Also in the annals of railroad braking: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/l ... -1.7180715

To expand a bit on your teeny text I have 2 words: SUBWAY TRAINS. Unlike freight trains, they're already electric. And also unlike freight trains, they spend a very large portion of their operational time accelerating and decelerating (or accelerating toward the rear if you're a physics major). And...

And in the plane that I flew, if I had to go around for every bounce I would still be on the pattern trying to land.

o/~ You must always go around...

"Technical accuracy" means they have the same model of plane in each shot and stuff. It's a low bar

Conversely, I wonder if this qualifies as an incident? Maybe not?

I don't see why it wouldn't; other cases of descending off-course have been. Still hasn't turned up on AVH though...

It’s not missing. It’s right there in the blue section. I re-traced the plots and re-shuffled (including bringing up the wind plots that were in the next page) to have a longitudinal section in red (thrust, long acc, headwind and airspeed) and a vertical section in blue (control column, normal acc,...

The sudden increase in density altitude doesn't have to directly cause you to drop 100 feet; it just has to cause you to stall, which is quite plausible. (1) if we suppose for the moment that the stack cloud was around 50C, that's a 15/13 increase in absolute temperature and thus (from the ideal gas...

That plot is a lot more readable! Too bad it's missing the normal acceleration trace though, that one matters.

By the magic of topic drift.

The only possible reason a headset would be preferable to a HUD is that it's cheaper to get and install. Given what these things cost, and how much more Officially Certificated IFR Paperworked ones will be, that doesn't seem like a winner. also everyone seems to forget that this technology became av...

Was playing a bit with Chat GPT yesterday. I asked for the sequence of notes for The Star-Spangled Banner.

Sounds about normal

I don't know if you can inhibit the bank angle alarm, because it didn't sound (which if the alarm was functioning it would have done at 35 degrees of bank).

It was chanting "bank angle" though. (And why was that audible in the cabin?)

3-way rail crashes aren't that uncommon, unfortunately. Something about how having track reduces the degrees of freedom for maneuvering...

Maybe the airport has a Checker Board. We wouldn't be able to see it in the video.

I don't come here anywhere often enough to participate in this kind of argument. What I originally meant to say was that the crash didn't look like the well-known maneuver we often refer to as "SSCDD", but rather like an ordinary or garden-variety roll that for some reason (I guessed inabi...

I do not believe the captain, based on a somatogravic illusion, ordered the first officer to nose over, and that the first officer blindly complied (or complied, because he also felt the somatogravic illusion). I know it’s total, ass-hat, outsider speculation, but I’m thinking that a nose down inpu...

The plane came in from elsewhere an hour or so before, so it hadn't even been sitting overnight.

Shimmy? Maybe... no idea what that would feel like but I would think it would be more side-to-side than up-and-down.

anyway, not going to find out...

I think the question is whether they will be better or worse at manufacturing emergencies than humans? AF011 and AF447 come to mind...

Gabriel and I have gone back and forth on this at length. The only thing that's clear is that they'll manufacture different emergencies.

I did a while back. The ground air conditioning is abnormally loud, or was on that flight; otherwise not much to report. Did not check the lav, though.

This is not_me, but could have been. I've done exactly that many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjjBScQ4do

Most planes if you try that you'll float right off the end of the runway...

(how is this off-topic?)

Once again a vid not a photo, but it contains a lot of great photos (some "never before seen" I think) of one of our favorite aeroplanies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ste6vsxnx6U The photos showing it spinning after the crash are definitely not easily found, but I'm pretty sure I've s...

The other day on a flight out of DEN, towards the end of the takeoff roll significant vibrations developed, at a rate plausibly consistent with wheel speed. I figured we'd blown a tire and half expected to return, but apparently not. A flat spot is sufficient to produce such behavior, I know, but......

If I find myself in a 737MAX, I jump out IMMEDIATELY.

You should wait for the exit door plug to fall out before trying to jump through it. Otherwise you might injure yourself.

Just so I’m not super stupid- the guy was NAVIGATING with the iPad…not just using it as a lightweight Jeppsen binder…Correct? Apparently. But there seem to be a lot more issues as well, e.g. he was also apparently unable to fly the approach according to the plates, or even to follow vectors. Nor is...

It is much more complicated than that. For now I will just say that "stalling one wing" almost never happens, and severe degradation of lateral-directional handling qualities (which is more than just "inadequate roll authority" as it also involves adverse yaw, adverse roll, and ...