8 sectors per day is how many hours per day? I can’t believe 16.
Jump to postThe developed world has been reducing emissions, unlike China and other developing nations. Africa will be next to develop using cheap energy. While I agree in general with your post, I need to correct a couple of things. 1. The developed world did not reduce emission, they just exported it to the ...
Jump to postAdd in Class G airspace right next to London, Farnborough, for example, which means getting a “joining clearance” to enter CAS.
Jump to postIn their fight against global warming fanatical environmentalists have spray-painted a corporate jet and glued themselves to its wings. How much further will this flight shaming movement go? So now the aircraft needs to be repaired. Guess what that does? It burns greenhouse gases. I wish people wou...
Jump to postYes, as a corporate FOQA gatekeeper, I’m finding errors, too. Crew contacts straighten them out, but it frustrating for everyone.
Jump to postIf the O2 was was off or depleted, the masks wouldn’t deploy. If the bottle was low, it’s possible the masks might drop, supply to passengers might not last long. There’s a bottle pressure gauge displayed at the bottle, I’d assume, in the cockpit. It’s been awhile since I flew Citations.
Jump to postThat might work, if the overhead speaker was on.
Jump to postMohawkWeekend wrote:Just conjecture but if my only pilot slumped over, I'd be doing my best to start CPR.
Guess we will never know.
Here’s an NTSB Report on a single pilot Citation incapacitation.
https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/ ... 102508/pdf
The APC site has the domiciles but not which crews are based where. ATL, DTW, LAX, MSP, SEA, SLC, those are the crew bases.
Jump to postIf the pax didn’t understand what happened until the plane left radio coverage on the frequency tuned, they’d probably not find a center frequency unless they knew about 121.5.
Jump to postsingle engine take off when empty? Not possible, technically or legally. Quads and Tris, maybe depending conditions and they have procedures for doing so. No twins, though. You don’t have the rudder authority to accelerate to Vmcg and on to V1 on one. Besides, Quads and Tris have an “out” in the ev...
Jump to postThere’s a pull curtain, mostly to keep lights out of the cockpit at night, but no door. We never used to block out the pax.
Jump to postNYC is impacted because of the airspace driving which runways at 4 airports.
Jump to postThat’s been FAA standard for quite awhile, don’t agree with it, either. On the other side, I’ve been less than 300 feet AFE on approach in non-US airports before I’ve gotten landing clearance. I’m not sure that is safer than the US way since a go around would be required with no landing clearance a...
Jump to postThat’s been FAA standard for quite awhile, don’t agree with it, either. FAA/JO 7110.65 saith, 10−6. ANTICIPATING SEPARATION a. Landing clearance to succeeding aircraft in a landing sequence need not be withheld if you observe the positions of the aircraft and determine that prescribed runway separat...
Jump to postThat’s what I love about shooting sports—the money involved is so trivial, winning doesn’t pay for dinner. All sports have been ruined by the money which promotes cheating, tolerance of bad behavior, rich egos all around. When F1 drivers needed the starting money to pay the rent, it was great to wa...
Jump to postVS11 wrote:GalaxyFlyer wrote:Paint job on that would be $100,000 US.
Does insurance cover that?
KLGA has been reporting 1-1/4 HZ FU and R04 RVR of 6000 for the last 4 hours. FU in METAR is Fume, French smoke
Jump to postThat’s what I love about shooting sports—the money involved is so trivial, winning doesn’t pay for dinner. All sports have been ruined by the money which promotes cheating, tolerance of bad behavior, rich egos all around. When F1 drivers needed the starting money to pay the rent, it was great to wat...
Jump to postNot being iced over doesn’t prove anything with more information—atmospheric conditions, when it was or was not depressurized, etc. I’ve flown long legs with the window here missed, it only became apparent at low altitude when the now cold soaked windows froze up hard on hot, humid Kansas day in des...
Jump to postPaint job on that would be $100,000 US.
Jump to postMy record was, IIRC, 62 touch and goes, 3 no-flap full stops, in one week. And 2 hours of AR. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Another IP in my squadron did four hours of visual patterns—I think it was something like 40 touch and goes. I’ve seen KC-10s at Hickam do an AR flight and be back on the grou...
Jump to postWould have 97 or 98, Gary Cook, I think.
Jump to postEveryone was a paid professional pilot, many with 1,000s of hours, others military. Just not 121 Ang the traditional PPL in a 172.
Jump to postWe did ERCCs, too. The plane flew 8 hours of LP. Thursday night was 4 hours of AR, split into 2 2-hour periods with an ERCC. C-5 wasn’t too hot. Went into Grissom from Lajes one time after Serbia war. I think it was an A&W one of the pilots from there took us to for lunch. Customs wanted us to b...
Jump to postI didn’t say they were statistically valid, just personal experience. I have no idea how many hours the hundreds of pilots I’ve known flew, but it’s a pretty big number. Certainly the miles driven anmong those people is in the millions. And my experience is shared by many brethren. True, the fatal a...
Jump to postAfter these accidents, the FAA did extensive simulator testing, with real air crews. They were surprised to find the extent to which the crews all handled the same problem differently, and mostly not in specific accordance with their training. The result of that was the realization that you cannot ...
Jump to postMy record was, IIRC, 62 touch and goes, 3 no-flap full stops, in one week. And 2 hours of AR. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Another IP in my squadron did four hours of visual patterns—I think it was something like 40 touch and goes. I’ve seen KC-10s at Hickam do an AR flight and be back on the groun...
Jump to postAccording to CNN, FAA controllers lost radio comms with the Cessna only 15 minutes after the plane took off. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/us/virginia-plane-crash-fighter-jets-investigation-monday/index.html If this is the case, they were likely dead long before the crash. If the plane had a press...
Jump to postSingle pilot operation, everyone is concentrating on hypoxia event, there are many types of incapacitation. A friend slumped over in the passenger seat, burst aneurysm, dead in moments. I the fact that there is not indication of passenger actions supports all being hypoxic, but until the report come...
Jump to postCheck out APC, better source for these details.
https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/air ... _air_lines
I had 2500 hours in them, long ago. There was no “bleeds off” procedures. IIRC, the switch on the right side pedestal below the radio panel, was OFF, L, NORM, R, EMER. It was left in NORM all the time that I recall. Light, it’d climb pretty fast and there’s no aural warning, the Master Warning on th...
Jump to postAs others have said, a high cabin altitude would trigger alerts that would be nearly impossible to miss. Therefore, my guess is the pilot became incapacitated for reasons other than decompression/hypoxia, such as heart attack, stroke, etc. With no other crewmembers on board, the poor family was hel...
Jump to postThe pilot was announced by CNN, former WN captain, ATP B737 and several Cessna types, latest being the CE500 in late 2022. So, slathers of experience in crewed planes. The are many false economies in private aviation, single pilot in jets in one of them. I say that with 1200 of single pilot fighter ...
Jump to postJust another building in NYC What is different about 30 Rockefeller Plaza, One World Trade Center, 30 Hudson Yards, and One Vanderbilt compared to this building? The Empire State Building is obviously a unique design that is found nowhere else and an iconic symbol of New York City. Observation deck...
Jump to postsealevel wrote:This aircraft contains both a fdr and cvr correct?
Flight Global says the first retired one has just over 33,000 hours. Not, by any means, the highest flight time, but within 5,000 hours of the highest and lowest times. Depending on how many Local Pros it flew, it might have lots of cycles, four hours of touch and goes is hard, but they’ve reduced t...
Jump to postAssuming this is hypoxia related, I'm having trouble understanding how the pilot would not be able to get oxygen in time or at least initiate descent. The flightpath doesn't appear to show any attempt at dropping to a breathable altitude, which is what I would expect if there was a discovered issue...
Jump to postThen, no. It’s a single pilot airplane. Under 135 and 91K, I believe there’s a process to count flying time in a single-pilot plane, as a “developmental” pilot. Still need a Commercial Certificate.
Jump to postToo small by orders of magnitude.
KBGR, among other airports in the US, has a few terrain features that can trigger a GPWS warning but not on final.
KAUS is flat from experience and the charts. I’d suspect 5G but the FAA has cleared the type and airport. The “usual” GPWS on final might be “sink rate”or “glide slope” if it’s a hastily done visual, not terrain. Any of these will be recorded in a FDM program.
Jump to postJust another building in NYC
Jump to postWhat regulations are flying under? US, 91, 91K, 135. EASA, TC. Pilot-in-Training isn’t FAA, though. In general, no.
Jump to postThe problem with the Helios accident is the fact that the cabin altitude warning on the 737 is the same as the take-off configuration warning, so the crew thought they were getting the take-off configuration warning. Now they have lights on the main panel, so when that alarm goes off, they can look...
Jump to postRIP to all onboard. I did have a question, and forgive my ignorance to these things, but do corporate/GA aircraft that are pressurized not have a warning system of some sort to aler the pilots that the cabin is losing or is no longer pressurized? Granted, if it's a sudden depressurization (ie the W...
Jump to postTrue, but it’s another layer of protection. Helios was pretty unusual, look at the number of pressurization related accident in GA ops—everything from TBM to jets. Helios crew misinterpreted the altitude warning horn and didn’t properly analyse the problem.
Jump to postRIP to all onboard. I did have a question, and forgive my ignorance to these things, but do corporate/GA aircraft that are pressurized not have a warning system of some sort to aler the pilots that the cabin is losing or is no longer pressurized? Granted, if it's a sudden depressurization (ie the W...
Jump to postIf it was on an auto pilot flight plan, is it possible that people in the aircraft could have been incapacitated before it reached ISP? Or is is more likely that something happened right before landing? The only thing that seems odd with the second scenario is that it didn't descend at all. If a pi...
Jump to postWow, supersonic flight to catch the slowest jet, Citation pilots will crow about that.
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