A 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...
Jump to postThere is no FAR limit for flight attendants for duty time unlike the pilots The pilots do have a limit on duty time flight time and minimum rest time Unfortunately the only thing the flight attendants got was a rule for minimum rest time. All of their other limits on duty time etc are contractual an...
Jump to postRest time at my company is 10hrs while on the road and 12hrs at home between trips. Speaking to the last flight in / first flight out, we have what are called "stand-ups" or "continuous duty days". That means that when working the last in/first out, the break may be longer than ...
Jump to postI miss flying the 1900 immensely. If I could own an aircraft that’s the one I’d want to own. Nothing like crossing overhead entering the 1500ft pattern riding the barberpole and chop the power to idle using your forearm with your index finger on the gear warning override and props full forward turni...
Jump to postThe rule uses the term “rest period” and “duty period” If you’re not on duty you are in a rest period. That rest period has to be a minimum of 10 hours now, where before it could be as short as 8 hours. The 10 hours brings the minimum flight attendant rest period in line with the pilots whose rest p...
Jump to postIt was an essential air service route, so landing and departing even though no passengers deplaned or boarded counted as a completion for the airline to get paid on the EAS contract. It was routine to get a cruise clearance to the next airport before landing, we were landing at ABC airport and the D...
Jump to postTampa is going to reopen tomorrow (Friday) at 10am. No major damage it doesn't seem like. https://news.tampaairport.com/tampa-international-airport-to-resume-operations-at-10-am-friday/ I'm surprised about how quick it can re-open. While the physical damage may not be great, what about the workers?...
Jump to postAre there any jet engines that can be started with an electric starter? I guess 787 engines are electric start and I guess the FJ44 engines When the FJ44 engine was mentioned in the previous post, that brought to mind one conversation I had with a corporate pilot about the citationjet he flew as he ...
Jump to postAt first I thought a PC-24 was a twin engine PC-12 but I guess not Having no idea what avionics are on a PC-24 I would imagine that the processes that take the longest to accomplish would be aligning the AHRS or whatever ADIRU type navigation sensor is installed, programming the flight management sy...
Jump to postEmbry probably wants to train you their way instead of you spending money on instrument training and you’ll still have to spend money at Embry taking their instrument course While it is laudable to have a final destination like Delta in mind, nothing wrong with that, you should keep an open mind so ...
Jump to postI saw a movie today with Orson Welles (The Lost Airplane? or some title like that) from 1961. Great movie btw! My question is they said that they were 10 miles up in the air, and 22,000 feet. Could that be accurate? Cause if it was, then the distance would be, from the ground to air, just about the...
Jump to post22,000feet would read 3.6DME if you flew directly over a DME transmitter located at sea level.
Jump to postLAX uses LUAW for basically all departures. This is to increase runway usage with IFR spacing. Can you explain what all that means? Line up and wait. Planes taxi onto the runway and hold until the runway is clear, then they take off. Not when the runway is clear... They hold until issued a takeoff ...
Jump to postThanks for posting the link to the training materials…. I have never flown a DC-3. But I have flown a 1900 which is a “modern” turboprop (ok who am I kidding… an obsolete turboprop) that does not have any hydraulically actuated controls like a DC-3 from what I can gather from perusing the limitation...
Jump to postI used to be a max reverse minimum brakes kind of guy. A few times I could land and taxi to the gate without the brake temps exceeding 50c. the pilots got an operations bulletin saying brake temps after landing were not high enough causing excessive brake wear and early brake replacements. So now I’...
Jump to postI think the only thing that stops better would be an arrested landing using arresting gear.
Although bringing a 10000ton ship from 31kts to a stop in 1500ft/450m comes close.
Did you read battlegroup’s response to the last time you asked this question and refer to the TCDS that was given in that response? https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1475671#p23426113 https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgMakeModel.nsf/0/c9a6ce3a43c7556a86258336...
Jump to postPretty big jump from when mesa pay was 1st year FO $18 and 1st year CA $26.
Jump to postIt’s perfectly valid to do “nothing” and let MED autobrake do everything. When we run the performance numbers for landing we get the runway landing distance for the various autobrake settings. At the airports where we use MED autobrake normally, the performance numbers typically come back with the r...
Jump to postEvery recurrent at my operator, we have to demonstrate 3 landings and 6 approaches, so that means we will go around 3 times. The three landings come off a normal ILS, single engine full approach and landing with an inop autopilot and a Cat III auto land. Of the 3 go arounds, two are late go arounds ...
Jump to postEdit: never mind I just saw the airportviewer screenshot. When I am at the airport just before push back I check airportviewer.com to see what the lineup is like waiting for takeoff It’s saved me tons of fuel whether to taxi single engine or dual engine. That ways it’s not a surprise when you taxi o...
Jump to postI do warn the pax before landing in BUR/SNA that it’s not going to be a “smooth/greaser” landing. It’s definitely get the wheels down firmly, FO says “SPOILERS”, I respond “MANUAL BRAKES” and override the MED auto brakes immediately by applying the brakes with the rudder pedals while simultaneously ...
Jump to postOur A320 airline uses MED autobrake settings regularly landing on certain runways, like LGA, MSY, BUR, SNA. For BUR/SNA once the aircraft touches down, we override the auto brakes and apply manual braking along with max reverse. Since the auto brake targets a specific deceleration rate, any applicat...
Jump to postI had over 600 1:500 Herpas, I couldn’t find any buyers for them so they all went to the landfill as trash. I had spent several thousands of dollars for them over 20 years ago.
Jump to postThey eventually stretched the CRJ-200 from 50 pax to 100 pax with the CRJ-1000.
The EMB-145 - was an old turboprop design already stretched, with the prop engines removed and jet engines bolted on, so all they could do was shrink it to 37-seats with the EMB-135.
A few more interesting points: --10% increase in ASM but 33.3% increase in fleet (135 June 2019, 180 June 2022). --Fuel consumed is only up 6.1% since 2019 but total fuel cost is up $300M (110%). --Utilization is down 2.1 hours per day sine 2019 (16%). I'm wondering if there is a tipping point for ...
Jump to postThe two transponders talk to each other to coordinate the RA. This becomes a problem at airports like DEN where some airlines turn their transponders to TA only. When the two planes get vectors to final, one transponder tells the other transponder it’s not going to move because it’s TA only so the o...
Jump to postBrownsville is much the same. Different tack, US Military planes cannot cross the border without the foreign nation’s (Mexico, here) diplomatic clearance. Yuma, AZ approach had me in a military plane vectored toward Mexico, I queried about it and the controller said he was aware of it and would tur...
Jump to postIt’s was over several decades ago but for a high school project I wanted to do a documentary project on how an airport works I started with the airport aviation board explaining what I was looking for…. They set up access and gave me access to wherever I wanted to go and was able to photograph and v...
Jump to postThe info is blank and civil aircraft also fail the mode 4 / India check.
I believe military aircraft can also turn off their modes 12 and 4 and pretend that they’re a civil aircraft if they want to.
On the radar displays I’ve used, it’s not on the screen, you have to use the ball tab to scroll the cursor to the track symbology and tag it, then you see a data tag that contains the mode 1, mode 2, mode 3/A, and mode 4 of the transponder. Civilian aircraft will only have mode 3/A. Military aircraf...
Jump to postSince you’re looking at central Texas, TSTC also has a flight training program that leads to the same qualifications as Baylor or Texas A&M. While I haven’t checked pricing I’m pretty sure that TSTC is probably less expensive than Baylor or Texas a&m. What you’re looking for is a 4 year degr...
Jump to postIt depends on where you are and where you have the right to work
The path to becoming a pilot is different from the US to Canada to Europe or Australia.
Becoming an pilot is within the reach of anyone if you put effort into it.
Accelerometers on the aircraft align based on earth movement. At high latitudes, the angular rotation rotation of the earth is slower whereas as at the equator the angular rotation is faster. Same reason why they launch rockets near the equator to get into space, they use the faster rotation at the ...
Jump to postWhile not side by side. ORD used to before the whole runway reconfiguration do 14R 22R and 27R (present day 27L / present day 27R didn’t exist back then) triple simultaneous landings and depart 27L (present day 28R) and 22L simultaneously.
Jump to postCongrats at envoy. It’s always intimidating the very first flight of IOE. i remember my first IOE flight and while I was physically as pilot flying in the airplane, and it lasted all of 20 minutes, I was mentally still hanging on to the horizontal stab by fingernails. But by leg number 9 that day 12...
Jump to postWe had many kids start at 14, and get their private glider certificate at 16, and then go on to get their airplane add on at 17. They hung out on the field helping with the glider flight line during the summer and washed airplanes and lived breathed gliders and airplanes during the summer and the fa...
Jump to postThe boarding gate is always a scene of woe with people trying to sneak their carry on bag on the plane. As they approach to scan their boarding pass, they’re “politely” shunted off to the side like sheep to the slaughterhouse where they are “invited” to pay for their carry on bag at the “carry-on ba...
Jump to postUnless otherwise directed you turn the short way so when flying 360 you turn left to 270.
Jump to postHouston is like that departing 15s. They emphasize the right turn to 020 and if there’s any confusion they’ll say turn right the long way around to heading 020.
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