(2) In the case of individual dispensing units, to enable each user to make those determinations with respect to that person's oxygen supply and delivery; and Ah okay, I see your point. I thought that is why the flow indicator existed in some passenger oxygen systems. Why wouldn't they use "po...
Jump to postActually, there are more masks than Pax. I would guess about 25% more. Each row of three has 4 masks as an example. You have to remember that people move around the cabin during flight and might not be at their seats when an emergency takes place. (2) In the case of individual dispensing units, to e...
Jump to postSlick Willy should have just answered, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS and left it at that. And really, someones sexual encounters are not anybodies business except the consenting people involved. Trump? Once again it is a a question that is nobodies business except the consenting people involved. Seriously, ...
Jump to post7BOEING7 wrote: I can sum up production flight test in the following way: "People make money doing this?" "Why work for a living if you don't have to?" "Which toy do I get to play with today?" Ain't it the truth. Sit in a comfy chair, look out the window, monitor the i...
Jump to postNot absolutely sure what you are asking, but this thread may be helpful. https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/433331- ... keoff.html
More good stuff. https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/282945- ... itude.html
Clearly Aviation needs an APL (Acronym Protection Program). Incident investigation: "When you say you lost a TR, do you mean a thrust reverser failed to deploy or you misplaced a transformer rectifier"?
Jump to postANZ maintenance is in house. https://www.airnewzealand.com/engineeri ... aintenance
For code sharing, ANZ is a member of the STAR Alliance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Alliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A340#Specifications Engine thrust requirements are determined by aircraft weight. #3 requires the most amount of thrust per engine in an engine out emergency and it is always considered in the design. The A3...
Jump to postHere you go. https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/atos/air_carrier/ AD notes generally apply to the aircrafts engineering, manufacture and maintenance. The processes in regards to operations is regulated with 14 CFR Part 121 Air Carrier Certification. A carrier has to maintain an AOC (Air Operators...
Jump to postI think more than anything it's whatever is written into a carriers operations manual. The operations manual is sometimes written by people that are not to sharp and the the FAA approves it and then you are stuck unless someone revises the operations manual. There is no valid reason an aircraft can'...
Jump to postKind of of a romanticized dissertation Me thinks. You could probably write something just as interesting about janitors or garbage collectors or meter readers. Really, pilots aren't that much different than most folks. Flight test is pretty mundane stuff, really. Hours of hard work by a professional...
Jump to postNot sure of exact number of in house pilots Boeing Commercial Airplanes has but generally FTE will have a pilots pool of more experienced pilots than production. The number of pilots in the FTE pool will vary depending on test requirements. If we are validation testing a new model there will be up t...
Jump to postTrue, but it only takes one person in distress to declare an emergency and potentially require a landing at the nearest airport.
Jump to postB-777? The best aircraft Boeing has ever made. Probably a better airplane than the B-787. Of course time will tell..................
Jump to postObsolescence killed the DC-10 and The TriStar. The market will be what kills the A-380 and 747-8I. It is just criminal that the F.A.A. certified the DC-10. The biggest contributing factor to the crash at O'Hare wasn't really the fact that the pylon ripped the hydraulic lines out of the L.E. when it ...
Jump to postAlso, experimenting with bare metal on some planes wouldn't be bad. Say,finding ways for it to be low cost to maintain so you save money on fuel. Airplane used to be pretty much polished aluminum but I think the maintenance cost for keeping the aluminum polished was more expensive than just paintin...
Jump to postAeroNet Air Service. An airlines is certainly a great way to turn a large fortune into a small fortune.
Jump to postThe military UAV's already fly unmanned missions half way around the planet. Their loss rate is still excessively high. ( And not from being shot at ). https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/drone-crashes/database/ Oh, O.K. Must be why we're nowhere near using that technology for hauling ...
Jump to postDid a ton of Livery changes in the 80's. A plane came in and the interior is stripped out of it and sent to the interior shop for livery change/refurb while maintenance, repaint and carrier specific Engineering Orders are performed in the hanger. Seats, galleys, sidewalls, ceiling panels etc were ge...
Jump to postI suspect the next advancement would be improved software and redundancies such that single pilot operation becomes feasible and safe for many occasions, airlines would eat up the potential crew cost savings and less space allocated towards the cockpit == more space allocated to revenue generating ...
Jump to postFolding wing tips were on option on the B-777 at enter to service In 1995. No operator yet have bought the option most likely because of the weight penalty. Tobarless tugs capable of towing an aircraft to the runway threshold are already in common use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nopHgXojb8
Jump to postI think you are missing the point. The aircraft is inspected by shop and inspection and is not released to the flight crew until it is serviced/inspected and verified as airworthy. Go into any airlines records and you will see how this is set up in a fail safe manner to insure only an airworthy air...
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Jump to postI think you are missing the point. The aircraft is inspected by shop and inspection and is not released to the flight crew until it is serviced/inspected and verified as airworthy. Go into any airlines records and you will see how this is set up in a fail safe manner to insure only an airworthy airc...
Jump to postgeorge77300 wrote:Interesting of the two comments above one thinks front is bigger and the other rear is bigger. I have no idea myself but thought interesting.
Great link. On the B787 you would never even know there are 2 crew rest. One in the overhead at door one and one in the overhead at door 4. The entry doors for both just look like a part of the galley in that area. Completely non discrete.
Jump to postIf your aircraft has a range of 7240 Nautical miles, as Google suggests, even with the additional fuel burn because of weight, it might be cheaper to fuel for the round trip in Paris. The other consideration is the cost of turning the aircraft at your destination. For that you should have someone on...
Jump to postWith Large aircraft AMT's will perform required servicing and do a pre-flight inspection prior to flight. So for the flight crew, a walk around is somewhat redundant as the aircraft has already been verified as airworthy and released for flight. Sometimes the F/O or F/E will do a walk around and oth...
Jump to postI did some some Internet math and a Tesla model S has a 100 KWh battery that's good for about 325 miles. In BTU's that's about the same amount of energy as 3 gallons of gasoline or 345,000 BTU's. So on the same amount of energy, The Tesla goes about 3 times as far as a gasoline powered car. The Down...
Jump to postWith the 1 in 43 weight penalty, doing it with current battery technology is not doable. If inexpensive, clean, safe and dependable small nuclear reactors were developed, It would probably be very doable. Maybe someone will figure out that Tesla wasn't so crazy after all and invent an efficient way ...
Jump to postA time came where we had to put Molykote G on the part span abutments on return to home base, it was a battle to stop the fan especially in stiff breezes.. Ya, the wind can spin a fan fairly fast. We would just get up there and just kinda choke the spinner until the fan came to a stop. You only tri...
Jump to postA very good place to start is the DC8's STC's And SSTC's . https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/27/00-24749/airworthiness-directives-mcdonnell-douglas-model-dc-8-series-airplanes The answer is most likely there but will require some digging. As far as adding a main deck cargo door many ...
Jump to postStrobes and the red and green nav lights are in the shadow of the end of the wing and usually not visible inside the aircraft.
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