<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jollo" class="quote" target="_blank">jollo</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I was yet another kid swept away by Top Gun the ...
Jump to postThe opening sequence is one of the very few "real life" scenes in the entire movie. It is a mix of different video clips taken during actual flight ops aboard Big-E on deployment in Indian Ocean in 1984. We were flying 24/7 so the film crew got whatever they could get at the time. "Fireplug" was tha...
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Jump to postAA used to allow dual ratings with the pilot responsible for his costs to maintain his second type rating. <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> covered the training costs only. The pilot had to schedule his recurrent training to not interfere with his "other type" flying. In <acrony...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAX772LR" class="quote" target="_blank">LAX772LR</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>Very surprised that <acronym title="Atla...
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Jump to postNot sure about the "black engine"... could it have been the usual dirty cowling? I can find nothing about any <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> plane at <acronym title="Sacramento - International (Metropolitan) (SMF / KSMF), USA - California">SMF</acronym> with any problems other...
Jump to postWithout knowing what was going on in the cockpit, any comment is a guess at best. As you describe things it reads like a "low transition" to me which is definitely NOT a normal airliner procedure. An actual "two-stage rotation" is nothing more than a proscribed "hesitation" in the rotation rate unti...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jfklganyc" class="quote" target="_blank">jfklganyc</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Where the heck is the PILOT BASE for t...
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Jump to postOn MD90, the additional vertical stabilizer area provides added directional stability during single-engine ops. ex-QQ planes had V2500 engines with 29,500+ lbs of thrust according to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>'s OpMan when I flew it (last year in <acronym title="American A...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aklrno" class="quote" target="_blank">aklrno</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>n the United States PAR are used mostly by The...
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