I have a Standard Selections document for a 737NG from 2007. It's 300+ pages long. There's a lot of options... A good number of them are driven by different certification requirements, about 10 pages list just what is required for which certification (without actually describing the options). But th...
Jump to postBoth engines at ground idle might well be too much power for taxi, so you have to keep braking. I didn't think a turboprop made any thrust at disk. That's my point. By only having one prop at ground idle and one disced you get less total thrust than with two at ground idle. So the reason to feather...
Jump to postWell, my one ejection took about 12 seconds from onset of the accident to being caught in a tree. A mere 300 milliseconds from being too late to pull the handles. The seats work wonderfully even from being on the ground. Just not in anyway suitable for transport aircraft. GF More details, please!! ...
Jump to postI've never seen crew check in at a passenger check in counter, not in Europe anyway. I've done it at pretty much every European airport I've operated from, which is at least half a dozen. Typically we get to the passenger check-in desks, check our bags and receive the briefing document stack. Havin...
Jump to postThank you for your answer! Please do dig out some pictures if you want... I can print them and attach them to my suitcase? :) Once I actually had a sticker on my suitcase with SHOCON written on it, I assume it means Short Connection. It could have been at AMS. Once when going to the US I had a stic...
Jump to postI've never seen crew check in at a passenger check in counter, not in Europe anyway. Airlines would probably be able to arrange with the ground handling company an appropriate place to brief. I would not be surprised if Delta in PRG used some CSA premises. I do know that in my small home airport, so...
Jump to postStarlionblue has a very good point. If you can afford to take a month or so of at a time, it's cheaper in the end to do your PPL in the US. A friend calculated it some time ago, savings of ~25% after airfare and accomodation, and he wasn't even basing his price on the more expensive UK market. I sup...
Jump to postA300 - Air France, Air Inter A310 - Interflug? would be fun. A320 - Too much to consider. Wizzair old c/s is funky. Actual "most notable" prolly Air France again or Air Inter. A330 - everywhere... A340 - Not as much, but noone stands out. A380 - Emirates. Duh. B707 - Pan Am, TWA, Qantas B7...
Jump to postHowever, the small size of the Q400 and relative proximity to the actual reg # probably renders them useless in many cases. Here are some examples of aircraft with large registration titles right by the tail meaning a tail no. would serve no function: Those Porter Q400s actually have a ship number ...
Jump to postAs per the original issue... not sure why this isn't in Aviation Hobby... all the guys gave you (naturally) the correct explanation as per what happens in the real aircraft. The difference here is the PMDG simulation is very good, but the hardware is not the real hardware. The devs know this, and ha...
Jump to postIt's probably a better idea not to take up training if you can't afford to take a medical. It sounds like you plan to fly like 2 hours a month, which is not good for anyone. Focus on saving instead, and get into it when you have at least 30 hours worth in pocket. As for what LAPL is, it's basically ...
Jump to postIt would not need to be nonstop to the UK. Could always refuel along the way. Is there even any suitable airport enroute before you reach Europe? I'm not sure, not unless you make a detour to the Gulf. What I don't understand is why some people think the continent of Africa is a black hole from SA ...
Jump to postVSMUT wrote:Interesting how it lists the Ford Mondeo as a rebadged Ford Fusion. The Mondeo has been around since the 90s in Europe, but much later in the US.
The FMCs were first installed as standard with the 757/767 and 747-400 slowly after. I think MD-80s could have them from factory as well, but not yet standard. There are many ways to supplement radio-based navigation in older planes. INS were usually only used for overseas aviation in widebodies. Th...
Jump to postOn a more positive note BA with 12 A380s, now operating over four years, appear to have been very reliable and seem to have few such incidents resulting in protracted delays. . I suppose they would. Funnily enough, when I was leaving JNB a couple of years ago on a different A380, the BA flight for ...
Jump to postVSMUT wrote:It depends entirely on the airline and position. Especially in Europe you will find some cargo operators with dirt low wages for FOs, even on 737s and A300s.
AirKevin wrote:CDL would be for stuff like this:
Simulators are not like MSFS - they don't have all the airports in the world, There will be a few detailed airports, and everything else is generic if modeled at all. A lot of the popular "flight sim" airports like Innsbruk or Aspen, wouldn't be modeled in a simulator unless an operator h...
Jump to postgotthrust wrote:I’m not sure, but maybe the Catain Dave you guys are looking for is on Twitter and updates quite regularly as Captain Dave (@DaveWallsworth) and is an A380 Captain for BA
A 3-engine take off from hot & high JNB, even for a ferry flight but with c.12 hrs fuel on board, would I feel be quite a feat. It would not need to be nonstop to the UK. Could always refuel along the way. Is there even any suitable airport enroute before you reach Europe? I'm not sure, not unl...
Jump to postI'd take Lufthansa on account on service level.
Don't worry about the 747-8, it's as safe as any of them.
Not quite. THR CLB is a constant thrust mode. The thrust will remain constant. But since you are in a less steep climb you will now accelerate past your speed target. So what we are saying, in Boeing speak, is essentially turn the FD off if you have it in N1 + FLCH mode and you want to handfly vert...
Jump to postFail op is an option on NG. Dunno about Max. It's quite rare though.
@benbeny: I don't think so. Icing is hit or miss, but winds tend to be quite calm in CAT III weather.
Flap jackscrew drive?
That's more of a gess though. I don't have the docs on me and never studied this in particular.
Some lines might also be there to define the critical ice accumulation areas for winter ops.
Jump to postThere are civilian 707s, just not in airline service. In cars, there is a minimum requirement of (I think) 10 years after end of manufacture. I guess for airliners it would be based on actual specific contracts. I'd say as long as someone is willing to pay for increasing cost of parts manufacture, t...
Jump to postI'm quite sure Airbus engineers considered options of shorter wing with winglet or raked wingtip... The technology was well known by the time the wing was designed.
They would have decided, that a bit more length in the airfoil was worth the disadvantage of not having a different wingtip device.
Try contacting people who post nice cockpit pictures here on A-net. They might be able to hook you up with printable originals of their pictures.
Jump to postNo, A/T is for inflight use only.
IIRC it wouldn't evel let you select such a low speed.
Europe by definition 'requires' an ATP but allows people to exercise it's privileges before they complete it. Which is bogus and circumvents the entire purpose of the ATP - Proven judgement acquired through experience. Explain please. I had a "frozen ATPL" until I had enough hours to sati...
Jump to postApparently, they missed their traditional summer release window. Hopefully, they won't wait until next summer - I guess if nothing goes majorly wrong, release in time for Christmas might work,
Jump to postI've bought it. The jury is obviously still out on how much I will use it and whether it will get to some reasonable per-hour sum, but judging by NGX hours (well into hundreds) and DHC-8 (getting there), it should prove itself worth it. One thing is obvous either way - it's in a league completely di...
Jump to postX-Plane is pretty good. It's really the only choice for helicopters, For small airplanes, it's generally better, except for maybe the A2A airplanes. It's lacking in big airliner section - there's the DC-6 from PMDG, thought that's not really in the class, IXEG 737 which is by all accounts a jump for...
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/musang" class="quote" target="_blank">musang</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>I've never known a jet engine whose gauges dis...
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Jump to postMight also be an aircraft off due to maintenance schedule being changed a bit (say a heavier check takes a day or two longer on one frame) and they need to cancel one rotation bringing this into account, and maybe your flight was easy to rebook given state of reservation at time...
Jump to postThat doesn't make sense. Armrests weigh the same whether up or down.
(was that a joke? I'm not sure)
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mham001" class="quote" target="_blank">mham001</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>Most cars here are bought off the lot, not...
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is this some king of a meta joke I don't get?
The point of no return has been passed sometime last year, in my personal opinion. I think it's best for all of us now accept that Greece is toast and work towards solving the problem, instead of just prolonging it. Germany would like Greece to man up and start doing something with itself, but that ...
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Jump to postLooks like the economic collapse blog has... collapsed.
On tpic though, what'd you expect from a site with a name like that, other than preaching economic difficulties?
Some stuff just disappears to be a part of "time of legends"... that's like it always is, everywhere. Cn't help it.
Anyone been trying to get a snowglobe through security lately?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/captjetblast" class="quote" target="_blank">captjetblast</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>I feel a bit dissapointed after ...
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Jump to postAFAIK, the postage is also subsidized by China itself. Otherwise yes, most of the cheap stuff just gets stuffed in the container and then gets offloaded in *add a port based on your location*. For Europe, I've noticed lately, at least some of the sellers actually make the shipping via Netherlands Po...
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