While we’re on Australian DC-9s I can’t verify this but one website claims in 1965 the first 3 firm and 3 options for TAA (and presumably Ansett too) were for the -20 model which only SAS would end up buying. These orders were changed to the -30 model three weeks later. Now I know the -30 was the s...
Jump to postAll the Delta 737s with WiFi have satellite based systems now. The old ground based system antennas on the fuselage sides have been removed. Some planes are more noticeable but all the planes that had it removed have patches on the fuselage where the antennas used to be.
Jump to postLooking at photos of Southwest and other airlines, it seems that the very early production MAX planes had markings very similar to the 737NG (very angular) but starting in 2018 the slightly larger areas with rounded lines around the back of the top of the pylon seem to become the norm. Boeing probab...
Jump to postMy money would be on either PSA or AirCal. Depending on when it was filmed, by 1983 the only other US based MD-80 operators were AirCal, American, Frontier, Hawaiian, Jet America, Muse Air, New York Air, PSA, Republic, and TWA. Frontier, Hawaiian, Jet America, Muse Air, and New York Air can all be e...
Jump to postThe article you linked to is from 2007. Delta's current boarding process by product/branding started in 2018, though it's been revised a little since the article below came out announcing the changes. https://news.delta.com/boarding-simplified-delta-extends-branded-fares-boarding-order-launches-colo...
Jump to postSometime between April 1 and June 1, 2001. The April 1 time table I have shows no CRJ-700 flights. The June 1 timetable shows a small number of CRJ-700 flights operated by ASA, enough for 2, maybe 3 aircraft at the most.
Jump to postAs far as I can tell there was only one and it was just a very brief time between being painted in Heart colors and getting the scimitar installed but N8329B did.
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9089025
https://flic.kr/p/N7mJfV
A CRJ-200 with a deferred APU requires a packs off takeoff and landing if engine or wing anti-ice is required.
Jump to postThey couldn’t have gone and sat on the ground at OAK until the minimums improved? The proceeded to SMF? They could have, in fact the original planned alternate was SJC. BUT, doing so would have delayed the rest of the day's flying for the plane and potentially caused crew issues later. MO11 hit the...
Jump to postWeather diversion. As stated above, sometimes it's better for passengers and the operation to return to the point of origin instead of diverting to another city. KSMF 091706Z 32006KT 1/4SM R17R/2200FT FG OVC002 04/03 A3033 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 1/4 T00390033 $ KSMF 091653Z 31006KT 1/8SM R17R/1400FT FG OVC...
Jump to postNever flown a Dash 8 but there's at least one MEL on the CRJ that requires the gear to hang out for 15 minutes after takeoff. Makes one heck of a noise but other than extra fuel burn is no issue. Off the top of my head I wanna say it's for a deferred main landing gear bay overheat sensor.
Jump to postAt least to start in 2017, looks like it was a funky schedule out of Santa Rosa, MSP-STS on Thursday, STS-MSP on Sunday. Also, the MSP service was advertised on the 737-800 to start, though I could see the 700 filling in. Not sure what the plane did in between those flights as the initial press rele...
Jump to postIt was announced either in the 3Q19 or 4Q19 shareholder report that plans were made to keep CRJ-200s in service at OO until 2028 and that there was an upgrade program (no real details were announced) to spend a few hundred thousand per plane with cabin and airframe upgrades. I would assume LEDs were...
Jump to postFlyingElvii wrote:SGU is Skywest Headquarters. Is it also a CRJ maint base, if I recall?
It’s too cumbersome and difficult to publish updates to repaints on Avsim, Flightsim, and the other sites. I post some stuff there but after 20+ years of doing repaints for various flight sims it’s easier to keep it on my own site where I can update things faster if needed.
Jump to postWhen I painted the Frontier tails for the Majestic Q400, I had to do some photoshop touch ups and interpolation to most of them because the nature of the Q400 tail there's a natural shadow over them because of the t-tail. One thing that helped me was the fact that many of the images had been recycle...
Jump to postUmmm, the JOVEM is a DFW arrival. Do you mean the JANNY arrival into BUR? Anecdotally, and it's only been from PHX, but I've only even flown the THRNE into BUR. I always liked it better than the HLYWD arrival into LAX because no speed restrictions and we were usually the only one on it so 300+ kts i...
Jump to postJust got that info from a regional driver: A CR7 burns only about 3400 pounds per hour, compared to 3000pph for the CR2. Pulled up a pair of releases for today, one for a 200, one for a 700, on the same route. For a 42 minute flight on the same planned routing, the 700 burn was 2968 and the 200 bur...
Jump to postFor both, how far in advance are your schedules? 20th of the month prior, sometimes a day or two before but it's not required to be out before then. Our schedule becomes changable, meaning we can try to drop trips or trade trips with other pilots on the 24th of the month prior. To compound matters,...
Jump to postHere’s a gate check tag with Sioux City as the final destination... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Em8AAOSwQPlV9cXi/s-l300.jpg (Sorry, I don’t know how to post photos) The flight on that tag ORD-SUX was operated by Ozark, OZ 989. It's an interline trip, the first leg is UA 345 from where ever to ORD.
Jump to postIn the continental US most small communities served by regional airlines are also connected to the interstate highway system (or are relatively close to it) and the vast majority of cargo to these towns comes by truck. The only cargo sent on the regional airlines tends to be small, relatively light ...
Jump to postNot sure if it’s been noted but as of 8am on Aug 6 there’s a Mitsubishi Regional Jet on the ramp at Gateway.
Jump to postActually other way around; the CR2 was never a problem (other than cabin temp). BBD just never did the performance for the 7/9 past ISA+30. Can’t speak for Mesa but all three CRJ variants at SkyWest are limited to ISA+35. The exception now is the CRJ-700s operated as American Eagle are now ISA+40 l...
Jump to postAs long as the aircraft has the charts/FMC database/dispatch database up to 123 degrees (from another poster), then airport elevation would only affect the max takeoff weight. It doesn't affect the max temperature that the aircraft is certified to takeoff . Of course with the ludicrous example of p...
Jump to postBobbyPSP wrote:I'm surprised the CRJ 200 isnt limited to a lower max temperature due to PHX elevation. We launched them from PSP around 120 to 121 , however it's only at about 450FT
American paid to get the performance data for SkyWest and Mesa to be able to operate the CRJ-700s and CRJ-900s up to ISA+40. Basically it's gotta get over 127F/53C to temp out now. I think my shoes will melt into the pavement on the ramp doing a walk around long before we temp out now. The CRJ-200s ...
Jump to postGiven the OO "ad" for PRC shows UA, I'd assume LAX and/or DEN have already been confirmed but not announced. Just curious but what "ad" are you referring to? I won't complain if it does end up in the UA system though, the fewer 200 routes crewed from PHX the better. https://care...
Jump to postalasizon wrote:Given the OO "ad" for PRC shows UA, I'd assume LAX and/or DEN have already been confirmed but not announced.
Anybody heard any word on who will be the next EAS carrier at PRC I wonder how good the performance is for a CRJ2 out of there. Terrain and climb gradients off 21 might pose a limiting issue for single engine performance (haven’t looked at it in years so not sure). But considering likely destinatio...
Jump to postPoor performance....Subjective cabin......Me thinks you might have some hometown manufacturer bias going here. To be fair, the CRJ-900 and the E175 essentially have the same engine, but the CRJ-900 will by nature of lower weights for similar payload have better takeoff performance given the relativ...
Jump to postThe direction signs are usually just semi-transparent covers over the lights themselves. As the lights change from incandescent to other forms (LED, etc) the covers stay the same.
Jump to postFortunately PHX is always VFR and a million, so they can clear the next aircraft for takeoff when the preceding is 6,000ft down and rotating (assuming they're on alternating SIDs), so they cleaned up the line pretty quickly just like they do on normal days. Sadly they all still go out to the same f...
Jump to postWhat a friggin' mess. I can't think of any other major airports that are capable of simultaneous arrivals and departures that simply don't have them because reasons. And not even good reasons. It's quite frustrating being number 15 in line to takeoff and spending more time taxiing down E than it ta...
Jump to postYeah, everything is still tied to a single fix not far from the runway, even the ones that got taken away, well, not assigned anymore until they get revised anyways. Looks like the May 24 Jepp revision has even more changes but going east still puts pretty much everyone over the same fix whether the...
Jump to postYes, it does. Ex TWA planes end in that. I've seen old TWA MD-80's operating for American with TW at the end of their tail number. Mostly. When they couldn't get the NxxxTW registrations they wanted, TWA just used the fleet number and a letter. There's a large chunk of MD-80s that are just 9000 ser...
Jump to postFor the AA and DL jets they kept the original TW tail numbers, but I believe the 717s that went to Air Tran were the-registered for whatever reason. Please correct me if I’m wrong. The ex-TWA 717s at Delta are fleet numbers 9563 thru 9586 and the registrations are: N936AT, N935AT, N934AT, N933AT, N...
Jump to postThese were DL’s first ETOPS 757’s. None of the existing DL fleet were ETOPS certified so the TWA birds were acquired for TATL expansion. The four ex-ATA 757s were ETOPS certified prior to the acquisition of the ex-TWA birds, but they were limited to west coast to Hawaii routes with occasional foray...
Jump to postJust a minor point....there is no final approach point....it does not exist. There is the published G/S intercept altitude but no reference to the FAF or Final approach point. According to the definitions section of the Instrument Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-15B): " Final approach fix (FAF). T...
Jump to postHow have the delays been with the north runway out of commission? Got a 1hr 44min delay coming in from Durango a few days ago on my last leg of a 4 day trip. That wasn't much of an issue as it was expected. Being slowed to 170kts over Payson, then given delay vectors back to the north, then being f...
Jump to postI guess DL has reconfigured all 82 CRJ700 by now into the 69-seat layout, where an additional four Y seats were added by pushing the aft lavatory into the aft cargo hold. Does the reduced aft cargo hold still have room for all baggage on all flights or do they have to actively keep the CR7 away fro...
Jump to postI did a test booking LAX-CUN in mid January and it showed as Delta One. What did it show at time of booking? Or what does it show when you view your reservation online? You may have to call Delta reservations to get a definitive answer for your specific flights.
Jump to postIt depends on if the flight is marketed as Delta One or just First Class/Business class. According to Delta's Website: "Delta One or SkyTeam Premium Cabin Passenger Customers traveling in Delta One on an international Delta flight or a domestic Delta flight connecting to/from a same-day interna...
Jump to postIn all honesty, from experience if an airport was to choose not to clear all taxiways it would be the ones in the middle of the runway that they left snow covered and would clear the ones at both ends. That being said, if I were to find myself in the OP's scenario, I would simply turn around on the ...
Jump to postI notice that a few of the EMJ flights/routes from SAN switch back and forth from OO to QX. I don't know if it's as simple as wanting the F/C cabin sometimes, and not others... Do the Horizon planes not have a First Class cabin? I know the SkyWest planes do, and there were rumors of Alaska wanting ...
Jump to postGot it, thanks. Any specific reason they didn't switch the 700? In addition to what was mentioned above, it's not just different winglets. There were other changes made to the wing to increase performance along with the new winglets which, given the lower weights, probably weren't needed on the 700.
Jump to postSo let me get this straight: the 700 and 900 both started out with the steep winglets, then both went to the more canted ones in 2005ish? No, the 700s never switched and all have the same winglets. Early 900s shared the same winglet as the 700. Starting in 2005 Bombardier started building 900s with...
Jump to postDo you know of any aircraft that are not part of the NextGen package that received the newer winglets? I've never seen any. The lengthened winglets and other changes first appeared in 2005, the NextGen didn't show up until 2007. Starting around L/N 15036 (the first 705) and running until L/N 15129 ...
Jump to postlol what?? Yuma is nearly at sea level and you can always ask for 3/21.. I have operated from both of these airports. The GPS into 3L at NYL is a fun tour of the border but FLG is sketchier on every day of the year. As long as you aim for the numbers and don't float, 17/35 at Yuma really isn't much...
Jump to postAnd? The hotter city on the LAX-FLG route is Los Angeles. FLG may indeed present some challenges being 7000 feet long and 7000 feet altitude. Maybe certain aircraft would have trouble there. A CR7 should be fine, right? The runway at FLG always makes me a bit nervous. Even on a cool, dry day you ar...
Jump to postThere are surprisingly few ILS runways in Arizona (or maybe it's unsurprising given the weather), and since PHX is effectively unusable by student pilots shooting practice ILS approaches because it's a major airport, it makes the IWA ILS very popular. I believe there's an airborne ILS down near Sta...
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