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Re: Question re ILS + STAR approaches

Or do you have to fiddle with editing the plan in the FMC. Martinlest, yes, sometimes you do, depending on how the procedures (STAR/approach) load into the FMS, based upon transitions, VIAs, etc. As you can tell from the previous responses, the best "takeaway" I can offer you in this case...

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Re: Studying before PPL training

What if I already received my 3rd class medical? I don’t know if I will be able to have time to schedule a first class medical just yet. Thanks I agree with GalaxyFlyer above. Your 3rd class medical is fine for now; don't worry about getting another. Just go ahead and start your training, and when ...

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Re: Studying before PPL training

I feel like aviation is my home, and I feel like I would be most willing to study it and thrive with it as the environment. Of course that feeling could change in few years time when I actually apply to college, but I've felt this way for my whole life so far. Boeing757100, your goals are admirable...

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Re: El Paso Aviation - 2023

PA12 wrote:
And why do you think ELP cant support a flight to MDW but it can to ORD? What’s the difference?

International connections.

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Re: The use of integral air stairs

How would you use the door to which they were attached in an evacuation.? ozark1 (topic author), reference your question above relative to the Lockheed L-188 Electra. Take a look at the video at 0+12. The quality is not particularly good, but is this what you are asking about? https://www.youtube.c...

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Re: Terminal T Expansion at ATL

This is my understanding, also.

T as in Terminal gates.

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Re: Why do different cities in India have different transition altitudes?

transition altitude/transition level (one is used in climb, other in descend, dont remember which one is which) transition altitude is normally used in the climb --altitude where pilot is required to change from local QNH to standard 1013 / 29.92; transition level used during descent -change from s...

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Re: Airbus descent procedure?

Martinlest, at my operator, in the Training Department we teach that a smooth, well planned descent begins with an accurate Top of Descent point and maintaining good situational awareness throughout the descent and approach. It helps make the entire descent process very straightforward. If you have ...

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Re: 787 vs A330 Runway Performance/Requirements

Pilots are conservative creatures and in the decades gone by where we did on occasion use charts, there was excessive rounding up and intercalation. As much as we would like to have very precise data, my impression is that even using an app or other electronically calculated data, there is still co...

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Re: International Flights' Listed Alternate Airport Questions

* Flight plan is officially filed. * This flight plan is placed into a computer system that notifies the FAA (?) as well as airports en-route. * The alternate airport is notified, as is the FIS station. * Some type of "stand-by" mode is in effect until the plane either arrives at the dest...

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Re: who should do the walkaround ?

I'm doing a study about who should do the walkaround check? Also sometimes called the "Exterior Inspection." shoaa (Topic author), I have flown for two airlines in the United States + USAF. This is my experience: Airline # 1: If two pilot crew--C, F/O--the First Officer did the exterior i...

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Re: Two new Skywest planes in one month

Very interesting! Thanks for updating us. I've actually heard that planes can smell pretty nasty to the gate agents who open the door after a long flight. Is that true? Most entry/exit doors to commercial passenger jets are located by a galley. And often, entry/exit doors on commercial aircraft are...

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Re: Flaps and aborted landings/go-arounds

As always, fly the airplane first! 100 percent agree. And don't forget the priority order: Aviate Navigate Communicate the great threat is the distraction of ATC issuing multiple clearances during the go-around. It can be problematic to listen to the clearances while also trying to listen to the go...

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Re: Deltas Old A320s

N649DL wrote:
N309NW

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Perhaps N309US

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Re: Weight reductions in freighters

AirKevin wrote:
So the pilots don't have coffee?

They do! But it is loaded in a thermos or other portable, insulated container.

For me, no coffee, well, that would be a “no-go” item

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Re: Parallel Runway Ops

LAX uses LUAW for basically all departures. This is to increase runway usage with IFR spacing. Can you explain what all that means? AAPilot48Heavy, I am not an air traffic controller, but here is my best explanation to you based on flight experience: Air Traffic Controllers must maintain minimum ai...

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Re: What aircraft type flew the migrants from Florida to Martha's Vineyard?

http://www.rzjets.net and http://www.ultimatejetcharters.com

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Re: Autobrake question: MAX vs. RTO, and performance (and pax)

Departure Attain as much altitude as possible before reaching residential areas. Use full length of runway when able. rjsampson, the interpretation I get from the specified procedure is twofold: First, "use full length of runway when able," implies a reduced thrust (flex) takeoff thrust s...

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Re: International flights arriving a day before

3D101CA, I would like to emphasize the source mentioned above by kalvado (Reply # 2) concerning the International Date Line to help explain why some eastbound flights from Asia to the United States arrive a day prior to departure. As you travel from west to east, the local time becomes progressively...

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Re: Fuel Planning Questions

How are "radar vector" departures and arrivals fuel planned? An example would be the Newark 4 departure where radar vectors are given after a climb. Are extra track miles added to account for the radar vectoring, or is extra fuel added in another way, or is just the direct distance used (...

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Re: Flaps and aborted landings/go-arounds

We’ll also practice go around where there no climb required or a go around where we have to continue descending, so it’s interesting to see the different types of go around where you don’t climb immediately, but to sequence the FMS for go around, you still have to bring the thrust levers to TOGA, b...

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Re: Expressjet/aha! Files for Bankruptcy

capejet wrote:
Were all their pilots based out of, and living out of Reno? So they all have to up and move again?

Not if they commuted from wherever they live to their crew base.

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Re: Flaps and aborted landings/go-arounds

I'm also guessing this can be a huge workload almost instantly in which a lot of things need to happen at the same time Yes, there are quite a few items that need to occur when executing a go around or missed approach--power and pitch, configuration changes, and call outs--but we train this procedu...

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Re: Current PDX Gate Closures

AlnessW wrote:
Alaskan

AlnessW, very minor correction.

Alaska.

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Re: 777-200ERs Keep Soldiering On

SueD wrote:
Delaxio wrote:
I was browsing on Flighradar24 and saw an El Al 77E leaving Phuket. I thought they retired them!

4X-ECD has been reactivated for some weeks now

El Al Boeing 777-258ER, 4X-ECB, is active.

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Re: Question on boeing B777-300

laflip wrote:
Air France is good company

Yes, it is.

Air France has been in business for almost 89 years (established 1933).

They also helped establish many airlines around the world and provided them with operational and technical support.

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Re: The future? Bigger jets?

Would anyone be able to chime in with examples of initial cruise speed (Mach) vs. the hurry-up speed? Seems like mmo isn’t too far off from typical cruise speeds. Would they push it to the edge of the barber pole? rjsampson, at my carrier, in the Airbus A-320 series, a typical cruise mach (U.S. dom...

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Re: Allegheny Airlines Fleet in 1972

Convair 580, and Allegheny referred to them as “Vistacruisers.”

Also, in 1972, Baltimore airport was still BAL.

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Re: Why no single-engine GA aircraft with contrarotating propellers?

GalaxyFlyer wrote:
the only other CLT plane I can think of is the T-38.

GalaxyFlyer, I always understood the T-37 was also center line thrust. Is that correct?

It certainly didn't require much rudder in an engine-out situation.

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Re: Turkish Airlines- dangerous countries and crew safety

do pilots and cabin crew turn around back home once they arrive? 3D101CA, yes, this is one way to handle the situation. There are various methods. As stated above by bluecrew, you can also augment if the total time fits within regulatory requirements. In your example, IST-BGW is blocked around thre...

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Re: Cities Pilots and Flight Crews like best/don't like to travel to

ACDC8, your post made me smile! Always felt sorry for the crews that have to overnight in Fort McMurray or Saskatoon lol. Don't feel sorry for them (at least not for those going to Saskatoon). Well, I can't speak for Fort McMurray, but my company serves Saskatoon and it's a nice layover. Now I don't...

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Re: What is faster in baggage loading, bulk loaded or container loaded?

zeke wrote:
Also fewer injuries when loaded by containers.

Could you provide a reference. I think it would be interesting to see the stats re: injuries sustained bulk load vs. container load. Thanks.

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Re: AA6092 20JUL - TCAS maneuver - how common?

How common is TCAS (RA) activation in normal operations? And why does it seem that the crew chose to embellish the situation to the passengers, making it sound more serious than it was? You’d think that they would try to downplay the situation. How common is it to sensationalize things over the PA?...

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Re: 737 Bounced landing and then go around -serious incident?

the 738 I was travelling on landed hard, bounced a couple of times. . . I was curious to know if that had potential to be more serious? Marksw76, with regard to your question about "potential to be more serious," at my operator, our operations procedures require that in the event of a har...

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Re: High temperatures and take off runs

generally freight gets offloaded first. and . . . in addition to reducing cargo load, I have also employed a few of these creative techniques: - consider various iterations of flap setting; runway and climb conditions permitting - request longest available runway or runway most favorable for enviro...

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Re: Bonanza Airlines IATA code.....

All the identifiers specified above are correct:

BL - Bonanza
WC - West Coast
PC - Pacific
RW- Air West / Hughes Airwest

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Re: touring behind the scenes

That was at Phoenix Mesa-Gateway (AZA / KIWA)?

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Re: touring behind the scenes

deleted. Duplicate post in error.

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Re: touring behind the scenes

Ive seen videos of reporters behind the scenes at airports in areas that (I thought) are restricted to employees In general, they are under escort by airport or airline personnel with the appropriate security clearance to be in that particular location. Also, depending on the area being visited, th...

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Re: Air France 447: 13 years on

Obviously training has evolved, and continues to do so, based upon advances in avionics, equipment, automation, and what can be learned from prior accidents and incidents, among other influences. Upset recovery, as we refer to it today, was previously called "Unusual attitude recovery," an...

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Re: Could retired pilots help the pilot shortage?

If airlines were able to convince more women to become pilots this would greatly improve their pilot staffing numbers. The problem is this would require major changes from the bottom to the top. The biggest of which is seniority for schedule bidding as well as the schedule in general. Out and back ...

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Re: Air France 447: 13 years on

Skygod attitude maybe became a bit milder, but is still doing very well. In fact "not too much to ask" is exactly that type of thing. Especially if we're talking about really tiny number of accidents occurring today. That is especially bad approach as it is not actionable. Better training...

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Re: What Equipment Does BA Operate DEN-LHR?

http://www.flightradar24.com

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Re: Landing Gear Deployed at Cruise

seat1a, with regard to your question: What would happen to say an A330 if the landing gear were deployed at cruise? Despite your example of an A330 and the answer above concerning automated features that would prevent such an occurrence, I perceive your question as "What would happen if the lan...

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Re: Name for (“W”?) routings?

I think of a round robin as more something like ORD-OGG-KOA-OGG. BoeingGuy, at my company, what you described above: ORD-OGG-KOA-OGG is referred to as a "tag on." A round robin normally terminates at the origin, for example ORD-LAX-SFO-ORD. A flight from origin to destination and back, i....

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Re: 738 broken drain mast heater

is it possible after such a ground delay that the availability of an optimum air route/altitude disappeared and the flight had to be assigned to whatever was available? Of course that is a possibility, but my guess is that was not the case in this situation, given the routing (DEN-SFO), late night,...

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Re: Accuracy of enroute times months from flight

My operator also uses historical winds and flight times. However, rather than using "averaged" data, the network planning department uses calculations that provide 75 - 80 percent "worst case" scenarios. This ensures a higher probability that flights will arrive on-time or early,...

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Re: Did TWA operate charter flights or American domestic flights beyond STL-JFK?

convair880mfan, the city pairs mentioned above, as well as: New York (JFK) - SFO and Washington, D.C. (IAD) - SFO whether it ever did charter flights either with its 747 or other types TWA participated in DoD contract airlift and also provided charter aircraft to all-inclusive tour operators. e38

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Re: ROVE Callsign

IAHObserver wrote:
It's not unusual to hear the ROVE callsign being used at the same time as KARL and SHRUB call signs with airborne aircraft, not sure why.

IAHObserver, because in some cases, the callsign is associated with the type of training mission being conducted.

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Re: Augmented crew - logging flight hours

Would all 3 get the full 12h flight time credited to their logbook? Hendric, as mentioned above, in general the answer is "yes," but the category in which the time is logged may vary among the pilots. To begin, I think there is agreement among pilots and regulating authorities that all th...

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