Re: Polar Route Limitations

Noshow wrote:

Could it be possible that polar survival equipment and special crew qualification are required for extremely northerly routes?

Re: 747 180 degree turn on runway after backtrack

we used to do this in the MD-11 and because the nose wheel is 20' behind the pilots we would actually be over the grass before making the turn around. We would turn from centerline 45 deg

Re: Sand Bag Use

In the MD-11 if we were ferrying they put concrete pallets in the cargo section

Re: A question about crew bases

Just saying, if those pilots who work for a US major dug into their contracts, then there is probably a section on basing pilots outside of the contiguous US. I know at NW the agreement involved a living allowance premium for that exception and was applied to bases in ANC, HNL and GUM. Of course th...

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

I was always told from my flight Safety classes many many years a go the the US. uses 18,000' because it's half the atmosphere=500mb. When I went to the airlines I don't remember them saying much except the separate levels in Europe and other places. The oddest was Almaty, KZ where you descended on...

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

I was told my a PP buddy in UK that they do QFE if they stay local

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

I was always told from my flight Safety classes many many years a go the the US. uses 18,000' because it's half the atmosphere=500mb. When I went to the airlines I don't remember them saying much except the separate levels in Europe and other places. The oddest was Almaty, KZ where you descended on ...

Re: International Flights' Listed Alternate Airport Questions

An amusing story, I was flying Bangalore to Mumbai. The weather in Mumbai was very bad with torrential rain and low vis. We made two approaches and even with the HUD saw nothing. We announced our intent to go to our alt. which was Hyderabad and headed that way. When we landed the first thing ground ...

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

It didn't as long as I had it. It was late 40s I best I remember. It was stock, with original a/s ind. I sold it to another co. pilot that took it to ANC and put a bigger engine and balloon tires on it and made it a bush plane. Not sure if he put an electrical system in, somehow I doubt it.

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

It didn't as long as I had it. It was late 40s I best I remember. It was stock, with original a/s ind. I sold it to another co. pilot that took it to ANC and put a bigger engine and balloon tires on it and made it a bush plane. Not sure if he put an electrical system in, somehow I doubt it.

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

Asa side note the C-150s always had radios but after that most airplanes came out of the factory with no radios. That was left up to the buyer. We would often have a portable VHF radio with us.

Re: Pulling jetways back from RON aircraft.

Never thought about it but would say both

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

Woodreau wrote:

CosmicCruiser wrote:

A J-3 with a radio? Mine didn't even have a battery! LOL

That would be time for Light gun. Lol

all I’d remember is green good red bad.

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

A J-3 with a radio? Mine didn't even have a battery! LOL

Re: Which under rated aircraft did you really enjoy flying

I got my private license at Lawton in '68 when I won the powered flight encampment as a cadet in the CAP. Seems the old fellow who gave me my checkride was a Mr. Grigsby. He had something like a 4 or 5 digit license number!! There were about 20 of us from squadrons all over the country. We were take...

Re: Landing at New Delhi airport

Even with all the haze and smoke I don't remember doing a CATIII landing. I do remember doing CATII landings but the HUD with EFVS made a big difference. I remember looking around the HUD to see what the F/O saw and it was totally brown. Through the HUD I saw a road, the app. lights and the runway.

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

They're not uncommon. So common, in fact, that the A350 has auto-TCAS as standard and the A330 as an option. The A350 even has auto-TCAS during an automated emergency descent. As for how many events a year, I don't really know. I've seen TAs but not an RA yet. One more reason to watch your climb/de...

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

Well,I certainly don't want to get in an argument. It's not worth it. I won't print what I remember as fact because it has been a while but the major change after Narita was that you'll never try to salvage a hard landing. The call was go around and it didn't matter if you were at mins or bouncing o...

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

I don't remember the co. making a special designation about it. A hard landing you go around. Pitch +7deg max pwr and hold it. This came about after Narita. I think the proper call out was go around and not rejected landing. I thought Boeing revised their procedures after the EK accident in DXB. I ...

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

That's standard procedure nowadays to Go Around after a hard landing and not try to salvage the landing. Prudent decision. Isnt it called a rejected landing not a go around ? I don't remember the co. making a special designation about it. A hard landing you go around. Pitch +7deg max pwr and hold i...

Re: Question on flying GA into El Paso, TX

Correct
. I got to do it a couple of times. Just saying you're not staying in the country's boundaries when you t/o & land. wasn't a biggy.

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

That's standard procedure nowadays to Go Around after a hard landing and not try to salvage the landing. Prudent decision.

Re: Question on flying GA into El Paso, TX

checkout flying out of Luxembourg

Re: touring behind the scenes

At least where I was everything changed after 9/11. No tours except VIP arranged tours and as I was told here no longer are ARTCC nor towers tours available. If that's changed I don't know it.

Re: Augmented crew - logging flight hours

3&3 is 3 t/o & 3 ldg every 90 days

Re: FDX EVS and Adoption Across Airlines

The first EVS appeared on the fedex fleet around 2011/2012, on a MD11 if I remember well. Then suddenly, the whole fleet started to be retrofitted, except Airbuses. I was kind of shocked as it happened at a time when we, on the ramp, were asking for proper gloves and more ramp snakes for bulk ops, ...

Re: Augmented crew - logging flight hours

There were guys that would bid RFO to make it easy then complain to the capt they were coming up on their 3 & 3. Then there was the issue of "hey man you knew this so why did you bid RFO? Ugly.

Re: Augmented crew - logging flight hours

I would say you would log the hours as a crewmember but probably won't get credit for a landing.

Re: airplane gliding

90deg bank, you're now aerobatic.

Re: music/movie in cockpit on (ultra) long haul?

We never went as far as robes and PJs. Sweat pants and a sweat shirt was typical.

Re: Understanding Emergency Descent Altitudes

I guess what I'm not understanding is the time tables to certain altitudes. From, at least what we were taught, 51 min to 10,000'? That's hardly an emerg. descent. For us it was idle pwr, full speedbrakes and red line. It better not take 51 min or you will bust the chk ride. So what emerg. descent ...

Re: Understanding Emergency Descent Altitudes

I guess what I'm not understanding is the time tables to certain altitudes. From, at least what we were taught, 51 min to 10,000'? That's hardly an emerg. descent. For us it was idle pwr, full speedbrakes and red line. It better not take 51 min or you will bust the chk ride. So what emerg. descent a...

Re: Favorite Song about aviation?

5 Miles Out.....Mike Oldfield....There's a Be-18 (or Lockheed 10) on the cover High Flying Bird.....Zephyr Traveling Band.....Creedence Clearwater Revival...."737 coming out of the sky, take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride Teterboro Tower.......Arthur Godfrey.....1950s. He was a pilot as ...

Re: DHL 757 off runway at SJU

Dumb question - but to cargo aircraft have escape slides on the L1 door, or to they just use a rope for the crew to evacuate? Don't know the answer to that, but they were actually taken off the aircraft by firefighters using ladders. Just saw a video a few minutes ago of them coming out.[/quote Car...

Re: Altitude of the static 6g maneuver?

.... Probably part of the reason a lot of flights go around the Himalayas. Also explains better something I never quite understood - why flying "The Hump" to China was so dangerous in WW2. Max cruising level for a laden WW2 planes was in the mid-20's; if you hit a strong up/down draft off...

Re: music/movie in cockpit on (ultra) long haul?

Obviously there's extremes on both sides. I flew with a Capt. on the 727 many years ago who wouldn't turn on the thunderstorm lights in cruise and forbid any reading. every leg in the middle of the night was horrible. Then on the other end, I came up front from my rest period, MD-11, to find the F/O...

Re: SOP pilot call-out differences?

Starlionblue wrote:

CosmicCruiser wrote:

Not only is it company specific but where I was they changed on a regular basis.

Yep. This always adds some spice to sim and line checks.

Re: SOP pilot call-out differences?

Not only is it company specific but where I was they changed on a regular basis.

Re: A320 pushes nose down in flare mode

If I remember correctly, and anyone feel free to correct me, the MD-11 had something similar. The software update was done before I went to the jet but it had to do with LSAS trimming nose down at a given point in the flare to prevent tail strikes. guys told me something about the nose continuing up...

Re: Airline accident investigations SO 242, etc.

As for choosing a field I would have to say it's as always easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, as we say. They had just had a horrible experience that left them with cracked windshields and a double engine failure. Time did not slowdown and I must admit if I had seen the terrain as I came out o...

Re: Layovers changed from pre covid

From where I was, guys tell me that there are not many long layovers anymore and trips are constantly revised.

Re: Question about quotation on MD-11 landing speeds.

It was fun to fly.

Re: Question about quotation on MD-11 landing speeds.

Good catch. My mind just saw kts.

Re: Question about quotation on MD-11 landing speeds.

It's been a while since I was in either of the jets but I don't remember the MD-11 being 20-30kts faster than the DC-10 at the same wgt. . Remember that the -11 had higher landing weights so that accounts for some increase. Other than that what someone posted about the smaller horizontal stab is tru...

Re: Was [Is] it common to use only idle reverse thrust during landing runs in the DC-10 and L-1011 Tristar?

We used reverse in the DC-10 always unless there were restrictions

Re: FAA Draft AC on Flight Path Management

3.2.2.1 An air carrier’s line operations policy should permit and encourage MFO and should incorporate the following: 1. Encouragement to manually fly the aircraft when conditions permit, including, at least periodically, the entire departure and arrival phases and potentially the entire flight, if...

Re: What is the range of landing speeds for the MD-11?

The Vapp at max ldg wgt was 168kts. Got to see it a few times. Better have your ldg data correct.

Re: Tu-204 requiring no anti-icing system

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

CosmicCruiser wrote:

The Saberliner didn't have wing anti ice initially but you could get ice.

I only flew the Sabre 65 with the wing that heard ice was in the area would stall. We turned on the WAI lots after the two crashes.

Re: Tu-204 requiring no anti-icing system

The Saberliner didn't have wing anti ice initially but you could get ice.

Re: RTO for impending fire

Starlionblue wrote:

As an aside, would you really be looking at the fuel flow 10 knots before V1?