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Ralgha

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

I don’t have a theory, other than I don’t think runaway stabilizer trim fits the data. On a subsequent attempt with the same full nose-down trim applied, all it took was slight back pressure on the yoke to fully arrest the descent. Is that a full-motion airline-quality simulator, absolutely not. I ...

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RE: EMB-120 Climbrate/Speed

Initial climb is 123 to 128 depending on weight, final segment climb is 135 to 170 depending on weight. Enroute climb is 170 or 180 depending on head or tailwind. Climb rates vary from 3000+ feet per minute below 10,000 feet to 500 feet per minute at 30,000 feet depending on weight and temperature.

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RE: Crosswind Landing-- Slip Vs Stall Speed

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RE: What To Expect On The PPL Practical?

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RE: Crosswind Landing-- Slip Vs Stall Speed

Your indicated stall speed will increase, but only very slightly, mostly due to the angled wind hitting the pitot/static sensors. Not enough to worry about if you're flying the approach at the proper speed.

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RE: Window Blinds Up For T/o And Landing

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RE: Window Blinds Up For T/o And Landing

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RE: Window Blinds Up For T/o And Landing

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RE: Window Blinds Up For T/o And Landing

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RE: Last Time A/C Landed On 19 Or 10 At SFO

I've landed on the 10s a few times, landed on 1R twice, 28s and 19s a bunch of times. I'd say landing on the 1s is more rare than landing on the 10s, but not by much. Departing on the 10s is as common as landing on the 19s, i.e. when they're landing on the 19s, they're also taking off on the 10s (wi...

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RE: Typical Ldg Speed Of Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia

Most of our landings are done with flaps set at 25, the speed depends on the weight, ranging from 125 at the highest weight to about 115. With flaps 45 the speeds range from about 116 to 100. If there's ice on the airplane when landing, then those speeds are increased, to a max of 140 with flaps 25 ...

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RE: Flying At 8,000 Ft-What's At 8,000 Ft.?

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RE: Toughest Airports In Terms Of Diversion Points

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RE: What Happened During My Landing?

There are many, many reasons to go-around and it is impossible to guess what caused it with any accuracy whatsoever. Your perception of the go-around is irrelevant as passenger perceptions are skewed and usually inaccurate (even if the passenger is a pilot). It is possible that the crew was hiding, ...

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RE: Bird Strikes - Need Technical Info For Story

It depends on what part of the airplane it hits. Usually nothing adverse happens and you just have to have maintenance do a "bird strike" inspection at your destination. If you're flying a turboprop and it hits one of the props, it could splatter all over the windows, thus giving the passengers some...

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RE: Waving To Airplanes

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RE: Aircraft Yoke Buttons

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RE: Aircraft Yoke Buttons

The Brasilia has pitch trim, hot-mike/transmit switch, autopilot disconnect, and a sync (or TCS) button on the outboard. In the middle is a digital clock and associated buttons.

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RE: RTO Speeds..

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

Iwok, you do not understand why the OPs premise is impossible. If it were true, then both the wheels and conveyer speeds would approach infinity, however, the wheels would always be turning faster than the conveyer. It is not possible for the conveyer speed to match the wheel speed (which is why bot...

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RE: Cockpit Instruments; Do They Have A Cache?

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

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RE: Open Source Airplane Project

Beech 1900D.

As for building it without packs...bad idea. Really, really bad idea.

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RE: Backward-Facing Seats

Think whatever you want to man, I don't really care. It's all a giant conspiracy against the little man anyway isn't it?

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RE: Need Weight & Balance Data For RockWell Commander

At the risk of sounding redundant, why did he ask you?

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RE: Need Weight & Balance Data For RockWell Commander

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RE: Backward-Facing Seats

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RE: Need Weight & Balance Data For RockWell Commander

Why did this guy contact you? Tell him to contact Rockwell.

He doesn't really need it anyway, he can get it weighed and make the W&B data from scratch.

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RE: Backward-Facing Seats

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RE: Backward-Facing Seats

One reason they haven't been adopted is because a rear-facing seat may help you survive the impact, but you'll get killed in a delightfully gruesome way by all the flying objects from the people sitting behind (infront?) of you.

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Ralgha

RE: Forgetting To Shut Down Cell Phone In Flight

I witness cell phone interference frequently. In my airplane it's most commonly interference on the comm radio, sometimes so bad that we can not hear transmissions. When I hear it on the ground, I have the FO call the flight attendant to get the offending cell phone turned off. I haven't yet had it ...

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Ralgha

RE: Using Avgas In Your Vehical?

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RE: Using Avgas In Your Vehical?

100/130 is green, 100LL is actually 100/130 they just dropped the rich rating from the name for simplicity in naming I think. Like I said, 115/145 was purple, isn't made any more, and was pretty much only for military and specialized civilian use. 100/130 (green) and 100LL (blue) are basically the s...

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

Yep, I said basically the same thing about 600 posts ago, but that's ok it bears repeating again!

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Ralgha

RE: Using Avgas In Your Vehical?

Purple avgas isn't made anymore, and for civilian use, it was only made to order. It was 115/145 octane, where as the current low-lead (blue) is 100/130, and it had more than double the lead.

[Edited 2007-08-30 20:06:25]

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RE: Landing (Stopping) Distance Of Small Aircraft

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

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RE: Getting A Saab 340 Or 2000 Rating

I would never pay for a type rating just to go to a regional with it. The only thing it will do for you is make the interviewer expect you to know everything there is to know about that airplane. You'll probably make it harder, not easier, to get the job (in the US).

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RE: Landing (Stopping) Distance Of Small Aircraft

I've stopped a C152 in about 100 feet.

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

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RE: A380 Landing Procedure?

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RE: Weird GPS On PA-28..

I vote for Photoshop rather than a cutout in the real airplane. That is where the nav head should be. Usually (but not always) if you have a KX-155, you also have a nav head. It would be stupid to put it on the right side of the panel.

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RE: Help With Becoming A Jumpseat Coordinator

Contact the exiting coordinator and ask her. Most of the time they would be happy to get you started.

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RE: Landing Tips For A Newbie

In other news, a student pilot was killed today after attempting to use landing tips obtained from anonymous posters on a public internet forum. No, but seriously dude, take everything here with a HUGE grain of salt. This is not the place for advice on how to fly, you have an instructor for a reason.

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RE: If A Plane Took Off A Conveyor Belt...

Good Lord are you people seriously still arguing about this? Every possible argument for why the airplane will not take off has been shredded by either myself or SlamClick way back up in this thread. <u>THE AIRPLANE WILL TAKE <acronym title="Omaha - Offutt AFB (OFF / KOFF), USA - Nebraska">OFF</acro...

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RE: Seniority Vs. Merit Based Promotion

Some of you seem to think that "good enough" is good enough for pilots. I've flown with captains in the simulator, that, had we been in the actual airplane, they would have scared the crap out of me. Some of them couldn't hand fly a single-engine ILS to save their life (yet somehow they manage to pa...

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RE: Stigma Associated With Working For Airline X

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RE: Stigma Associated With Working For Airline X

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RE: Stigma Associated With Working For Airline X

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RE: Stigma Associated With Working For Airline X

The ones that will look bad are as follows (I may miss some): Regionals: Gulfstream (as an FO) GoJet "Majors": Skybus Virgin America Note this is not a hard rule, you will encounter people who don't care about any of them, and others who's list includes many more. If you stay away from those four th...

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