Re: Leeham: NBA single aisle 2023/24 launch EIS 2028

When is the smart money going to call a spade a spade.

Haven’t we heard this failed strategy over and over, sonic cruiser, 787, Max, 77X, when have they been able to deliver a project t like this even close to what they projected.

2028 is not believable in my view.

Re: Hong Kong moves closer to opening third runway

New rapid exits, taxiways, lights etc to meet the new design, I also understand they plan educate and repaint before reopening each runway

Re: Qantas A330-200s - BNE - LAX - Lack of Crew Rest Areas

Is that 242t weight actually confirmed? I know they bumped up the MTOW but never seen to what weight. QF’s newest A332s predate the first 242t A332 by several years, and I’m not sure if the 242t MTOW is retrofittable. I was under the impression they were going to 238t (previous high before 242t). C...

Re: Hong Kong moves closer to opening third runway

leader1 wrote:

Aren’t they closing one of the other runways for maintenance? So it will still be a two runway airport for a while.

Re: Qantas A330-200s - BNE - LAX - Lack of Crew Rest Areas

These 332 are ex Jetstar and were repurposed to transcon duties. Hence no crew rest. Some are. Some were ordered by Qantas, went to Jetstar then back. Think some never went to Jetstar. But the 333s which were only ever Qantas also don't have a crew rest, just a curtain around a few pairs (not quads...

Re: Qantas A330-200s - BNE - LAX - Lack of Crew Rest Areas

They used to use the 332 transpacific after the 743 was retired, I guess they have been reconfigured a number of times since

Re: Mike Tyson Punches Passenger on JetBlue Flight

WayexTDI wrote:

I honestly hope Mike Tyson won't be charged for battery: the dude did provoke him over and over.

WayexTDI wrote:

What do you do when the guy won't stop bothering you, even after you repeatedly asked?

Re: airplane gliding

I think I need to gather data to validate your opinion

Re: Marana-Bound: Barely-Used Private Boeing 747-8 Heads To The Desert

Nothing I can see about cargo doors or reinforcements for elevator mentioned by someone else. Maybe they can do a “beam me up Scotty”. This is one of the previous threads that g talks about the cargo door on it, the controller.com listing had that info in it https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopi...

Re: airplane gliding

At what speed ? In what configuration?

Sounds like something I should try if I have some spare time in the sim

Re: Marana-Bound: Barely-Used Private Boeing 747-8 Heads To The Desert

BTW at one stage this was discussed on here last year, and they had in the advertising that it had a main deck cargo door, anyone catch a photo or it ?

Re: Problem with FR24 ?

From United's website: "UA 939: Members of your crew have worked the maximum number of hours allowed by the FAA, and we need to assign your flight new crew members. We will be stopping in Newark to get your flight a new crew. We know this wasn't a part of travel plans, and we appreciate your p...

Re: Marana-Bound: Barely-Used Private Boeing 747-8 Heads To The Desert

But the Bank of Utah is a US Company. If it is owned by the Bank of Utah, then they can register it. The certificate of registration is not a certificate of title, it does not suggest ownership. To find out who owns the aircraft you will need to pay $20 and search the international registry https:/...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3174696/china-eastern-flight-mu5375-early-report-deadly-crash-unlikely?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3174696 They are lowering expectations already.... My guess is we will have to wait at least year to know anything, even t...

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

It’s not complicated, federal overrules local. The mask mandate cannot (and will not) be enforced at PHL. I read the order in the entirety, in it she was suggesting this should be a state level requirement not federal. The process to make it federal requirement would have entailed a month of public...

Re: Marana-Bound: Barely-Used Private Boeing 747-8 Heads To The Desert

Supposedly owned by the Bank of Utah. Not sure if that is true. To be N/FAA registered it must be registered by a US citizen, that can either be a natural person or US company. The Bank of Utah is one of the organisations that offers trustee services for foreign persons or companies to legally regi...

Re: Cost Per Seat Mile

I see much information about airline cost per seat mile on line and in the forum. However, I am interested to know if these numbers assume any freight and allocate and cost to the freight.? On a typical flight from ORD to LAX how much paid freight is generally on board? What percentage of a major a...

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

I'm going to disagree on this being a good time to drop the mask mandate. A group of us after a successful negotiation went out to a pub a week ago (exactly as I type this). No mask wearing and the vendor bought free drinks for their employees, so they outnumbered we the buyers (who doesn't want fr...

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

Ah, but the flight crew was enforcing a mandate which was found to unlawful. So was the crew member therefore giving in an instruction for an action which in the current view of the courts has deemed to be the discretion of the passenger? I'm wondering that if this were a case before a judge, and i...

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

For all you armchair lawyers out there...With the ruling that the mask mandate was unlawful, what happens to those pending cases for individuals who were arrested for failing to follow crew instructions while refusing to wear a mask? On the one hand, they did break the law by following the crew ins...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

Yeah ignoring what is going on in the cockpit worked out well for OZ214 and EK521

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

When you have to pay for those tests yourself it quickly becomes a very big inconvience. Charging 100 USD per test is common. The rules where I am not allowed to leave home for 3 days following a trip until I get my day 3 negative PCR test result back. So I often do pay for that test to get my free...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

My still stands though, it’s not often where you will encounter a SID, departure profile, etc where climb performance critical. If it is, I am positive is well covered in your company ops bulletins, charts, and well brief prior to pushing. We use the same procedures everywhere regardless. I’ve seen...

Re: CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

This will be interesting to see how applied. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/cdc-mask-mandate-ruling/index.html "A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods. US District Judge Kathryn Kimball ...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

But I think you are definitely reaching here considering that majority of wide body aircraft even when heavy operate in many places where climb performance isn’t necessarily critical to a point where where maintaining pitch to the 1/2 on the dot. You would be surprised, most operators require the u...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

Jep, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5. Not 1.5, not 3.5, not 5.5 and so on. As usual, you are taking a very specific example where your argument fits and ignore that we were talking about a super normal, super standard all engine departure where it would be a miracle, that specific pitch needed for that day, ...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

And Zeke, sorry, but nobody flies to 1/2 degree of pitch accuracy. Simply because most aircraft don’t show a resolution on the horizon useful for flying it with 1/2 degree accuracy. Any A320/A330 will have demonstrated that skill when engine out, the target pitch attitude is 12.5 deg, the PFD pitch...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

The crew did nothing wrong, this was unknown hence the reason for the notice to all operators. FDs are specifically certified to be reliable in that phase of flight for a LVO takeoff or a rejected landing off a Cat 3 approach. You have no business saying crew should ignore FDs, with these large airc...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

This is not an issue with an airlines SOP nor an issue with the pilots, hence the reason this was sent out to all 787/777 operators. I did not have a go at Boeing, I challenged the credibility of someone saying that FDs should not be used for takeoff. You said “ regardless of automation config, one ...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

I don’t see how personal reference is relevant when the recent EK incident was not in LVO conditions. Hence my comment about normal takeoff sequences. It doesn’t matter, the training is to revert to the PFD and FD straight away, the technique is the sane day,night, LVO. Their company requirement al...

Re: Pilots of 777s and 787s warned over pitch-guidance mode slip before take-off

Aaron747 wrote:

Fair enough - but task saturated or not, basic airmanship should also ensure that regardless of automation config, one does not follow the flight director to the horizon in a normal takeoff sequence. Like, ever.

Re: Installing/ Uninstalling ETOPS On An Aircraft

Thanks for proving the point. ETOPS has everything to do with twins. Nope, the T in ETOPS does not mean twins, it used to some time ago, the rules were changed. ETOPS now means “extended operations”, it is no longer stands for “extended twin engine operations”. Under the new ETOPS rules a MD-11 and...

Re: Understanding Emergency Descent Altitudes