It 1981, PA’s future already didn’t look great, on the other hand, no one knew where PI was going. PI looked like a little southern puddle jumper. They became a profitable, growing airline right until Allegheny bought them and poof! Several friends left EA when I was there, full of optimism of Piedm...
Jump to postThe Global 7500 and GLF650 have too wide a span, KASE has a plan to replace the runway a bit west to allow more wing clearances permitting larger planes.
Jump to postWell, at M.80, 450-460 TAS, so about 340 on the ground speed.
Jump to postThey still have engineers, the upgrade such as it was, was to avionics—primitive FMS, RVSM, 8.33 comms. IIRC, the upgrades got caught up in maintaining COTS while also military req’ts and budgets.
Jump to postIt’s about budgets, period. A friend who’s a senior officer asked about a budget proposal, “what war plan can be executed with out XXX?” Answer, “it’s about budgets, not war plans or capabilities”.
Jump to postJust remember a “derate” is like putting a different thrust engine rating on the plane, “Reduced” is the engine’s thrust rating reduced due to conditions, but full rated thrust is there.
Jump to postThe engines mounted above the wingbox helps hide the fan blades and reduce the IR heat signature from below. But it doesn’t seem like it would help avoid detection from airborne radars, i.e. an AWACS or Mig-31. The F-117 had the engines directly behind the intakes. Intake mesh angled correctly like...
Jump to postHeck, the Euros are still protecting Polanski Right, because we’re just one homogeneous entity, like the Borg. :sarcastic: He’s pretty much had free rein traveling around Europe despite being a wanted fugitive from justice. Protected by several courts, I’d say you’re the Borg, if the shoe fits.
Jump to postMy understanding is that it's driven by operational costs and mission demand. The demand for KC-10 missions is lower and the operational cost higher, than those for the KC-135. Also the KC-135 is in the groove where there is strong understanding of how to mitigate aging in terms of fatigue and corr...
Jump to postAnother NTT G7500 just beat that flying time record, KOAK-VHHH, 15.6 hours
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EJA ... /KOAK/VHHH
Cessna 195 on floats—I had the “bug” earlier, but a couple of flights at 11 sealed the deal. Solo’d before I had driver’s license on my 16th birthday. The planes that taught me flying were the F-100 and Citation I & II. if you didn’t fly the Hun every moment, it could and would bite back. The Ci...
Jump to postI’d argue the Russian problem is a lot deeper than so-called “shock therapy”. There was zero Russian experience with market economics, democratic self-government to build on, so connected ex-communists stole everything. Yeltsin allowed or facilitated it because that’s all he and the government knew....
Jump to postThat, I don’t know, but I’ll see if I can find out for you.
Jump to postThose fixes are called path terminators in ARINC database coding. Think “path to a termination point. CF is a course to a fix, where the path ends.
https://www.icao.int/safety/pbn/Seminar ... 07/D.3.pdf
NATO should have been dissolved 30 years ago, it's pointless doing it now, but if it had gone when it's time was over, we would IMO be living in a much safer world today. Russia could easily have been a benign neighbour, many people believed this. Plenty of far more intelligent and knowledgeable pe...
Jump to postThere’s high probability as many, perhaps more, are lost in non-combat flight. The first years of Red Flag, TAC was losing one plane per exercise. I’ve lost 7 friends in non-combat training accidents.
Jump to postNow you're being an idiot, the end of the cold war was wasted, it was the perfect opportunity for the world to disarm, we screwed that up. There is absolutely no reason to suggest Russia would have tried to expand if NATO didn't exist. An EU on friendly terms with Russia would be a far better outco...
Jump to postLet's say he makes this go away. Wasn't he still great friends with Epstein, over many years, even after he was convicted ? Pretty much everyone except Melinda Gates was friends with Epstein. Is it really so hard to believe that trafficking young women is extremely common? I am not even totally sur...
Jump to postAnd, it’s not like TRANSCOM doesn’t charter for the USG. There’s a huge amount of charter everyday.
Jump to postExcept CRAF freighters don’t have roll-on, roll-off capability as the C-5 and C-17 do. Try driving a tank, a Mark V boat, or multiple helicopters on a 747. Try airdrop in the 747. Better yet, try ordering civilian pilots to fly into hostile environs or known threat areas. At that point you're reduc...
Jump to postYes, but the records are retained, so a career could be monitored. The flight, at one point prior to departure, might have been re-routed south to avoid high radiation levels. Cruise level was F410 to start, crossing the polar region at F450-470.
Jump to postThe USAF doesn’t need transport aircraft at all really. It’s much cheaper for Transcom to contract out cargo to civilian airliners. Except CRAF freighters don’t have roll-on, roll-off capability as the C-5 and C-17 do. Try driving a tank, a Mark V boat, or multiple helicopters on a 747. Try airdrop...
Jump to postCarry DHL cargo! I have a misdelivered DHL package they’d been threatening to deliver for a week. It was delivered, by their picture, in some other town.
Jump to postThose A300 ops were under the old pre-ETOPS ICAO 90 minute rule.
http://www.737ng.co.uk/AIRBUS%20ETOPS%20Guide.pdf
Caryjack wrote:Fractional flight, one that selects rules from different regulatory groups to form a legally viable package?
Aesma wrote:What is a "solar radiation mitigation program" ?
a320fan wrote:What does fractional flight mean?
135 would have to comply with ETOPS after 180 minutes, but NTT might have to anyway.
Jump to postNot by regulation, but included in the polar ops plan. An airline has more options to “bail out” a diversion into some godforsaken northern divert base, but NTT wanted on their first such trip to have ready options.
Jump to post4 pilots, 4 hour turns, double berth in the crew rest. Not sure how they scheduled F/As. Polar Ops approved including solar radiation mitigation program, “rescue” planes in Norway and AK, in the event of diversion, polar survival kits on board. FOB at the last ETP (AK/ HI) would have had them landin...
Jump to postLots of discussion of EU to Hawaii service. It looks like Net Jets just did what might be the longest fractional flight—ZRH to KOA (Kona); 15.0 hours passed 170 nautical south of the pole.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N17 ... /LSZH/PHKO
Obviously we'll cut all the foreign aid, sorry Haiti, but that's only going to net $6.4b/yr. Let's go to food stamps and farm subsidies next. Can all of them, farms will fail, people will go hungry and possibly die, and we'll potentially cause a little international agricultural crisis as we clean ...
Jump to postBut somehow a majority of american voters keep insisting this won’t work in their particular society, even though it works elsewhere. American exceptionalism at it’s most naive and darkest. o Because criminals would know that all of their potential victims are unarmed. Where as now there are potent...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postWhy you can't do that on an airplane is mind boggling. Maybe what can come out of this is a dot on a map on a screen that says "you are HERE, now go HERE" That would make too much sense in an aviation industry plagued by pilots who think they are (or should be) god and c-suite managers wh...
Jump to postWith digital clearances that can be entered and executed by the crew, we need to enable datalink taxi clearances that then are highlighted in the MAP display. We, in Globals and Challengers had an expanded taxi chart with ownship—just add the means to overlay the taxi route. I’d also agree the clear...
Jump to postThe debt ceiling is a tool Congress came up with because it creates a problem that Congress can blame on the president, who needs the solution that only Congress can provide. Congress gets to beat the president and then be seen as the savior, all while extracting concessions. The interesting thing ...
Jump to postBut that would contradict the JonNYC tweets from a passenger who said that the plane accelerated to get off the runaway. Since there apparently will be no CVR, they can tell any story they want. Perfect. If I'm the FO, however, and it seemed to me like the leak to Forbes was designed by the airline...
Jump to postSimply cutting spending will do zero to the debt. We need income. Taxes. But, for some reason, when taxation comes up, Republicans think we don't need taxes but we can just spend, spend, spend especially for the military. THAT is where cuts need to start. Cutting 500 low level IRS employees will no...
Jump to postConsidering the wet winter weather, I’d think icing, airframe or eng8ne, might be a factor—it’d explain the slow climb. Icing would also explain why he didn’t want to climb above 5,000’. Belay that, here’s a report that the pilot reporting losing oil pressure at 1725 LT https://www.msn.com/en-us/tra...
Jump to postYes’m austerity isn’t necessarily the answer, but reforming 90 year old programs can be the answer. We’re not gonna starve because Big Sugar and Big Corn don’t get their accustomed subsidies. Besides, discretionary spending isn’t the looming problem—SSA and Medicare are and it has shouted from the r...
Jump to postairlineworker wrote:Too many wasted years to bring this aircraft to market. Kind of surprised by delay after delay, Japanese companies are careful not to over promise and plan well for production. Not this time. Embraer owns the 70+ seat market.
Again, why is Baldwin being treated different from Joe Nobody in middle America who didn't know the gun was loaded and gets a slap on the wrist? Those Joe Nobodys aren't on a movie set where full time people get paid to manage the firearms and ammo. I wouldn’t bet Joe Nobody is getting his wrist sl...
Jump to postLook at the tax trends after 2020, when revenue really took off after all the tax changes worked thru the economy. It’s not just one year.
The true “tax” burden government imposes is the spending, not taxes. We need spendingbto decline as a percentage of GDP.
Even acknowledging all this, though, the article is complementary of the KC-46 from all perspectives, including boomers. It has a significant flaw in the RVS and that is not disputed by anyone. But overall, the aircraft is a major improvement. Boeing disputed that the RVS was flawed for years. But ...
Jump to postIncident refuelling an F15 Old news https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/11/03/kc-46-tankers-boom-breaks-dents-plane-while-refueling-fighter-jet/ I assume the F-15 was in a position to divert You (almost) never do “tank or swim”. There’s always a divert. The HH-60s do, or did, hav...
Jump to postAs I said what's needed is a golden rule not a debt ceiling. It would be impossible to pass a gigantic tax cut in these circumstances if you don't cut a lot of spending to account for it. Simply cutting spending will do zero to the debt. We need income. Taxes. But, for some reason, when taxation co...
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