If he had only tried to break into the cockpit, the FAA might give him a pass. But a pilot suffering from a diagnosable and treatable form of mental illness? BANNED FOR LIFE! Wouldnt matter. This will show up on any background check for any flying job or for a clearance into secure areas at an airp...
Jump to post“I got 10k hours in microsoft flight sim, put me in coach!”
Oh well, one more competitor for future jobs out of the way
Why is it always Scotland? To quote something i heard in a podcast: “Edinbrugh in january, where sun rises at 10am, sets at 3pm and everyone drinks themselves to an early grave” As far as the drunk pilot, congrats to every other pilot in that airline junior to him for their free 1 seniority spot bump
Jump to postSame reason why leather seats in cars are a "premium" trim. Theyre terrible, too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, but theyre "premium"
Jump to postEh, its a CR2, it doesnt have the weight to break thru the RESA, or the thrust to give anyone a blast of a time
That being said, im sure those pilots got satdown in the chief pilots office and tore a new one
Never going to happen. Every big industry has moved onto a designer and assembler business model, nobody (besides spacex maybe) is vertically integrated to any meaningful degree. Its massively cheaper to design a product, farm everything out, then assemble the components when they arrive from subcon...
Jump to postRamp rats dont care what kind of tags are on your bags. First off, last off, destroyed or lost, they get paid the same
Jump to postjapanese car engines (whats usually considered a japanese engine, a small, sub 2 liter 4 cylinder that revs 8000-9000rpm, dead nuts reliable, makes close to 100hp/liter) dont make anything remotely close to whats needed torque wise. Its easy to look at, for example, an IO360 from a skyhawk, making 1...
Jump to posthttps://nypost.com/2023/09/16/united-ai ... seats/amp/
Another moronic NYP article, this time about a sensational go around and “passengers got pushed back in their seats”. Fiziks is hard, mmkay?
Dont worry about hardware. This isnt ancient fsx running 32bit on a single core. I built my PC in 2015 and besides adding a dedicated SSD just for fs2020, its still on that hardware. Asus z87, 3.5 i5, 16gb ram, gtx960. With graphics on medium to medium high and FSLTL set to about 3/4 density i have ...
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Jump to postHere’s a question that noone asks. How much flying experience do you have? No, not Xplane or microsoft flight simulator, actual real world flight experience. Everyone wants to be a pilot, but until you got some seat time at the controls of a small training aircraft, you won’t know for sure, and its ...
Jump to postTicket price is for them to transport your skinbag of bones with a head attached from A to B with complimentary air to breathe. Everything else is extra
Jump to postI still don't think a motor to spin them is necessary. The airspeeds that airliners travel at even during final approach are still twice as high as the winds of powerful hurricanes. I am not sure how difficult airplane tires are to freely spin, but if you jack up your car and try to spin the non-dr...
Jump to postPerfect. 1 more very senior pilot out of the way on the seniority list
Jump to postYoure asking for it by booking less than an hour connection.
On the plus side, youre guaranteed a seat on the next flight because people booked 45min connections for that one and missed them
Big difference between a WB and NB flight there. Holding up a widebody for 15 min isnt a big deal when itll probably sit for a few hours or maybe all day/overnight at the other end before flying back. A narrowbody thats scheduled for 5-6 legs that day all with a 50min turn inbetween, if you hold up ...
Jump to postOption 1: cancel the flight because the crew would time out halfway, strand 300 people and a plane halfway around the planet , have to pay for hotels or reaccomodate pax on other flights/airlines. Half way around the planet? Tell me you have no knowledge of world geography without telling me you ha...
Jump to postLooks like this is the last few years to fly on a RB211 powered 757 from the US. United has RB211 powered 757s that fly across the pond. Yeah, but they also got Pratt 757s as well. No guarantee youll get Rollers. At least with FI, as long as you dont get punked with a max8 swap, youre guaranteed rb...
Jump to postLooks like this is the last few years to fly on a RB211 powered 757 from the US.
Jump to postYoure in for an tough battle. While the society is rapidly losing its stigma against mental illnesses, FAA and airlines are nowhere near modern age. Hell, its 2023 and airlines still dont allow visible tatoos. But as far as mental/behavioral issues, you gotta understand where the airlines stand. If ...
Jump to postTry DL on a DTW-MSP. 1hr flight or a 12hr+ drive. They charge as much as they want since theres 0 nonstop competition between 2 skyteam hubs
Jump to postLearned something new today. Didnt know that double clicking the TOGA buttons on B gave you full thrust. I was under the impression that on B, you advance the throttles halfwayish, let the engines stabilize, then click the TOGA button and it automatically advances the throttles to the programmed thr...
Jump to postGreat job by the flight crew. Kinda surprised they popped the slides for some road rash on the underside, but i understand why
Jump to postFrom everything ive read on the modern Airbii, TOGA on an airbus is the furthest forward notch on the thrust levers, it throws out any kind of assumed temperature reduction and gives you all the thrust the engines got, whether its full rated thrust or fixed derate set by the engine software TOGA is ...
Jump to postOk that sort of makes sense, and the part where a derated thrust gets you a shorter run to Vmcg, but i cant help but wonder about all the youtube videos of takeoffs, especially 757 takeoffs on contaminated runways where you can just tell by the engine sound (those awesome videos on RB211 757s from i...
Jump to post- Fixed derate. This is typically used on contaminated runways. It decreases VMC, minimum control speed, and thus somewhat paradoxically allows us to carry more while using with less thrust. With fixed derate, full thrust is NOT available until above a certain speed (F speed on Airbus) because goin...
Jump to postPair of a35ks to fly 20-30 people each. Seems ridiculously wasteful There are slightly more than 20-30 people associated with the team. 25-30 players on a team, 5-10 coaching staff and a couple admin staff for a good measure. Unless every single one of them brings their parents, wife and kids along...
Jump to postPair of a35ks to fly 20-30 people each. Seems ridiculously wasteful
Jump to postWhat are they gonna do? Show up at the airport, check their garbage, get thru security, show up at the gate and only then abandon their travel plans just because theres a gay plane sitting out front? Unlike woke brands and stores boycotts, this one would be impossible to carry out
Jump to postWow. For being a very visual sim it doesn’t have the ability to pick up IFR. I’ve heard it ain’t nearly as realistic as it is visually aesthetic. I wish to know more. Its a very pretty flying videogame, but a terrible simulator. Granted its only 2 years old so it has alot of maturing to do compared...
Jump to postHere’s a trick that works on FS9, especially for longer flights. In cruise, or when you’ve received clearance for your files cruising altitude, ONCE ATC advises you to contact the next controller, reply, BUT, do NOT actually contact the next controller. This also works is FS2020, except they dont b...
Jump to postI have the hot/cold valves and hate the american backwards hot on the left. Need to swap it to the european hot on the right cold on the left
Jump to postA320 N193NV is en route from MLB to PGD to enter revenue service. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/N193NV Just flew on 193NV PGD-FWA last night. Felt like a brand new plane, makes sense its only 2 weeks old since the cabin refit Flaps 2, Packs off, TOGA takeoff from PGDs tiny 6200ft runw...
Jump to postI love watching youtube videos of ATC recordings and the difference being local makes vs being from elsewhere. Main thing is 4 digit flight numbers spoken in street language vs official language. AAL 2550 pronounced American twentyfive fifty vs American two five five zero You almost have to be a nat...
Jump to postIn europe its lower because the mountains are lower/nonexistent. Netherlands is flat, hence 3000ft Ummm.. the Alps would like to have a word... Figured someone would chime in, might as well admit not knowing and ask a followup question of my own I found a random STAR into GVA, looked like a real cl...
Jump to posttransition altitude/transition level (one is used in climb, other in descend, dont remember which one is which) transition altitude is normally used in the climb --altitude where pilot is required to change from local QNH to standard 1013 / 29.92; transition level used during descent -change from s...
Jump to posttransition altitude/transition level (one is used in climb, other in descend, dont remember which one is which) are for guaranteed terrain clearance. In the US its FL180 because that gets safely over the rockies at 29.92 altimeter, and it was easy to make the whole country FL180. In europe its lower...
Jump to postUniteds blue tulip was the best they ever did before going knockoff Continental.
Jump to postJeez, whats your cost index to be descending at 320? I sometimes have trouble staying on speed and profile with the boards out and 280 managed descend in the fenix 320
Jump to postIve been flying Msfs since fs2002, and ive yet to find a 172 that flies remotely like the real thing. Freeware or payware, they all suck and dont behave anything like the real thing. Every single default 172 is way too touchy on the controls while being way too stable in rough air. A2A skyhawk for f...
Jump to postHow did the Fire trucks not see the bright ass landing lights right in their face and turn off onto the grass. Heavy fire truck wouldve for sure got stuck in the grass but at least wouldve avoided the collision
Jump to postTypical government BS. Interfering with peoples property and then wasting my taxpayer money locking them up over harmless things
Jump to postBCA is done for. They sat around doing nothing while airbus got miles ahead, then the max grounding and 2 years of work on that sealed their fate. Max shouldve been a clean sheet NB to replace all the early a320s and 737NGs. Now theres no market for a new NB with Neo and Cseries completely covering ...
Jump to postThey dont do this “decent wage” thing in America unfortunately
Jump to postYou guys can actually understand the PA announcements at airports? To me they sound like they came from a garbage quality speaker submerged in a pool of water across the airfield and whatever soubd gets in to the terminal, thats that
Jump to postWhat the the logistics for this engine change? Will AA charter a plane and fly one in from the US? Will a 777 engine fit in a 747 or does it need an A124? Is there a replacement somewhere closer than can be trucked in? Many years ago AA had a 777 stuck in DEL (when they flew ORDEL) for weeks waitin...
Jump to postI always find it interesting when planes will blow an engine on departure, then fly a pattern and land immediately, whereas other times theyll climb out on one engine, take up a hold somewhere, run checklists, then casually return with seemingly no sense of urgency. From everything ive read on here ...
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