT people want EVs + more lies

Being a engineer and thus a numbers guy, I took a look at some numbers for my ICE car (a 2010 Lexus GS). I get about 400 miles on a tankful of gas which will get me about 10 days or so .. or about 40 miles/day .. so basically any EV would work for range. Gas in Orlando is now 3:45 a gallon, so 17.5 ...

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Re: FAA to prohibit many flight operations due to risk of ‘5G’ wireless interference

I'm a little surprised that the companies that make the radar altimeters aren't looking for a solution that doesn't require replacing the boxes .... maybe they are. As an engineer, my first thought would be a narrow bandpass filter to reject the 5G frequencies inserted in the coax antenna lead from ...

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Re: Southwest pilot broadcasts political views to pax

Haven't we heard of way too many instances where some passenger has gone violently bezerk for some antivax/antimask reason. This kind of announcement from a pilot could very well trigger some antimask passenger to action when he hears he has an ally in the cockpit after building a lot of steam bein...

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Re: COVID-19 Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread, Q3 2021

Looks like Delta is getting serious about the vaccine. Brings a real number to what unvaccinated people cost companies. Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessar...

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Re: COVID-19 News and Reference Thread

Delta to require full employee vaccination beginning Nov 1 or pay $200 per month to offset costs which are about $40,000 per hospital stay. https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/delta-air-lines-make-unvaccinated-employees-pay-charge-79637347?cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_headlines_h...

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Re: Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19

I successfully managed to reach escape velocity and get out of Tennessee almost 60 years ago. It's full of uneducated and non-thinking people who elect like people to local government. Granted Florida may not be much better. If you read the article, some of the Republicans in the legislature are act...

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Re: New phone- help me choose

Samsung A52 is worth a look over the S21... It has a couple classic features the S21 doesn't, like sdcard slot and 3.5mm jack, with just some slightly lower specs overall and a significant price drop. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk Unfortunately, it also does not have 5G.The A52 5G does....

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

Did anyone post which new employees would be required to get vaccinated, we see a lot of talk about other countries requiring vaccinated travelers and or flight crew, unfortunately, the majority of employees at DL and all other airlines are not flight crew. So a youngster just out of high school lo...

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Re: US counties split 70 to 30 GDP in last election

I can't seem to find it now .. maybe a blog post .. that showed the number of workers supporting retires. In Japan it is almost one to one and we are headed that way That will have major implications for the US economy. Historically, this ratio creep has been stalled by immigration of younger workin...

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Re: US counties split 70 to 30 GDP in last election

Visual Capitalist has a great infographic they update every couple years showing the GDP strength by metro region. It really illustrates the above point, and which states have relative economic strength. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/us-metro-areas-by-gdp.jpg Just a no...

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US counties split 70 to 30 GDP in last election

Just read an interesting article put out by Brookings well known for their economic reports and other things. They surveyed all the counties in the last election and found that the counties that Trump won represent about 30 percent of the GDP while the ones Biden won are 70 percent of the GDP. A lar...

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

And if I was previously infected with covid, had mild/no symptoms, and have antibodies for it, how likely am I to get reinfected with a bad infection and shed virus and infect others (most of whom are vaccinated?) If the vaccine is as effective as they say, and since the CDC now says vaccinated peo...

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

Jose .. you seem to be hung up on death rates .. for sure a concern but not the only immediate health risk. In some cases the long term effects may cause you to wish you were dead! However, by far the worse public problem is the transmission rate which the vaccines will greatly if not totally reduce...

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

Is there any history at Delta, or any other airline for that matter, that says an individual crewmember cannot fly to a certain country because of a situation unique to that individual? I'm thinking of not having taken the covid vaccine obviously. They would require an interesting crew travel manage...

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

This matter will ultimately need to be litigated, and will probably reach the Supreme Court eventually. That's an interesting point. Maybe virus spreading to the public .. while easily preventable by a vaccine .. can be compared to smoking .. easily preventable by not smoking in public. Smoking use...

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Re: Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

Everyone has a lot to say in America. Til they experience something bad that opens their eyes...then they dont pontificate as much. It is the American way. Good for Delta! I hope they require all employees to get it shortly. Those that chose not to get it...can stay home...without pay or get a medi...

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Delta to require new employees be vaccinated..

I guess that Delta was the first US airline to do this. In addition to giving their own employees confidence in the vaccinated state of the people they have to work with, it will also attract customers that liked the empty middle seats also. In the article, it says Delta has vaccinated 60 percent (e...

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Re: 8 people killed in shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis

After all, who wants to admit that they spent a lot of money on something that is .. in all probability .. basically useless? Because it is something that brings them fun. Same reason why a sports fisher spends money on equipment, only to put the fish back in the water after taking a selfie. Same r...

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Re: 8 people killed in shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis

The easiest way for me to justify anything that costs more than a small amount of money but has no really necessary benefit is to consider it a toy. That's how I justified three motorcycles (only one needed for transportation) and an airplane (pure pleasure and expensive). But these were "ratio...

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Re: Delta to launch PDX-ICN in September 2021

I made that PDX, Seoul (Gimpo), Taipei, Bangkok RT many times in the early 90's.

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Re: COVID-19 Vaccine News and Discussion Thread

This is the good news I was waiting for. Proof that the vaccines are working. :) "On Thursday morning, the CDC said it had reports of approximately 5,800 so-called breakthrough infections, out of the nearly 77 million individuals in the United States who have been fully vaccinated. Such cases a...

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Re: Will airlines require COVID vaccine for employees?

Im cabin crew (flight attendant) with an European airline for the last 20+ years. My contact has always the had the clause relating to "any vaccines for operation to certain destinations are required" It would be interesting to know if a similar clause is included in the US airline contra...

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Re: Will airlines require COVID vaccine for employees?

I'm not sure about the EU countries, but it's almost a sure bet that the Asian countries will require flight crews to be vaccinated .. and they will start with their own airline crews. That will happen when the vaccines become available to everyone who wants them. At that point, delays and excuses w...

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Re: Are Delta's 777LRs going to FedEx?

Delta retired all the 777's from the fleet, but who is the current owner of the planes ... a leasing company maybe? I'm curious whose pilots would actually be flying the plane to Moses Lake. Also, the planes have been sitting for months, but they must still be being maintained (I doubt by Delta) an...

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Re: Are Delta's 777LRs going to FedEx?

Delta retired all the 777's from the fleet, but who is the current owner of the planes ... a leasing company maybe? I'm curious whose pilots would actually be flying the plane to Moses Lake. Also, the planes have been sitting for months, but they must still be being maintained (I doubt by Delta) and...

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Re: What is Delta Doing?

I find what is more interesting is the permanent elimination of change fees. That will make a lot of people happy .. starting with me.

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Re: What colour temperature do you prefer in your home?

Color TV manufacturers use to deliberately set the gray scale temperature to 2700-3000 because if it were set to 6500 (white) no one would buy it even though that is correct. As a result the colors for everything were screwed up. Now most LED TV's allow the color temperature to be set correctly. I a...

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Re: DC-8 survivors thread 2021

Given that the DC-8's are down to the one'sy-two'sy range is Boeing still supplying support for them? I guess with all the ones that were scrapped parts must not be an issue, but you probably don't sent them to a maintenance facility for overhaul .. such as the majors do.

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Re: UA328 engine explosion at DEN

If you lost the entire engine and pylon on a 777, do the ailerons have enough control authority to overcome the weight imbalance? The DC10 accident in Chicago is probably a poor example because when the engine went over the wing .. and the aircraft connections separated .. other parts of the lateral...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

BEFORE any of those cues, your back should tell you there’s a lot of yaw be applied to the plane. Yes, you can tell some thing wrong by the feel of the plane, the sounds or in the seat of your pants. Especially with a lot of hours in-type, as this captain had. Compare to that Ameristar MD80 captain...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

Question. At the point of autopilot disconnect, was the flight recoverable? What would the corrective action be? Could you hypothetically roll right and get wings level or would you roll left and barrel it? I know it sounds extreme, but in a life or death scenario, what would work? I also understan...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

Question. At the point of autopilot disconnect, was the flight recoverable? What would the corrective action be? Could you hypothetically roll right and get wings level or would you roll left and barrel it? I know it sounds extreme, but in a life or death scenario, what would work? I also understan...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

...if the system is operating correctly it will maintain whatever thrust mismatch exists when the autothrottle is engaged as it moves the throttles equally to command more or less thrust according to the airspeed With my experience not being on the 737 but familiarity with Boeing design philosophy ...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

The engineer in me would sure like to see a block diagram of the autothrottle system to see how it is implemented. The thrust change required ( I assume based on airspeed error) has to be the split between the two engines, but how is that value acquired and how is it split between the two engines? ...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

The engineer in me would sure like to see a block diagram of the autothrottle system to see how it is implemented. The thrust change required ( I assume based on airspeed error) has to be the split between the two engines, but how is that value acquired and how is it split between the two engines? Y...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

Not jets but in all the twin pistons I've flown the mechanics working on them told me that the max mismatch was a half knob at normal cruise setting. The pics that Zeke posted show a mismatch that should have been caught in the power runup for takeoff and the plane should never have left the ground....

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Re: 4Q20 $/ops comparisons AA/DL/UA/WN/AS/B6

Delta is extending the middle seat block through April. Must be working for them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/02/08/delta-plans-block-middle-seats-through-april-amid-covid-pandemic/4435773001/

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Re: 30 Years Ago Today: Eastern Air Lines Ceases Operations

Did Eastern once fly Electra's? I seem to remember flying one out of Knoxville in the mid '60's .. or maybe my memory has zoned out!

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Re: Pro-Trump Riot in US Capital Building

Snopes says this is false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/capitol-riot-taser-death/

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

We've had several cases of total loss of plane control surfaces like the DC-10 that lost all hydraulics due to engine failure severing all systems and the JAL 747 that had the rear pressure bulkhead failure do the same. These were zero deflection failures, but the only hard over control failures th...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

We've had several cases of total loss of plane control surfaces like the DC-10 that lost all hydraulics due to engine failure severing all systems and the JAL 747 that had the rear pressure bulkhead failure do the same. These were zero deflection failures, but the only hard over control failures tha...

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Re: Sriwijaya Air 737-500 (SJ182 CGK-PNK) crashes shortly after takeoff

I would assume at this point in the flight that the plane would have been on autopilot and flying a profile commanded by the FMS. Planes get hit by lightning all the time and survive so that doesn't seem likely. Still seems like a total lose of control very quickly if not instantaneously. It's hard ...

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