Does the Track (heading) FR24 granular data yield any clues? [ graph ] Track and heading are not the same thing. Just as ADS-B data gives us ground speed rather than airspeed, it gives us ground track rather than heading. That's the equivalent. You can't determine anything from those ground track n...
Jump to postThose close-in turning approaches are what most pilots train on before anything else. That's what a standard traffic pattern is, and if you don't come from a military background, chances are you spend the first several hundred hours (at least) of your piloting life doing them. They become second nat...
Jump to postI definitely would choose to fly first class over sitting in economy where I could watch the wing. I'm a CFII.
Jump to postIt's really more about identifying lower-likelihood events at this point than identifying the likely event. For example, this is not a dual-engine-failure flight profile, unless such a failure was not responded to as one would expect. There's no glide here. Etc. Agree, my feeling that this isn't du...
Jump to postThe B-2 is a heavy bomber. https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104482/b-2-spirit/ Note the "primary function" under "General characteristics". If you're asking what a plane would look like with the same payload as the B-52, it would just look like a bigger B-2...
Jump to postMikeChin wrote:Basically its Business from the 90's,
Today lie-flat seats in premium cabin is quite the norm when flying with FSCs, but up until the early 2000s at best you'll get a reclining chair & at worse, you get a simple wide seat. That got me to wonder, why did it take so long for lie-flat seating to be developed? For the same reason you d...
Jump to postNow that makes sense. I just remember being ppl back in the day. You guys sounded so cool . All us little guys wanted to sound the same. I learned to say good day when leaving the frequency. I think you're honestly talking about just being good on the radio vs. not being good on the radio. A lot of...
Jump to post747-100 on United, Continental and Northwest Orient 747-200 on PeoplExpress 747-400 on United, Northwest, ANA, JAL, British Airways 747-8i on Air China I might be forgetting a couple. Some of these, especially the UA and NWO 741 flights and the ANA and JAL 744 flights, I did many times. I've flown a...
Jump to postMy guess is that VMCA would be higher than the top speed of the airplane. You'd have a thrustline all the way outboard in one direction, and a ton of drag and weight outboard in the other direction. I'll bet you'd spin as soon as an engine failed.
Jump to postYou can technically get in to JFK on foot but I don't think there's a way to reach the passenger terminals anymore without taking the AirTrain. You can definitely reach the cargo areas, US customs, etc. just on foot. But the closest you can get to the passenger terminals is about 1/4 mile away on th...
Jump to postI suppose it depends on what "most famous airport" means, although no matter what your definition you can't separate the airport from the city it serves, so I don't think there is such a thing as a "most famous" airport. Just like cities, once you get to a certain tier, they're a...
Jump to postHaving passengers walking about on the platform with only a couple of gate agents to keep them within the marked path. I mean, JFK has done this pretty regularly, and I would think if any airport in the US is concerned about security, it'd be JFK. The reason remote stands aren't more common in the ...
Jump to postSOP at at least one airline I know that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is to close the door at departure minus ten. I think this is pretty common, if not standard. Obviously the door can still be held open if passengers are still not on board, but it might not always be if there's some logisti...
Jump to postIt depends. The people who automatically say "no" are the same people who look at the stock market when it's lowest and say it's a bad time to buy in. 5 years later when it's doubled in value, they think it's a great time to buy. This is the opposite of how you should be thinking. It's not...
Jump to postAnd here's what happens when you try to use the tiller on the takeoff roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGeKdNxH4U
Guessing that was a FO takeoff with the captain still on the tiller. I can only imagine the conversation in the cockpit after that.
Both a/c clearly announced their positions on final prior to the accident, so Im confused as to why neither of them realized they were that close to each other. The plane ahead has no real chance to see the plane behind. It's the following plane's responsibility to see and avoid once they're both l...
Jump to post"Low cost airline" meaning what? "LCC" or "Low Cost Carrier" is a specific industry term that means the airline does not have labor and other internal costs that legacy airlines have (mostly because they're newer and just haven't incurred those costs yet). It's got noth...
Jump to postZiyulu wrote:Didn't AA partner with B6 over 10 years ago?
peterinlisbon wrote:To me it seems a bit antisocial.
UPS flight 6 vented the cargo bay and crashed anyway. I'm not an expert on lithium battery fires, but my understanding is that once thermal runaway begins, the fire is not easily put out even when starved of oxygen. Valujet 592 had an airtight cargo hold, but that's kinda moot if you give the fire i...
Jump to postIt can be any combination of a few different things. Some illusions are absolutely crazy; you don't realize it until you actually experience them, and there's no way to really simulate some of them. The first time you actually can experience certain things properly is by being in the actual situatio...
Jump to postThe 787 and A350 also have a higher service ceiling compared to 777 and A330. Not quite... The A350, 787, 777 are all certificated to 43,100 ft Service ceiling and maximum operating altitude are two different things. The FAA and EASA certify maximum operating altitude. Service ceiling varies with l...
Jump to postNicknuzzii wrote:Switch your flight to EWR to avoid the quarantine.
TPG started out as a guy giving tips on how to collect the most number of points and then convert them into the most number of FF miles, then where to use those miles most efficiently. He was actually a little subversive, in that he was using some of the system's lesser-known features for gain and t...
Jump to postI don't remember flying Pan Am or Eastern in their final years (probably depends on what the duration of "final" is) but I flew TWA out of T5 at JFK in 2000 and they were just like any other airline. The terminal was still pretty immaculate, but I don't think I realized how special it was ...
Jump to postI was getting my PPL when "position and hold" was changed to "line up and wait." The reasoning I'm told was the old phrase could be misinterpreted as, "position and go" leading to an accident. The reason it was changed is that the ICAO standard is line up and wait. If ...
Jump to post"Tarmac" hasn't actually been tarmac for decades as far as I know. It's asphalt concrete. "Gate" is an outdated term. There used to be an actual gate leading outside that would be opened when the plane was ready for passengers; I'm old enough that I actually experienced a few of ...
Jump to postLooking at the POH (or at least *a* POH for a PA-32R-300), I don't see any reason why the plane shouldn't have been able to fly. It has a max useful load of 1644 lbs, and the six occupants, which included a man, two women, two babies and a 12 year old child, probably didn't weigh any more than 600 l...
Jump to postWell, my FltPlan Go still doesn't work... luckily I don't use it for much other than some basic calculations anymore.
Edit: Woops, just tried it and it's back. It was definitely out for a while, though.
Keep in mind that X-Plane is almost certainly not realistic in how it handles thrust vs. speed and climb in its AP modes. I doubt it's doing much other than adding some arbitrary amount of power and pitching up some arbitrary amount. The logic is almost definitely not the same as real life. I'm trai...
Jump to postThe reason aircraft are boarded the way they are now has nothing to do with efficiency or boarding time; it has to do with money. So good luck. This is kind of like saying you know how to make Disneyland's queues more efficient.
Jump to postOne of the videos I watched (blancolario, Mentour, who knows) seemed to suggest this happened fairly often, to the point where pilots would give each other tips on how to avoid hitting the switch when moving the throttles. It wasn't clear if the airline was training to avoid these situations or if ...
Jump to postThere are certain freedoms you give up when you choose to be a pilot. Privacy regarding medical issues are among them. Others include things like using marijuana even if it's legal in your state, or even taking many over the counter drugs (at all) for various illnesses. That's the case in the US; I ...
Jump to postThere's nothing much to worry about in flying at night vs. flying in daytime except for buildings and terrain. Everything else is actually easier to see. For buildings and terrain, just look at your charts and maps ahead of time and be sure to note anything near your flight path worth worrying about...
Jump to postClearly to be the pilots had their heads up their rear ends, but I'm curious about the actual ATC communications - I see the terms "advised to take an orbit" and "advised repeatedly (twice to discontinue the approach and once cautioned) about excessive height". Obviously we don'...
Jump to postKIWA runway 12C/30C is about 1/2 concrete, 1/2 asphalt. The other two runways are concrete. You can easily see this on Google Maps.
Jump to postIs there just a phone conversation to discuss the situation, or is it the beginning of a larger investigation? I've never had it happen to me but I know people who have. The short answer is that it depends on what the deviation was. Some deviations are rule violations that ultimately don't really i...
Jump to postI pay for it sometimes. I don't think some people here realize that the price is often not much different. I think the last time I did it was on a trip from JFK-FLL, where economy was like $225 and first class was something like $260. It seemed a no-brainer to me. I'd probably pay that difference ju...
Jump to postIt is SOP at most airlines I know of, not just this one, to initiate an evacuation only when there's imminent danger in remaining inside the aircraft. I don't see what about this accident would indicate imminent danger. Remember that the pilots even have gear temperature sensor readings, and that's ...
Jump to postIs this a case of pilots having some fun in light (covid related) loads ? Or this a non-standard but safe approach? It looks to be just a visual approach. This is literally the first kind of approach any pilot learns before getting their PPL, so nothing unsafe about it :) The lack of traffic these ...
Jump to postthe symptoms are the same, the difference is cause of one specific virus or caused by several. So, not spreading misinformation. The symptoms are absolutely not the same. The flu does not cause sudden respiratory failure in people who seemed healthy hours before, for one thing. What you're spreadin...
Jump to postWas this a European thing? I don't remember ever doing this on a US flight and I've been flying since the early 80's. (Technically since the 70's, but I would have been too young before the early 80's to remember this, or have dealt with it myself.)
Jump to postIt depends mostly on the taxi length. This takes into account warmup times, flows, etc. If the pilots know it's going to be a 30 minute taxi, they're going to do it on one engine. If it's 5, they'll do it on both. That's true of pretty much every airliner. Taxi times aren't usually a surprise. The p...
Jump to postThey are not the only ones doing it, but you can bet that if an accident ever occurs because two planes did not know what each other were doing due to different ATC languages being used, it'll stop right quick.
Jump to postA very small incident: the OP should have accommodated the crew request immediately and forgotten it one second later. Too fragile an ego here. I agree; this is basically a non-event. Also, you're really not supposed to be getting up to use the lav while a service is in progress - some airlines act...
Jump to postFrom what I know, it's going to be hard to get a job *anywhere* right out of flight school. That's what makes these CFI deals so attractive, and why you should probably just do it. Yes, there's a pilot shortage, and no, you probably won't have much of a problem getting a job at a regional once you'v...
Jump to postSam Chui gets away with a lot that normal passengers can't. Would not be surprised to see him on airlines payroll to be honest. I mean, he obviously has permission for what he does, and the airline is expecting him every time. I don't think that's any big secret. He's not doing ambush-style reviews.
Jump to postIs this for a checkride? Most pilots at this point won't fly an NDB approach in their entire lives; they're already uncommon, there are usually better options available and the ones that remain are being phased out. I remember I had to learn some stuff about NDB approaches for my instrument rating, ...
Jump to postThere was a much smaller galley in the back of the upper deck that didn't take as much space as the standard galley. Do keep in mind that the flights were pretty short, so I don't know how much beverage service was actually getting done. It's Japan, so almost definitely a full one on every flight. ...
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