5 in 5 hand sanitizers contain a carcinogen. Alcohol.
Jump to postPretty sure those are by Zodiac
Jump to postBemidji owns the STC for the Excalibur conversion on the Queen Air and likely can do all that 720 work in house.
Jump to postTaildragger pilots often prefer grass to asphalt, as it is more forgiving and less likely to lead to a ground loop if you are too fast. Some tricycle gear aircraft handle grass better than others, usually because of ground clearance.
Jump to postAmeriflight have a bunch of Metros, Brasilias and 1900s too. I know they've been upgrading the avionics on their fleets as time goes on, so those relatively inexpensive to acquire and operate aircraft make sense.
Jump to postIn the US a pint is 16oz rather than 20oz in the Imperial system. That’s why their gallons are smaller, there are 8 pints in a gallon in both the US and Imperial systems. Imperial pints are actually 19.2 oz. Indirectly you just taught me something I never knew, US and Imperial fluid ounces are diff...
Jump to postPint of beer in the US may be less than 500ml but in the UK its 568ml...it's also often not served cold... Fred How in the heck is a pint less than 568ml?That is extremely wrong. Also noting that "warm" beer is still around 10degC (I'm not converting) and quite flavoursome and drinkable. ...
Jump to postThrottles = Piston
Power = Turboprop
Thrust = Jet.
In reality, it really doesn't matter. Throttle is a genericized term meaning that which modulates power produced by an engine. Going on about it is pedantic.
No one turned off an engine on your flight, unless one broke.
The pavement strength on the main bit of runway would I guess need to be stronger to withstand the hit of a landing aircraft so I am guessing it is a cost saving issue, given that most aircraft can be landed and stopped inside half the distance of the runway’s 14,500ft. No, they aren't going to use...
Jump to postDisplaced thresholds have nothing to do with takeoff distance. Some displaced thresholds don't even have intersecting taxiways at the threshold. They are determined by factors such as obstacles (including crossing runways), noise, nav aids and, more rarely, to artificially limit the aircraft that ca...
Jump to postSo now pilots get a reminder of a CFIT accident every time they land at LAX. That wasn't a CFIT. It was missing the C part. They were in a death spiral. Also, I think it is a good thing to be reminded of what can happen if you don't remain on your game - even on a straight in ILS/RNAV that starts d...
Jump to postGiven the advances in GA avionics, you'd think some of these RNP AR approaches would be made available to everyone.
Jump to postI'm pretty sure A380s have departed 24R at LAX . . . N1120A, why do you think this? The standard configuration for the north complex at LAX is Runway 24R for arrivals and Runway 24L for departures. The standard for the south complex is Runway 25L for arrivals and Runway 25R for departures. I operat...
Jump to postThere’s been a few, but not much success. LOL, really? Tell that to Diamond, who have had such success with diesel that they stopped building 100LL DA40s. The DA40, DA42, DA62 and upcoming DA50 all use diesel engines and operate quite nicely on Jet-A. A fine aircraft, but early DA-42s have had issu...
Jump to postGLA has had A380 service off 8,743/2,665. I'm guessing that LGW has gotten service with the A380 when using 08L/26R at 8,415/2,565. I'm pretty sure A380s have departed 24R at LAX, which is under 9000'.
Jump to post1) The A380's takeoff performance has never been a particular issue. It has plenty of power and wing. 2) Have you taken a look at BOS? It is literally in Boston Harbor, so definitely sea level. Even when Boston feels miserable in the summer, thanks to humidity, it isn't particularly hot there. For a...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:There’s been a few, but not much success.
What is the plan for control outage? Yes, radar or ADS-B is well proven but there must be some plan for failure. What do you mean control outage? Perhaps, surveillance outage—lose radar or ADS-B. I once flying in NYC, way back, and the radar went down, suddenly on a IFR night, NY TRACON instantly c...
Jump to postA backup isn't necessary legal. The whole point is to backup if you had a catastrophic failure. There is a redundant system and a pure backup. There is nothing illegal about having backup safety equipment. There is a whole category of such equipment with the acronym NORSEE, for just that purpose. T...
Jump to postThat isn’t backup navigation under a IFR flight plan with a portable gps which Zeke point was a rebuttal to earlier post suggesting that it was legal. A backup is not the same thing as what is legal for primary navigation. You can back up an ILS with a GPS, IFR or VFR, but you must fly the ILS usin...
Jump to postIt is illegal to use a VFR or portable GPS for IFR flight, or as a backup for IFR flight. All they can be used for is an aid to situational awareness. I have seen 727s and 747 classics flying direct to waypoints using nothing more than a Garmin 100 on the glare shield. It is more than just the GPS ...
Jump to postGLS approaches are not required to be straight in to the runway like an ILS. The GLS could be straight in towards the checkerboard like before then turn towards the runway threshold with the autopilot engaged to auto land on the runway. The manual maneuvering that the pilot had to do before would n...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:What is the plan for control outage? Yes, radar or ADS-B is well proven but there must be some plan for failure.
Widespread civilian GPS use came into play in the mid-90s. The majority of the civilian fleet is now using at least VFR GPS, including light GA. The vast majority of IFR flights are now using GPS - including light GA. The mainstream use of GPS in the civil sector came in the 1990s. There were many a...
Jump to postThis may be a 'Captain Obvious' question, but do the flight crew members simply get a ride to the nearest airport that has commercial service and just hitch a ride to their base or whatever hub/focus city, etc were they can get back on a normal flight schedule? Unless it is an outlier situation whe...
Jump to postThanks for the clarification, I live outside of Dulles/IAD and most of the large airports around here are pretty modernized. CAT III is hardly a "modern" concept. Exactly 2 large airports around you have CAT III approaches. IAD and BWI. Unless you also include RIC in that. DCA doesn't.
Jump to postCost and space. There is simply no need to upgrade lighting and pay the significantly increased electricity and maintenance costs on CAT I runways.
Jump to postMy guess is that it wouldn't be replaced, at least until they could do something like a GGS (a GLS to the checkerboard, like they did with the IGS), because WAAS/SBAS/LPV is not really a thing for most commercial airliners and LNAV/VNAV minima tend to be fairly high. I could totally see them doing s...
Jump to postThe MON program has significantly decreased the Victor airways in the Eastern US, especially the flatter areas that are less busy and where the MVA/MIA (which are generally not published) allow rather low IFR direct and RNAV routings.
Jump to postMy guess is that they'll end up using an FBO to handle them, which happens a fair bit at very small stations.
Jump to postWhy pay extra to install a HUD so the pilots can handfly almost as precisely as the autopilot does for free? A good hand flown approach will be more precise than an autopilot approach. A good hand flown landing will always be better than an autoland. There's a reason HUD flown approaches have becom...
Jump to postIs that why the 737-800 handily outsold the A320, despite the A320 having had a decade head start? I think that all depends on how people try and look at things, to the end of 2020 there has been 9693 A320 series delivered since EIS in 1988, over the same timeframe there has been 8476 737 series de...
Jump to postzeke wrote:Trimeresurus wrote:Still, we are talking about a period of a decade or longer when the default 737 had winglets and the A320 didn't.
Obviously the A320 wing didn’t need it to remain competitive for so long.
Ultimately, a combination of the FAA and insurance is making the decision on this. There was no way the insurance wasn't going to total that airplane.
Jump to postWith 3/3/3 you’d think they’d offer up a longer runway. 9L was the only one available for landings at the time (takeoffs were from 9R). The pilot specifically requested 10L or 10C, which were both closed. He held for 45 minutes until 10L was opened, at which time he landed. Multiple planes (biggest...
Jump to post9L has an LDA of 7500'. I can see 3-3-3 contaminated being an issue for a large transport aircraft.
Jump to postIt is pretty powerful indeed, mostly due to the fact that the same engines are being used on the bigger A220-300. If it has to be powerful enough for the big one, it's therefor overpowered for the smaller one. They were able to develop a 757-300 because the engines for the 757-200 were powerful eno...
Jump to postAFAIK a damaged aircraft (temporarily) belongs to the insurance. Then the insurance decides whether it's worth to repair the aircraft, or not. Qantas repaired the 747 which overran BKK at its own expense, insurers wanted to write off, Qantas wanted to preserve its "never had a jet hull loss&qu...
Jump to postWhile it has a decent amount of O&D, ATL is primarily focused on being a transfer hub. As such, there is less need for a second O&D airport as the security and like aren't overtaxed and the airport is pretty well located.
Jump to postCharleytuna wrote:Would saltwater immersion be a death sentence for most aircraft ? Aluminum, electrical, hydraulics .
The rest of the aircraft hit exceptionally hard, causing the pressure vessel to be breached. That airplane was way too expensive to fix.
Jump to postIt seems like in the US, vectoring is much more common, both for instrument and visual approaches, while in Europe most approaches are designed to flown via an entry (usually the end of the STAR). But vectoring is still happening from time to time, especially to shorten in the approach (in the area...
Jump to postIn the US, you'll get a LUAW once the landing aircraft has crossed the threshold or the point at which you're holding, but not necessarily after it touching down. That’s reasonable, but the FAA procedure of issuing the landing clearance to two planes both on final sounds fishy to me, too, as it doe...
Jump to postIn the US, you'll get a LUAW once the landing aircraft has crossed the threshold or the point at which you're holding, but not necessarily after it touching down.
Jump to postIn the US, visual approaches are the norm and fully instrument approaches are primarily used only 1) when needed for weather, 2) when needed for airspace or 3) when insisted on. Of course, basically every airline, quite a few 135 operators and a growing number of 91 GA pilots now load back up approa...
Jump to postBased on the airport, if you are familiar, you can also estimate when you'll be getting a clearance. Many airports that use LUAW have a fairly reasonable distance between the hold point and the point on the runway where you'll be lining up, so there's a good chance you'll get LUAW and then get takeo...
Jump to postAA flies weight restricted A321s on LIH-LAX, so there's that.
United did SNA-IAD with an A319 at one point
From the very first flight I trained in Bravo airpsace. I believe it to have been invaluable. I had much better ATC skills than most of my peers. Lots of YouTube videos showing close calls at uncontrolled fields with idiots with transponders turned off. That should be illegal too. Then you’ll need ...
Jump to postNAV Canada has been messing around with some rather busy, important airports. First the disaster closing Buttonville tower and now they want to close Windsor as well, which will likely cost them their commercial flights (more important than ever given the ridiculous partial land border closure). Thi...
Jump to postLoosely related but it’s been done. One of my good friends in college passed away in an accident and was an an intern for Delta Flight Ops, delta worked to have a fix on one of the ATL arrivals named for her. Procedures are easier to get named for people/things. Renaming something like a VOR would ...
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