Are you talking about the takeoff climb segments?
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all ... b-segments
https://aviatorsguide.wordpress.com/202 ... -segments/
Or phase of flight?
I think Airbus for the 320 has 8 or 9 phases of flight.
I heard that in some major US carriers(though could be outdated information at this point), taxiing is the responsibility entirely of the captain. Granted, you don't have to parallel park or hill start an airplane and just keep in the centerline, things like braking distance and turning radius may ...
Jump to postIt’s $425 / hr.
https://tickets.deltamuseum.org/product ... -simulator
Even though the normal flight envelope of a typical airliner doesn't have any notable amount of G The normal flight envelope of a transport category aircraft is -1g to 2.5g clean and 0g to 2g with gear / flaps and slats extended. As required by Part 25 certification requirements. But to keep grandp...
Jump to postThe FFS can simulate Gs but not sustained Gs While doing upset recovery training the g meter in the flight deck will indicate 0g when you unload the aircraft but you don’t feel the 0g after you reach the limits of the platform articulation. Same when you try to recover from nose low. The g meter wil...
Jump to postVery informative. I found it interesting that DL has 3 A350 sims. I wonder if that's hint about future orders Delta has 2 Level D A350 FFS and 1 Level 7 A350 FTD not 3 A350 sims. The FFS are what most people think of as simulators. Level D simulators can be used to certify landings. Level C simulat...
Jump to postall simulators used for training at the airlines in the US have to obtain FAA certification. Here is a list of every active simulator currently certified by the FAA and who owns them https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/nsp/faa-qualified-flight-simulation-training-devices Our pilot contract prohibi...
Jump to postWell at least Southwest is still requiring ATP to apply. My airline dropped the requirement for an ATP certificate required. Now the requirement is to have the ATP written test results, but not require an ATP certificate. It will do what the regionals have had to do for years and offer the ATP-CTP ...
Jump to postWell at least Southwest is still requiring ATP to apply. My airline dropped the requirement for an ATP certificate required. Now the requirement is to have the ATP written test results, but not require an ATP certificate. It will do what the regionals have had to do for years and offer the ATP-CTP c...
Jump to postThe only OAL travellers on Spirit are those groups who have reciprocal flight attendant and pilot jumpseat agreements. your union will have the procedure to list for the jumpseat. but the website you access to list for flights will have the loads. Otherwise you can try to use the stafftraveller app ...
Jump to postWhen takeoff performance is critical enough to require a Packs Off take off, I leave the APU running after engine start and the Packs continue running off APU bleed. Same for the overweight landing procedure, the APU is started and Packs switched to the APU so that the engines don’t have to supply b...
Jump to postFrom what I hear 121 pilots are not very desirable in the corporate or part 91 or part 135 world anyway. The amount of work that needs to be done before a private flight or corporate charter flight is not something 121 pilots are used to. There is a lot of hustle that is done before ever stepping fo...
Jump to postWesternDC6B wrote:What is the red button? Bomb release?
The flight that diverted for an onboard fire yesterday…. That’s a straight “fire - need nearest airport now” and go. No talking with dispatch.
Get on the ground ASAP. Call dispatch, soc supervisor, chief pilot, union rep, and everyone else after you’re on the ground.
I need flaps full. That will be an additional $20, please insert coins.
Jump to postOnce a diversion begins, ATC will issue a new clearance for the flight to follow. When you divert for a medical emergency or weather at destination you’re already been in discussions with the dispatcher. Either via love notes (iMessage over the iPad to the dispatcher thru inflight WiFi or text messa...
Jump to postSoftware update to correct the 2/29/2023 issue the airline is having...
Jump to postAbout 99% of the problems I run into are solved by doing the CTRL-ALT-DEL to the component that is generating the ECAM caution.
Pull circuit breaker X99. wait 10 seconds, push circuit breaker X99, wait for component to reinitialize, ECAM goes away.
Continue flight.
GalaxyFlyer wrote:I just missed refueling off of KC-97s—that was sporty.
I think it’s all coordinated with the other two airports.
JFK doesn’t change runway configuration without coordination with LGA and EWR.
I think if you check ATIS for all three airports throughout the day youll get the bigger picture.
If it were economically feasible Im thinking they would have tried it by now. Feel free to start your own airline. Apply for the air carrier certificate and recruit the people to operate your airline. The bare minimum is a director of operations, a chief pilot, and a director of maintenance and 1 ai...
Jump to postAll this does is expand the pool of pilots that Southwest can draw from. It means that Southwest and other major airlines, like JetBlue, Frontier, Spirit, and Alaska are having the problem that used to be a regional airline (Skywest, Republic) problem. Pilots that would normally complete a pilot tra...
Jump to postBalance is probably not as big of an issue for the 170 than it is for a CRJ. When we converted the 70Y configuration of a CRJ-700 to a 9F/56Y configuration, we had to temporarily add weight in the form of a concrete crash barricade attached to the forward jackpoint at the front of the a/c to keep it...
Jump to postThe issue with Aspen has always been go around performance. As far as I know the 175 doesn’t have the go around performance. There is no aircraft that is capable of single engine go around. You’re committed to landing after the FAF. If we lost an engine inside the FAF the only option is to land. If ...
Jump to postI think that is a flight sim issue. The charted ILS 02 approach plate doesn’t show a CF02 When you load the ILS 02 it will try to link the approach to the STAR with an APPR VIA PESEX. Which then loads the box with PT422 PESEX NETVO without the discontinuity. If you do no transition then it loads the...
Jump to postThe box will fly exactly what is in the box. It’s incapable of thinking. The star ends at PESEX so should link right up with PESEX on the ILS 02. When you choose no transition you’re telling the box not to connect the two procedures so it puts in a discontinuity and keeps the procedures separate. PT...
Jump to postGPS altitude is altitude above a reference plane of a gravitational earth model, not any physical terrain. So it doesn’t correspond with MSL. https://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0703/geoid1of3.html So while using GPS altitude wouldn’t cause any issues in cruise flight, using GPS altitude near the sur...
Jump to postSo, does anyone see a day where above FL180 instead of using 29.92 in a pressure altimeter everyone uses GPS altitude as a true altitude? GPS altitude is altitude above a reference plane of a gravitational earth model, not any physical terrain. So it doesn’t correspond with MSL. https://www.esri.co...
Jump to postI once got an airplane with 8 MELs and 8 orange inop stickers - all 8 MELs were for cockpit lighting - oh no big deal...they're just light bulbs.... we flew the plane all day without any issues until.... the sun set... after the sun set the cockpit was dark - each light that was MEL'd was a light in...
Jump to postWe had a pax show up in Columbia (COU) to board his flight but his ticket was booked from Columbia (CAE)
Not the same thing but it was a headache for him that day.
Not knowing what your goals in aviation are, while you can get your certificates without attending an aviation college via Part 61 and Part 141 flight schools. The benefit of attending aviation colleges in the US is the reduction in flight time to 1000 hours to obtain a restricted ATP. So many peopl...
Jump to postA dipping sonar is nothing like a sonobuoy. - there is nothing “disposable” about a dipping sonar. The sonar transducer that’s “dipped” in the water weighs a few hundred pounds. it does “everything” active, passive, etc. Sonobuoys are a onetime use expendable with a limited lifespan. They’re special...
Jump to postAfter rereading the thread, a sonobuoy is not the same thing as a dipping sonar. And it appears you’re using the terms interchangeably. But are asking whether a quadcopter can carry a dipping sonar at less cost than a helo. Sonobuoys are expendable, one time use items, that contain their own battery...
Jump to postThere is a difference between sonobuoys and a dipping sonar. Sonobuoys are not all the same. All sonobuoy types are needed depending on what you’re trying to do. I can see value in a drone that carries 30-50 sonobuoys that can go out and seed my sonobuoy field and then loiter to relay the sonobuoy d...
Jump to postThere is no requirement for security screening. Actually there are flights in the US you can board today without going thru a security checkpoint. Granted the flight won’t be flying outside the state that the flight originates at. We had many flights that departed without security screening. Once we...
Jump to postThe LAMPs helo is more than just a sonobuoy carrier. There is a lot of capability in the helo that a drone can’t replace. The helo does and can do limited sonobuoy data processing independent of the ship. But the helo does offload the processing to the ship since the computer processing capabilities...
Jump to postThey’re probably not real sandbags. Instead it is a rectangular rubber puck that weighs 50lbs. Stackable I didn’t know mainline aircraft used them but it’s common for regional jets to get “sandbags”. They don’t need to comat them around sending them back to the origin. It goes for the flight that ne...
Jump to postCrap. I knew I mixed up the numbers somewhere. But it’s been about 20 years.
Jump to postA CRJ-200 has an average empty weight of 31300 lbs - each aircraft is different Max Takeoff Weight is 53,000lbs, max landing weight is 44,000lbs, max zero fuel weight is 47,000lbs So we are going on a flight from RIW to DEN a distance of 274nm along a routing of KRIW TOFUU.FLATI3 KDEN enroute fuel b...
Jump to postA turbine engine and a piston engines both do the same thing…. They both suck, squeeze, bang, and blow. The turbine engine does it all simultaneously, but a reciprocating engine whether diesel or 100LL or the internal combustion engine in your car does it sequentially in each cylinder. Same concept ...
Jump to postSeveral different cargo tie down securing options in A320 the flight deck. Most 320 seem to have the same cargo tie downs but then there are other planes where the cargo tie downs are different. There have been 4 different tiedowns I’ve seen
Jump to postIt’s fun watching Embraer pilots adjust from a nonstandard FCU to a standard FCU on non Embraer planes. For some reason Embraer decided to configure their FCU opposite to every other aircraft manufacturer so sometimes when they’re not thinking they’ll turn the heading knob when they meant to turn th...
Jump to postMaybe it’s this….. https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiSmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3cy55YWhvby5jb20vdW5pdGVkLWFpcmxpbmVzLWJsb2NraW5nLXNlYXRzLXVuZGVyLTEzMDAwMDI4Ni5odG1s0gFSaHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9hbXBodG1sL3VuaXRlZC1haXJsaW5lcy1ibG9ja2luZy1zZWF0cy11bmRlci0xMzAwMDAyODYuaHRtbA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=U...
Jump to postSemi-hijacking this thread, I was just looking at the Fokker 70 a few days ago. How did she compare against the CRJ and ERJ? According to Wiki, only 47 were sold to customers, roughly 300 of the family if you include the F100. CRJ family is at almost 2000, ERJ family at roughly 1250. Any ideas why?...
Jump to postIt is interesting that the corporation has kept the aircraft registration even though it was a park ride prop for decades. https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=234MM I wonder if the registration is still going to be kept current. FlightAware shows that it last fle...
Jump to postCosmicCruiser wrote:A J-3 with a radio? Mine didn't even have a battery! LOL
LAW is a bit different because of the R5601 airspace 3nm immediately north of the 18/36 runway which overlies the fort sill artillery range. For some reason pilots don’t like the big sky little artillery round theory of deconfliction of fires when I had to keep planes and indirect fire separated. Wi...
Jump to postLol the 320 tray tables are a disaster since pilots are nasty and can’t clean up after themselves, I love finding remnants of the previous pilots meal when I open the tray table to look at the flight paperwork. I can definitely see cracker crumbs, butter smears, and all sorts of detritus ending up i...
Jump to postIt’s probably a similar issue between sidesticks , but Is it easy for a right handed person to use the trackball/wheel with their left hand seated in the FO seat? I’m trying to figure out how you use the trackball and wheel. Are they used simultaneously or separately. It doesn’t seem to easily allow...
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