It's been quite some time since I've posted anything, though, surprisingly enough, I still drop by to lurk on occasion. I thought you guys might want to know that Al Weaver has passed.

Thread from PPrune:
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/651 ... eaver.html

R.I.P. Al.

News report file footage shows two MD-80's and one 757.

At least they're jets...

Gee. You'd think they wouldn't let him take off until they were sure he'd have the landing part figured out every time...

So what happened there? It seemed to be a good airplane til landing. And the fact that the equipment wasn't waiting would seem to indicate that nobody was expecting trouble.

Read again Giles, saying you're going to declare changes nothing, until you actually do. Maybe there in the great white north, but in the US, 7110.65T specifies: 10-1-1. EMERGENCY DETERMINATIONS a. An emergency can be either a Distress or an Urgency condition as defined in the “Pilot/Controller Glo...

Can anyone spot the obvious solution?

They need to stop being the Taliban and be nice people instead. Once everybody there is nice, the troops can leave. Pretty simple really...

When I heard about the fog and the 3 go-arounds before it was my instant thought who it was to force the landing in those unsuitable conditions. Of course you never know but I find it hard to believe it was the pilot ... Was the aircraft equipped with a CVR? It is hard to imagine a pilot with any c...

Briefly... The great big one is a "dragline". It has a bucket that's suspended from cables, open at the end, with a second cable that's 'drags' that bucket towards the machine. When loaded, the bucket is raised, the machine swings around, and the 'drag' cable is payed out, allowing the buc...

Here's some discussion, and some very good pictures of the aftermath: http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboa ... =2&gV=0&p=

An interesting point of view on that "fueling debate" thing: http://praxisfound.wordpress.com/2010/0 ... ss-at-jfk/

Perhaps you should boycott Vegemite in protest?

It really bothers her because the false targets confuse the kids...

Yes, I do believe that you endangered yourself, your children and other children in a indirect way. If another equation had come into the environment (persons entering the area, machinery malfunction etc) and things had gone pear shaped. You, I believe by your actions, would have been the main caus...

.......I'm thinking that a 'Control Tower' is a place of work.....therefore not a place for children to 'play' TDU Thunder, I've had my children, and other kids, occasionally sit in the operator's seat and take a few bucketfuls of dirt, under my direct supervision, at low throttle settings and well...

It says something (I'm not sure what), that he'd make his observations in this thread, rather than the one that everybody else is using...

There are also rules about sterile cockpits, no idle talk that is not essential to the task at hand at certain portions of a flight, and a segment of the flight where this is the case is indeed when talking to the tower. Isn't it the case that the tower must also be sterile when dealing with arrivi...

It doesn't matter what I think. That's a cop out. I'm not an FAA administrator and I'm only one vote in the court of public opinion. You're bothering to discuss the topic, as a respected member of this highly respected aviation safety forum on http://WWW.Internet.com , thus helping to shape aforeme...

3WE, do you think safety was compromised?

If so, how?

If not, then what makes this worthy of the incredible attention it's getting?

So if can sum up everyone's opinions on the matter, it appears that the new Gold standard in aviation professionalism and safety is: "As long as nobody gets hurt, what's the big deal?" I think to anybody that understands the nuts and bolts of an airport tower operation, from a safety stan...

No, I didn't change the question, I just added another question because the false alert depicted in the video looked like "real" enough information to me. While the first thing I thought of was the potential for a controller to shut somebody down while on takeoff, leading to a messy overru...

I suspect your next dream involved child labourers in Asia putting machine parts in boxes labled 'Boeing' The kiddies are too busy building iPods http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiEeeQNHkrOY As I've said before, we here in the US would do a lot better if, rather than our uni...

I'm not sure what you'd consider "real info". http://avstop.com/news_feb_2010/bostons_logan_airport_radar_puts_traveling_public_at_risk.htm http://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/dot/files/pdfdocs/WEB_ASDE-X_10-31-07.pdf The report Linked in the opening post also says, " Video obtained by Fox U...

Video:http://topics.myfoxboston.com/m/2915599 ... geid=64403

Is anybody else just the least bit bothered by the FAA guy, Mr. Davies, saying that the system is operating exactly as it should?

What if the pilots truly were dead-dog tired, and functioning like zombies, and even "drifted out of normal conciousness". How would you reconcile that with this? ...board member Robert Sumwalt blasted the crew for engaging in almost a steady stream of extraneous conversation during much ...

I'm impressed! It even has the hydraulic hoses to the backhoe.

I haven't spent much time on one of those recently, but if I'd kept a log book it'd probably show between 10 and 15 thousand hours on those machines.

Thanks.