[*] the horrible headphones that ran on compressed air (?) or whatever it was LOL. There were a pair of regular electric speakers in your armrest, inside the holes where you connected the "pneumatic headphones". The plastic tubes just guided the sound from the speakers to your ears.Very much as if ...

Let L-410 in Russia crashed shortly before landing . (3) it wasn't an uncommanded reverse at all but the pilots did it on purpose, presumably to try to clear the developing condition (in which case wtf? but it's certainly plausible); or (4) the pilots issued some other prop pitch command and the wr...

Maybe it collided with a Gloster Meteor.

The pilots are secretly cats. You never see any of them in the video, do you?

Things I don't miss: routinely sitting in a holding pattern for 15-20+ minutes upon arrival while awaiting a landing slot the horrible headphones that ran on compressed air (?) or whatever it was second-hand cigarette smoke everywhere 70s government-issue airport decor checking in at the main desk a...

You can't land a 747 at any appreciable roll angle anyway; the crosswind landing procedure is to land sideways and the gear's built to handle it. There's a thread about this here somewhere, unless it was on the old site...

Also apparently this week another Tesla ploughed while on autopilot.

That airspeed profile looks an awful lot like the one from the Lubbock FedEx crash in the other thread...

I am not going to declare a cowboy monkey improvisation foul (and associated public physical punishment) for continuing.

The report did

Yes; the existing eight engines add up to less than two of those PW4077s.

No-flaps approaches have different reference speeds, different braking requirements, etc. If you haven't briefed this (which you won't have), unless there's some reason to the contrary, like a mess of cautions about hydraulics, you should go around and do the proper preparation. Like this: http://av...

Wait, how can they legally operate without signals?

Flying in the wake turbulence of the next goose up reduces fuel burn.

Also it seems they ploughed in sideways, which is rather curious. Most of the scenarios I can think of that would lead to this involve an upset and tumble first (apparently not) or don't result in wings-almost-level. Well, you never know... The LET of the other thread lost control and did a 360 bar...

From a pure thrust perspective you could probably get away with two, although there are a number of reasons not to. (e.g. rudder authority) However, moving to four seems necessary to get most of the touted advantages. If nothing else, to get the efficiency improvements you want a high-bypass design ...

Let L-410 in Russia crashed shortly before landing . So that one's interesting... according to today's update the event began 14 seconds before the command to enter reverse. And, given that the right-side propeller was going faster but the plane was yawing to the right, this suggests that the prop ...

Today the CBC's reporting that the operator certificate's been pulled. A few days ago they were also saying that it took the pax 30 minutes to get the exit door open, which if true raises quite a few eyebrows. Also it seems they ploughed in sideways, which is rather curious. Most of the scenarios I ...

I love how the failure also disabled the "backup" power...

I... do not follow this line of reasoning at all...

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b1fa4f6&opt=0

I agree with Gabriel: it's only a matter of time before enough swiss cheese lines up and something serious happens.

It strikes me as insane to not have a backup horizon in a plane that one is obviously using for primary transportation in all weather conditions. That said, I really didn't like the video. I thought it didn't organize its points well and it didn't concentrate on the right ones. Seems to me the key p...

Arguments like these are (I originally wrote "why", but it's actually more like "how") causality is such a slippery subject when examined closely. Besides, the pilot actions can't be taken as the root cause; clearly the pilots were set up to fail by having nothing on file for what to do if the spoil...

*I don't think that "unusual" alone conveys the meaning of " insólito " -even if it is the correct translation according to Them Googles-. I think it is more like a combination of unusual(exceptional?), strange and unexpected. For example: Evanie, Brianie, BBie and ATLCrewboyie agreeing with you at...

I wonder if blind folks are more or less resistant to disorientation in IMC.

Still, so much WTF. Beginning with: given that the airport was in the middle of a scheduled closing known in advance for months, how did dispatch let them go? And continuing with: if by "bingo" he mean "need to divert", why didn't he just bloody well divert? Sure maybe it looks bad, but then, so doe...