The environmental inputs are done in an approved performance app external to the MCDU or manually from the performance manual…. (Gag me with a finger)
After takeoff performance is calculated the v speeds flap settings are finger inputted manually or uplinked automatically or manually to the MCDU.
There is a terrain display board at the American Airlines training center at GSW on the entire wall of a hallway where the camera flew over as the pilots flew in their simulator. It’s been there for at least over 20 years probably longer before I saw it for the first time 20 years ago.
Jump to postDear all, can anybody share any info about missed approach ground devices? I'm not a pilot so my terminology might be a bit off here. There's one nearby and you can have a look at it with google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/Via+Giovanni+Berchet,+San+Giuliano+Terme+PI/@43.7203517,10.432307...
Jump to postAH-64 has a lighter empty weight, but comparing the max takeoff weights (i.e. loaded up for combat) tells a different story AH-64: 23,000 lbs AH-1Z: 18,500 lbs Put the same number of weapons with fuel to fly the same mission and the AH-64E has better hot/high performance. The AH-64E simply has been...
Jump to postWind Cave national park as well. Totally missed this when we were out there. A little bit further past Mount Rushmore and Custer Could probably do a loop - Rushmore, custer, wind cave, devils tower…. Make sure you get your reservation early to go inside the command bunker of the missile silo in the ...
Jump to postSo, in a nutshell, is the US standard: you get paid when the door is closed? No. If it’s just the door that’s closed and nothing else you aren’t getting paid Whatever criteria the airline has set to trigger the ACARS to generate an OUT time is when flight crew (pilots and flight attendants) start g...
Jump to postWe have charts for central/South America it’s not detailed. You locate yourself inside a 15’x15’ grid and based on where you are dictates where you fly the depressurization escape route. To locate yourself you turn on the WPT display on your ND and our database has all of the depressurization waypoi...
Jump to postI appreciate that. I too enjoy these mathematical digressions. I didn't want to cheat and go to my aircraft performance books and pull out a formula. It was quite fun working it out on my own. One thing my late father who was a brilliant engineer always taught me to heart is always derive everythin...
Jump to postYou cannot fly 550kts. The most you can do is Mmo/Vmo. The emergency descent profile if there is no structural damage is flown at Mmo/Vmo at flight idle and speed brake deployed you can get really high descent rates. You do not want to roll 90 degrees, airliners do not have enough roll authority lik...
Jump to postIt’s rare that temperature is below ISA. It’s usually above ISA.
Jump to postNK just instituted all windows shades being open after the ACY rejected takeoff incident.
Jump to postI was looking for manufacturer plate on the 321 I was flying today. Looking in the L1 door frame I didn’t find a builders plate anywhere in that door frame. But I did find a “Mortgaged to XYZ Trust Bank as Loan Trustee” placard riveted on top of the L1 door frame. The placard had a part number. D###...
Jump to postHow are the a220/e190s configured vs 10F/135Y on a NK 319?
Jump to postI wouldn’t trust a RNP 20 approach. That is worse positional accuracy than required for oceanic
Maybe RNP 0.2
Obviously there's extremes on both sides. I flew with a Capt. on the 727 many years ago who wouldn't turn on the thunderstorm lights in cruise and forbid any reading. every leg in the middle of the night was horrible. Then on the other end, I came up front from my rest period, MD-11, to find the F/...
Jump to postFAR 25 is the starting point for certification of transport category aircraft in the US
Jump to postIn the US, music, videos, and reading material are not permitted in the flight deck However reading company manuals, watching training videos and listening to audio recording and studying the overhead panel is permitted. I hear ATC audio and the audio training material simultaneously. But ATC audio ...
Jump to postATC isn’t responsible for separation within that airspace. There is Joshua approach. Kind of like military areas. ATC keeps nonparticipating IFR traffic out of the airspace. But the flight numbers and call signs are specific to destinations. So everyone already knows where that plane is going by the...
Jump to postnot an airliner, but here is a recent video of a plane last month that lost all engine power and made a forced landing. The pilot managed his energy really well and even taxied off the runway using residual energy. https://youtu.be/CEMlny_ExuU Commentary https://youtu.be/C30b2OQDj_8 At least he didn...
Jump to postNormally a 320 has no issues with the weight of bags carried in the cargo hold. However for a flight as short as MEM to ATL, a flight might become weight critical is due to the maximum landing weight and the flight is not long enough to burn off enough fuel, so the maximum takeoff weight is far less...
Jump to postMCO is not prohibited from doing cat iii It’s now airframe dependent if you can do cat iii autoland and you have to check that your aircraft complied with the alternate method of compliance to do a cat iii autoland My airline can do cat iii to 600 RVR in MCO today if needed. The inner markers are no...
Jump to postI don't know if anyone can answer this question but I'm curious. 12 days ago, I flew from KATL to KFLL on DL1502, (A321). This past Sunday I flew from KFLL back to KATL on DL1502 (A321) and noticed that the flight crew turned the flight around. My question is what a typical flight day would be for ...
Jump to postIf a pilot doesn't do anything it would end up on the NLG. I've never seen it go down to -2, but then again, I've always applied back pressure as that is what is taught from your first flight in a single engine piston DA-20/C152/C172. I don't think any pilot would intentionally let the plane put it ...
Jump to postWhen it occurs, the ECAM will tell the crew - FLAPS HALF SPEED and SLATS HALF SPEED.
So I guess that is the Airbus term.
My former operator also did not pay for the 40C mod (never knew there was such a thing), despite it pretty much always being 30C+. Something new every day! We used to have to leave the slats out when the OAT was 30c+, but then one day we got a bulletin in our manuals explaining that a new mod was i...
Jump to postEach airline has its own callouts. Each airline has a standardization committee/unit which comes ups with standards so that two pilots who have never met before can operate a two pilot aircraft safely. There are many instances of individual pilots making things up or coming up with their own procedu...
Jump to postIt was quite frustrating to shoot the ILS 13 three times, going around each time after holding over western central and eastern Pennsylvania for over an hour and then having to divert after all of that effort. Just didn’t have enough fuel to outlast the weather. Lol Really needed the 1200 RVR or 100...
Jump to postYep. Fly up the Hudson past the 13 localizer 3 left turns to intercept.
Too bad it’s only cat I 1800 RVR mins
Are you in Europe, Asia, North America or South America? It depends. If you are in the UNited States, you can see about doing an intro flight at a local flight school at an airport to see if you like it. 13 is still young, but in general to become an airline pilot in the US you generally need a bach...
Jump to postThey didn’t pay for the mod which increases the temp limit to 40c before the bleed leak computer calls it a bleed leak.
Jump to postRevenue standby depends on a lot of things like fare class, advantage status, etc.
30 people isn’t a lot of people on standby.
Sometimes the standby list can get as long as 200 people and there’s only 160 seats on the plane.
Flight AA4060 from RDU to BNA. Pilot announced the flight was on time, flight level 36,000ft, block to block time, etc. About 10 minutes later, he came on the intercom and announced that they had loaded too much fuel we were too heavy, and we would need to run up the engines for 15-20 minutes to bu...
Jump to postAbsent an aircraft type retirement or base closure (or other such event), can a junior FO holding a reserve 777 spot be displaced if a more senior pilot wants that spot? Only if there is a displacement bid. A senior pilot can only bid into a spot if there a vacancy and they have the seniority to ho...
Jump to postIt depends on the approach procedures designed for the runway. The ALSF 1 and ALSF 2 approach lights are associated with cat II and cat III ILS MALS and variants are associated with cat I approaches Cat 1 approaches generally have minimums of 200ft and 1/2sm / 1800RVR. By the time aircraft reaches D...
Jump to postWe don’t enter every single point…. When the route flies along airways we enter the first point then the airway followed by terminating waypoint or another airway. That box fills in all of the points of the airway in between…. But if you’re doing oceanic tracks that change daily or random routes the...
Jump to postI guess thats better than involuntarily assigned to GUM… It would be an interesting adventure I think until you could bid for something IN CONUS. I remember asking for west coast assignments, only to talk to assignments and found out I got banished to purgatory in Okinawa…. Had fun for two years unt...
Jump to postHe probably makes more as an influencer from YouTube than he did as an EMB-145 captain. He will probably still make more as a social media influencer from YouTube until he makes second year FO at United. But he does have an income stream outside of the airline so he can put up with 777 FO in IAD muc...
Jump to postUnless handflying, pilots don’t get to choose the bank angle…. Well some planes have a half-bank switch the pilots can select… The pilot directs the course via the flight control panel (tactically) or the FMS.FMGC (strategically) and the autopilot follows its algorithms to turn the aircraft at the b...
Jump to postThere is no requirement to fly a narrow body aircraft before flying a wide body aircraft. An aircraft is an aircraft. To me they are all the same. 737 / 777. The only thing that matters as an airline pilot is seniority and quality of life. That particular pilot in question who went from Emb-145 capt...
Jump to postOver at Delta, the junior 737 Captain was hired 4 months ago in November 2021…. NYC 737 Captain is so undesirable it goes so junior.
And at Southwest, the junior 737 Captain was hired in 2011, 11 years ago.
From what I hear in the grapevine the wide body spots are going junior. It’s the younger people in the new hire classes who are being involuntarily assigned the wide body slots. The narrowbody 737/320 spots are being chosen by the senior people in the class. Part of it is because the international w...
Jump to postThe last time someone tried to use the rudder aggressively (not to slow down though) AA587 happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ ... Flight_587
Well there’s still time for an a.netter to book a seat on tomorrow’s flight and ask the crew for the reason for the convoluted routing to Las Vegas
Jump to postIt’s not any different than pilots that fly control yokes and ram horns with their non dominant hand. ie 727 convair880 md11 and dc10s 707s
No side sticks on those planes
They’re just as off center as the side sticks
Trying to understand to understand the process. After rotation and wheels up, the aircraft is then leveled, with flaps extended, until speed builds up? Wouldn't retracting the flaps help with reducing drag in order to increase speed (clean wings), or is this necessary to due to needing to overcome ...
Jump to postAll four airports EWR, TEB, LGA, JFK are interconnected and so any runway use changes affect all 4 airports. Using 13 for landings at LGA or 13L/R at JFK forces other airports to change configuration which impacts arrival and departure rates. I guess some reading suggestions for the OP https://www.f...
Jump to postIf you’re flying over the Hudson River and LGA is landing on 22 and launching off 13, the ATC instruction is “cleared direct to Verrazano bridge fly up the Hudson” Further up the Hudson you get radar vectored to either join the localizer for 22 or you’re cleared for the visual 22. If LGA is launchin...
Jump to postThe turbines and gas generator on a turboprop whine just as much as their turbofan brethren. But they are magnitudes smaller than the turbines and gas generators on a turbofan engine.
Jump to postI believe the UAL pilot account is in part 2 under the section header called “crash in Panama, alert pilot in Chicago” around the middle of the article
It’s about 4 paragraphs worth of blurb.