Turn signals that flash a minimum of 3 times+ when the stalk is momentarily pressed. One of the actually useful features for Highway lane changes. Not if you have to change your mind about the lane change. Perhaps if you could cancel it by flipping the stalk the other way momentarily I could see it...
Jump to postA stall won’t dramatically damage the airliner, they’re tested for it. An approach to stall where the shaker sounds at low altitude doesn’t require much altitude loss. The RNAV arrival, in your example is all managed by the FMS, displayed on the PFD and FD cues and can be hand flow, more accurately ...
Jump to postThe ATP rule has been an undoubtedly good thing. It’s not outrageous to say those flying Air Transports should be Air Transport Pilots. True! Airliners with 500 hr commercial pilots not flying in the US are literally falling out of the sky left and right in far away foreign lands not called the Uni...
Jump to postAge won't be such an issue with reduced crewing, and then no one in the cockpit at all. No more human error. Unfortunately, it'll happen overseas first, since the US is abrogating its leadership role. We'll I guess it already exists in the military and the corporate world. I've often wondered if si...
Jump to postUnfortunately, it'll happen overseas first, since the US is abrogating its leadership role. Why's that "unfortunate"... no one other than corporate bean-counters in a dark cubicle actually WANTS that. “We” as in the USA, as a population of 330 million don’t give out $10 million careers li...
Jump to postWould it be on for a crosswind landing? Does yaw damper only dampen external yawing and not pilot induced? I can only speak for Airbus but we can't actually turn the yaw damper off as it is an integral part of the flight control system. Large swept wing jets tend to require a yaw damper on at all t...
Jump to postDH106 wrote:Turn signals that flash a minimum of 3 times+ when the stalk is momentarily pressed.
Here’s the NTSB preliminary report. From it we learn the crew used the wrong checklist for the indicated EICAS message. EICAS messages were AP STAB TRIM FAULT and AP HOLDING NOSE DOWN, which is serious situation but they went with the PRI STAB TRIM FAIL, which nowhere addresses the out of trim condi...
Jump to postReading is a good thing. Should that be expensive to learn? As a modern society, we’ve all agreed that a certain baseline of literacy, maths skills, etc are expected, so education, however good or bad are provided by society, We don’t expect advanced education leading to very remunerative careers a...
Jump to postIt’s not mentioned in the latest NAT Manual on the ICAO website. FAA .65 does shoe ITP climbs on the WATRS. I’m thinking it doesn’t exist in NAT HLA.
Jump to postl Um, why should people be paying for a career? Because the get the benefits. Good things in life don’t come cheap, somebody pays. Reading is a good thing. Should that be expensive to learn? As a modern society, we’ve all agreed that a certain baseline of literacy, maths skills, etc are expected, s...
Jump to post750 for the military, 1250 for a 2 year college program, 100 for a 4 year college program. And students still have to pay near 6 figures in most cases. The pipeline is nice but still cost prohibitive for a lot of people and still doesn't address the lack of mental health acceptance evolution at the...
Jump to postI got a better idea. Lower the ridiculous 1500 hour rule (those Colgan pilots both had over 1500 hours total time, rest was the factor in that crash). And be more adapting to people that have actually pursued mental health treatment and have had success from said treatment. With MH awareness becomi...
Jump to postSantos Dumont in Rio, ASE or EGE in Colorado.
Jump to postUfsatp wrote:If allowing it somehow reduces the ALPAs bargaining power to lower pilots wages and see lower fares I am all for it.
But one obvious benefit of hindsight is that we use it to cast historical judgment on the "deciders". In this case the deciders lose and it's not really a contest the way you're arguing. We knew 15 of 19 hijackers were Saudis, and I'm sure when the intel gets released long after I'm dead ...
Jump to postHow about just lowering the ridiculous 1500 hour minimum for new pilots down to something reasonable like 500-700 hours? That might help make flight training attainable for young people. We only got 1500 hour minimums as an over reaction to the colligan air q400 crash in buffalo, and it was 100% ov...
Jump to postWe need to consider what the alternatives were—the sanctions were being undermined by the Russians and French; Saddam and Iraq were a time bomb of ethic strife waiting to happen. Arab Spring in Iraq would have unleashed it. It’s a cost/benefit analysis. Besides, he tried once to invade and control t...
Jump to postIt wouldn’t require partners to front billions, just an investment that is fully at risk. The nice thing about rich people they don’t like losing their own money, that watch it like a hawk. Put that to work, you want to earn big profits in a business, put something at risk. Which, by the way, is how...
Jump to postThere’s tons of regulation, the latest being Dodd-Frank. Many regulations tend to drive away diversification making the system more brittle despite individual banks lowering their risks. https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/research-department-working-paper/2020/the-impact-of-regulatory-stress-tes...
Jump to postThere’s a lot of benefits for limited liability, but like all th8ngs there’s trade-offs. Much of a Wall Street was, for most of its history- partnerships, not limited liability corporations. It makes sense in some areas—law and finance with many moral hazards, it might be an idea in some new fashion,
Jump to postCan’t say about airlines, but a Global 7500 did ZRH-KOA this winter, non-stop. A hardy A.net route.
Jump to postSVB, with all those Treasuries and high-grade MBS, was financially sound. The problem was a large portion were Hold To Maturity (HTM which meant, with rising interest rates, the bank couldn’t sell them to meet depositors’ demand for their cash on short notice. Hedging would have helped but GAAP rule...
Jump to postAs a child, I was taught to be seen, not heard. As an adult, in public places, I still aspire to that ideal. Two trips, I happily gave my seat, so a couple would be together. Almost, wordlessly., too. A simple gesture works.
Jump to postThanks...that article was well written. It's well written and completely contradicts your earlier comments/insinuations that "Yellen" or "The Fed" caused this to happen to SVB. You should acknowledge that because otherwise the stance is a very real part of the problem and the re...
Jump to postcpd wrote:A lot of old cars had column shifters - even mid 50s vintage.
Anyone who has flown across several airlines isn’t surprised how the very dame plane is operated vastly different. In the old days, a lot was in the whim or experiences of the Chief Pilots. When an airline writes their manuals and differs from the OEM procedure there’s a review by the OEM, answer be...
Jump to postNot at EA Shuttle, standard complement—4 on the shuttle configure B727. Not much service offered.
Jump to postCivilian or Military, and which branch If employed as a pilot do you fly outside of work. If so, what types of flying Education levels Specific aviation engineering experience—design, certification, flight test Areas of flight experience, if other than airline—corporate, OEM, charter, bush, military...
Jump to postI think San Francisco or Honolulu ARINC will be ready for phone patch nor position report. Probably like having the work. Did it that way for decades. Position reports are easy, and so are phone patches, they just take time and as I'm sure you know, the comms aren't the greatest. I had two overwate...
Jump to postIf the ICC wants to hurt Putin, they’ll have roll it and poke him in the eye because he won’t visit anywhere risking arrest. His chances of swinging thru Western Europe or the US are zero. And, a lot of countries that might have a responsibility to arrest him would look the other way should he show ...
Jump to postProbably no market for T-1s, if it’s even possible to bring them into compliance with FAA certification standards. The fleet has been military for a long time. The T-1s go away, all pilot trainees fly an enhanced sim/VR program, followed by a bit longer T-6B flight training. Then winged, he fighters...
Jump to postWho, then, should be hired for this position? The CEO of Spirit? The general manager of ATC Oakland? The CFO of Boeing? Who is the ideal candidate to oversee certifications and upgrades of airports and air safety? Perhaps, the FAA is spread across too many areas, technical, political and financial....
Jump to postHonestly, 25 hours is too short imho. I would like to onboard recording capacity at 72-96 hours. Or 25 hours if there's remote storage/downloading - at minimum - at the end of each flight. The remaining 71 is stored on servers. I’m fine with 25 hours, I suppose, but what possible use is 96 hours? T...
Jump to postWho, then, should be hired for this position? The CEO of Spirit? The general manager of ATC Oakland? The CFO of Boeing? Who is the ideal candidate to oversee certifications and upgrades of airports and air safety? Perhaps, the FAA is spread across too many areas, technical, political and financial....
Jump to postIf it was an operational C-5A/B mission, 120-150 off-load was pretty normal. That’s about 5-6 hours of extended range. The MOG trip,we did 4 refuelings of about 80-100 keach
Jump to postI don’t their drogue transfer rates, but I hope it reasonably fast. Didn’t know that about RAF tankers.
Jump to postVideo looks exactly like a formation rejoin, lead pursuit curve, shows some belly up to impact. Pilot came in from low, probably to keep the drone in sight, but climbing at the drone. Not unreasonable closure, considering the speed difference, just overcooked it a bit. Until the very end, you can se...
Jump to postInteresting, it would be the Brits. I guess no savings in removing the receptacle.
Jump to postThey don’t compute the aero dynamics from Reynolds number and lift coefficients, it’s more like the selected aircraft CG, weight, conditions produce certain handling characteristics. Just as for 1/2 mile in fog, the don’t compute how to create fog, they just have a visual screen like a TV picture o...
Jump to postI would guess latency would prevent a last minute response by the drone pilot.
Jump to postI think San Francisco or Honolulu ARINC will be ready for phone patch nor position report. Probably like having the work. Did it that way for decades.
Jump to postYes, the engine retrofit was big, but from what LM and GE engineers that went around the wings asking crews our experiences told us—the main fuel savings was from thrust allowing faster climb and cruising at the wing’s optimum level. It was the engine’s improved TSFC, only about 3% better, but 4,000...
Jump to postIt’s only showing the HOOTA RKCTY2 arrival routing, the route from ICN has been dropped out.
Procedure title change usually with a major redesign of procedure. Sometimes a very long time.
They don’t compute the aero dynamics from Reynolds number and lift coefficients, it’s more like the selected aircraft CG, weight, conditions produce certain handling characteristics. Just as for 1/2 mile in fog, the don’t compute how to create fog, they just have a visual screen like a TV picture of...
Jump to post! It’s not cheap to install receptacles, there’s a lot of engineering to do plus flight test and, again, zer return. Then you have all the training and currency events to plan and pay for. The Navy historically rarely refueled off boom tankers. They get places by ship. That’s changed in the recent ...
Jump to postDoesn't your Republican party argue right now that the US should stop paying, including US debt holders ? You know, default on these Treasuries ? That’s not exactly true. They, as has the Democrats, holding the debt ceiling hostage. The USG can, and will, make their debt payments. Without borrowing...
Jump to postBoom needs a receptacle in the receiver aircraft. On drogue refueling the tanker trails a hose, th hen the receiver flies the plane’s probe into the drogue. Very different systems. Probes are both hard installed or retractable.
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