I usually use "OVER" on initial call to a ground station that is not typically very active on a frequency, or that multiples numerous frequencies and landlines, such as a <acronym title="Kinloss (FSS / EGQK), United Kingdom">FSS</acronym>: "Denver Radio, N12345, receiving 122.35, OVER" The Flight Se...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/B727LVR" class="quote" target="_blank">B727LVR</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Why is it they only happen in flight?</i></f...
Jump to postPollution is a byproduct of combustion. Even though city buses spew out thick black smoke, they reduce overall pollution emissions by taking cars off the road (in theory). Airliners can play a similar role. For example, the 777 was touted as being the most specific fuel efficient conveyance in exist...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/etherealsky" class="quote" target="_blank">etherealsky</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> This is...
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Jump to postAnd here I thought it was just the reading light in the SSU (Stowaway Service Unit)
Jump to postA lot of Part 91 pilots (like myself), and MSFS junkies who never really have to use the rudder, don't realize something important about induced roll. It was correctly stated that by commanding yaw through the use of rudder deflection alone the wings experience asymmetric drag, corresponding asymmet...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vikkyvik" class="quote" target="_blank">vikkyvik</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Yes, I think so...
Jump to postThe wind will generally affect planes in the same vicinity the same way, so ATC gets pretty good at issuing headings that make the plane end up where they want it. As with many tasks, approach controllers tend to have the most fun with it, because they have planes descending, slowing, and turning fr...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Starlionblue" class="quote" target="_blank">Starlionblue</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>only for the pax</i></font></td>...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Glom" class="quote" target="_blank">Glom</a> (<a href="#64" class="quote">Reply 64</a>):<br/><i>How?</i></font></td></tr></table> I consider the...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>no big deal</i></font></td></tr></table> I've talk...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Glom" class="quote" target="_blank">Glom</a> (<a href="#49" class="quote">Reply 49</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Every assertion in yo...
Jump to postTwo serious questions about LUAW: One, what is a pilot supposed to read back? "Lining up and waiting?" How about just "Roger?" That seems detrimental without at a minimum reading back the runway assignment. I might just feel frisky enough to read back "position and hold," we'll see. Certainly at my ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HAWK21M" class="quote" target="_blank">HAWK21M</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Well MEL, "out ...
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Jump to postThe drag produced by the rolling friction of the wheels against the ground and the dynamic friction of the wheel bearings doesn't affect the lift produced by the wings. Liftoff speed is a function of the air flowing over the wings. Drag from all sources affects the amount of thrust required to accel...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/xero9" class="quote" target="_blank">xero9</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>I might be flying around for over an hour with...
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Jump to postCFR Part 67 covers the medical standards for pilots. There are three categories of medical certificate. Airline transport pilots need a Class 1 which has to be renewed every 6 months. Other commercial pilots that don't fly for regular service airlines need a Class 2, and private pilots need a Class ...
Jump to postSince airliners cruise at such a high altitude, and VHF radios are line-of-sight, they can pick up ELTs over a huge area. Unfortunately, this doesn't do much to help ATC narrow down the specific location. When I was training for my PPL, I was on a solo cross-country flight and receiving flight follo...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DiamondFlyer" class="quote" target="_blank">DiamondFlyer</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>I've found in certain light sing...
Jump to postHere's a fun challenge: anyone who has gotten pretty good at MSFS, try the "easter egg" flight sim in Google Earth. When I first learned MSFS, I didn't have a joystick and had to use the numeric keypad. That helped a lot for controlling the flight path, but finding the airport was no easier. I guess...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jetlagged" class="quote" target="_blank">jetlagged</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>MSFS laws of physics are reasonable en...
Jump to postI've owned every version of MSFS since 1987, I have a PPL, am checked out in every one of my club's single engine models from Cessna, Piper, and Diamond, and before 9/11 had accumulated about 12 hours in the UA Level D sims at Stapleton. I've also flown several stationary simulators, including AATDs...
Jump to postI see them more often at airports serving more GA. The major carriers don't tend to change which airports they operate into as quickly or as often, making follow me cars less necessary.
Jump to postThe place we obviously notice it as passengers is the airlines' refusal to run the APU on the ground. I don't know what the fuel consumption of an APU is, and I don't really care. To me, it's part of the cost of doing business. I boarded a DL 738 at 9:45 last night in MSP, and it had been a hot, hum...
Jump to postPressurized air enters the cabin at a very rapid volumetric flow rate. The outflow valve, when operated automatically, regulates how much air exits the cabin so the pressure stays constant. There is a cabin altitude display in the cockpit and the target cabin altitude for cruise (usually 8,000ft) is...
Jump to postWhile it probably did benefit pax more than crew, I think it was a temporary benefit to the consumer, one which is nearing its end. Think baggage fees, "economy minus" seating, and the like. Now, we're stuck with that status quo, and cheap fares are vaporizing, too. Not to mention that all the bankr...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PGNCS" class="quote" target="_blank">PGNCS</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>At my rather large carrier go arounds / missed a...
Jump to postI see that no one has commented yet. Let me start by apologizing for I don't know the answer to your question about how common it is. What I can offer is that such things are not usually (officially or publicly) tracked. It's a safety concern, since if "number of missed approaches" was used as a mea...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DashTrash" class="quote" target="_blank">DashTrash</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>That's an aux hydraulic pump.</i></font>...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/xero9" class="quote" target="_blank">xero9</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>I know there's a +/- 100' tolerance as fa...
Jump to postRecall that the encoding altimeter that is sending your altitude to ATC is always set to 29.92" and only reports in 100-foot increments. However, the controllers know what the local altimeter setting is (in no small part because they are providing it to pilots), so they can pretty quickly figure out...
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Jump to postA lot of them exist already. http://www.earinc.com/p2-headsets-aviation.php
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/JER757" class="quote" target="_blank">JER757</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>They are updated every 30mins at 20 and 50mi...
Jump to postSIGMET stands for Significant Meteorological (information) and there can be several types, including convective (for thunderstorm activity) and non-convective (for icing, turbulence, or IMC conditions due to visibility). SIGMETs apply to conditions that affect the safety of all aircraft. AIRMETs are...
Jump to postATIS, Automated Terminal Information System. Go to <a href="http://www.airnav.com" target="_blank">www.airnav.com</a> or any site like it, search for your favorite airport, and call the ATIS telephone number. Pilots listen to this on the radio before they depart or arrive at a particular airport. It...
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Jump to postI can't help it, this is too cool not to share. I have no idea what they cost, but if money wasn't a concern (hahaha), I would get this:
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<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pihero" class="quote" target="_blank">Pihero</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>Visual cues are quite important</i></font></...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/timz" class="quote" target="_blank">timz</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Yes, absolutely. It's...
Jump to postLots of mountain airports in Colorado (and elsewhere). Very few served by 121 carriers, some by 135, like ASE that was mentioned. GWS is another fun one. 5916 MSL and 3305x50ft runway at the back of a canyon. But for 121 ops, I can think of 2 at DEN. To land on 8, you would cross over 16L/34R and 16...
Jump to postThe exhaust noise from the engines, much like the wake vortices from the wingtips, propagates in a somewhat conical shape from the rear of each engine. Wind can affect the speed and direction that it propagates, too, and the winds at the surface are almost always different from winds at cruise and e...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RobertS975" class="quote" target="_blank">RobertS975</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>it a north-south route</i></font></td>...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mrocktor" class="quote" target="_blank">mrocktor</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Of course in this case a post V1 RTO is th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tdscanuck" class="quote" target="_blank">tdscanuck</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I've found the opposite...I'd much rathe...
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