Re: LH will look at A321XLR, but it's no game-changer: CEO

LH needs cargo capacity as well. This might be a problem with the XLR. LH is a full service carrier, not only for the passengers but also for cargo. Lots of those destinations in Africa and the ME would be in XLR range. But those destinations are cargo heavy flights als well. Therefore cargo might b...

Re: Should Airports Stop Building for 380 sized Aircraft?

Airports are constantly modified. New regulations, new aircraft and whatsoever requires a modernization of airport infrastructure all the time. The demise of category D (ICAO Aerodrome Reference Code) / ADG IV (FAA Aircraft Design Group) aircraft (B757, B767 mostly) might trigger another redesign ph...

Re: Should Airports Stop Building for 380 sized Aircraft?

Again, lots of inaccuracies regarding the A380 in this thread :banghead: Airports did not start widening stuff for the A380. The 773 or the A346 also needed taxiway adjustments. The inner side of taxiway curves needed fillets in order to enable use of sharp turns. The distance between the NLG (Nose ...

Re: 787 vs A350 range

zeke wrote:

Captain does not have his hand on the side stick during the final approach

Re: Airbus A/C DWG files converted into KML

Thank you atomicstar.

I have tried that site. It did not work. But maybe it was me who failed to use it correctly. Unfortunatly I have used all my free conversions yesterday.

Airbus A/C DWG files converted into KML

Hi all, I would like to use KML files of airbus aircraft in google earth. Airbus offers download of their A/C drawings in a .dwg file: https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/support-services/airport-operations-and-technical-data/autocad-3-view-aircraft-drawings.html As I do not have AutoCAD I cannot conver...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Here is my trip report flying to and from the new IST airport: The arrival was fast. We where cleared for a STAR first, but shortly after beginning our descent we received a direct towards a base waypoint. So no weird turns. Also no delay or long final. We did an ILS 34L (34R was not used at all thi...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Good comparison. I suppose they will change operations similar to Gatwick once more runways have been constructed. After preparing my flight towards IST tomorrow, I have discovered some interesting procedures about the runway usage. First, there are two pairs of parallel runways west of the termina...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

One would hope that the fact that the captain's AoA display had gone all blue while the FO's was still ~40% brown would also be a clue. The display with the blue and brown is called attitude indicator (aka artificial horizon). It displays pitch and bank. However, this is not an AoA indicator! https...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

I suppose there was an intensive simulator training of ATC of all possible setups for arrivals and departures incl change of RWY's in use as well as emergency situations /closure of RWY due to the accident, holding procedures due to weather etc./. This in conjunction with traffic patterns to SAW, a...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Looking at the IGA departures only 6 TK flights between 9-11am this morning. Flightradar24 suggest TK is operating at 60-70% capacity. Flights departing, landing taking the long way around, making strange turns even though there is no apparent heavy traffic in the air. Do not forget that the new ai...

Re: LH orders 20 B789 and 20 additional A350; Will sell 6 A380s back to Airbus

From LH's comments it looks like all their A346 will be replaced by A359. So I don't think they feel first class is required on those routes anymore. Replacing A346 with A359 does not mean they will be used on the same routes. They might rotate aircraft as well. It is way to simple to say that A359...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

What I fear is that there is unreliable airspeed from the take off roll, and they were shocked to see stick shaker on from the take off roll, and decided to shallow out the climb to "get out of it"... only to not see it not disappear.... with the increasing speed and confusion with the st...

Re: LH orders 20 B789 and 20 additional A350; Will sell 6 A380s back to Airbus

I guess that all the 4 engined aircraft will leave LH before the first D-Check.

2022 fits for the A380.

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

... Previous generation large jets (not fly-by-wire) have cables from the control columns to a bellcrank that directs a PCU to deflect the control surface as required through the control column movement. If the control column is moved but the associated PCU does NOT move (or vice versa), it may cau...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

AirlineCritic wrote:

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So, does this leave only spatial disorientation and confusion then as the initiating action? Can others see any other issue that would fit what we've been told?

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

Stall is AOA dependend. Not speed!

You can stall an aircraft at any speed.

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

casinterest wrote:

Do you have an updated one ?

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

As nobody answered before, I would like to repost some observations and questions. There is a lot of focus on the MCAS. Still, there are other questions not answered yet. Those questions came up after reading all the information in the news (and this thread). This information might not be reliable, ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

... We do not have the data from after this point to understand what happened till the crash minutes later and miles away. We need the FDR for that. https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-DJ688_backgr_16U_20190310130545.jpg The crash location on this map is not correct.

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

I am not familiar with design of the flight controls of the B767. Therefore I have some questions regarding the phrase "in response to column input". Does the B767 still have cables/wires between the control column and the hydraulic actuators? Would there be a possible column movement beca...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

the captain starts flying solo and becomes an instructor

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

There is still a lot of focus on the MCAS. Still, there are other questions not answered yet. These are my questions which I have after collection all the information in the news. Of course, the information might not be reliable, incomplete (as FR24 coverage is poor in that area) and even fake. But ...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

Very well done sir, I agree Thanks for adding the pictures. The hill to the east is 8772ft MSL. Otherwise they have been in an area with relatively flat terrain (less than 8000ft MSL). Only a few mountains up to 8772ft MSL are in that area southeast of the AD, with the exception of one 100072ft mou...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

To me it looks like the crash site is located here: 8°52'38.04"N 39°15'4.28"E This is approximatley 18NM to the southeast of the last FR24 data point. I have looked at different pictures and videos of the crash site. The Street pattern, the small canyon or ravine and the hill with trees in...

Re: First B777-9X of LH in PAE now

DeltaB717 wrote:

When LH received their first A380, they flew them on existing services to both LHR and CDG in place of the usual A320 Family. I don't see why that wouldn't be the case for the B779...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

... Ironically the Kalman filter was designed a half century ago to flight in space but is still not used to flight aircraft... The Kalman filter is used for position computation. It is used to combine the IRS with the GPS position. IRS position gives you a very accurate short term position. It als...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

One of them is to compute the domain of possible next inputs values given the actual values and state of the system (this is how stateful inspection firewall work for example). In a measuring system, input with impossible values can be filtered out of the redundancy set. In case of an aircraft, it'...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

BUSS is quite simple actually. It uses raw AoA from the vanes. There is no speed displayed, just an AoA range. Just keep it in the green. Combine with an appropriate thrust setting and you get expected performance. Excellent - my question is then - why do the pilots have to deactivate a load of pri...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

FDR has been read out. 1800 paramters from 19 flights.

Looks promising.

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

It looks to me like you're throwing irrelevant / inaccurate information around in an attempt to confuse the reader. Was this aircraft equipped with the optional AOA sensor? I doubt it. All of the static and pitot probes are suspect from the last flight. All modern aircraft have AOA Sensors. The dis...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

Because it could only record data from the static port / pitot system which is suspected of being the failure point in the previous flight. The FDR will record much more than that. AOA angles for example, all of the static and pitot probes, IRS data, GPS data, AP status, Autothrottle status, thrott...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

salttee wrote:

The ADS-B Data and the FDR data come from the same source and there is serious doubt about the validity of that source. The radar data is crucial.

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

The radar data will not help answering those questions. The data is way to inaccurate with a low sample rate. The radar data most certainly will provide accurate ground speeds The radar data will also be very likely to show if there was an attempt to turn before the descent. Over seven minutes of t...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

What I find even more frustrating is that the airport is sitting on its radar recordings of the flight (which they almost certainly have). Thus discussion goes on here and elsewhere hypothesizing what the speed of the aircraft was, whether or not it was hand flown, whether it was in the process of ...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

1) is anybody aware of any declaration/remark made by the pilot of the sunday (Bali-Jakarta) flight? I'm astonished that they've been talking about that crucial flight for a week without making public anything from the crew. Why do they need to be made public? 2) reading last hours report: SAR and ...

Re: RUMOR: LH considering order of up to 15 A380 Plus

Update regarding the new livery painting job: Info from another forum in Germany is that D-AIMD has left FRA today to CAN as LH 9861 for C-check and, likely, painting into new livery... This information is not quite correct. MD left yesterday (monday) and it departed MUC, not FRA. C-Check and Paint...

Re: A Hifly Airbus 380 landed on OSL today

The flight has had to get special clearance to operate from the airport as the runway isn't really wide enough . The engines on the Airbus 380 hangs outside the runway. The airport did extra checks of the runway before and after landing. The runways in OSL are wide enough for the A380. The outer en...

Re: Bizarre landing by this UA DC-10

trent772 wrote:

.... in the FDA world we now fly in, this would have probably resulted in a call from the chief pilot.
....

Re: An-148 crash near Moscow kills all 71 people on board

...The warning the pilots got (if translated from Russian) was "V instrument - COMPARE". How the heck is that supposed to help the pilots? Compare two indications and see that they are different? They know it already. ... When solving unreliable speed indications the first step is recogni...

Re: A380 wake turbulence sends Business jet into 10,000ft dive, causes engines to flameout

Wake turbulence at cruise altitude is quite special. I once experienced a sudden roll up to 30° right bank. The roll rate was impressive, almost instantly. The wake was produced by an A330. I was sitting in an A380. Conclusion: Even super aircraft get tossed around by wakes. I fly often in trails of...

A380 Boarding - Stairs And Luggage

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RE: A380 Load Alleviation Function

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RE: A380 Load Alleviation Function

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RE: Qatar A350 Charter Aborted Takeoff At JFK

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RE: Qatar A350 Charter Aborted Takeoff At JFK

Guys, <acronym title="Roswell - Industrial Air Center (ROW / KROW), USA - New Mexico">ROW</acronym>-<acronym title="Rota Island - Rota International (ROP / GRO / PGRO), Northern Mariana Islands">ROP</acronym> does NOT work on take off! During approach and landing the system will generate warnings fi...

RE: Heathrow ILS Question

More flexible approaches will not use ILS systems in the future. There is newer technology that enables different procedures with varying slopes and ground tracks. Systems like: GBAS, WAAS or simply put: Differential <acronym title="Baltra / Seymour (GPS / SEGS), Ecuador">GPS</acronym>. You can desi...

RE: B737NG And A320 Control Protections

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RE: A380 Etacs Camera Locations

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RE: B737NG And A320 Control Protections

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