Today read a comment on AvHeraldie that the engine pylons are designed to break and pivot up so that during a wheels-up landing, the fuel tank would be protected.

I imagine that was far from the most ridiculous comment on AvHeraldie today.

Oops, sorry. I forgot that I should not post here because you guys don't need my detailed descriptions.

Stop teasing.

As a general rule, planes with 3 or more engines have a flight engineer,

I don't know that the number of engines had as much to do with it as the fact that these were (as a general rule) older airplanes in which engineers were commonplace regardless of the number of engines, but carry on.

But since you (plural, according to you) don't need my detailed description, I'll carry on.

Carry on? You?

I know the NTSB has said the #1 engine departed during the takeoff sequence, but all I see there is a blurry image showing about 2/3 of the right side of the plane and, I think, the tail with its engine. What am I missing? And no, "The #1 engine" is not an acceptable response. :lol: You c...

A little "analysis": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3lXl9yfISM

F/O Windbag couldn't wait, could he?

FCOMs are not type- and engine-specific....Holy f***! I still can’t recite the procedure for starting a fuel-injected 172…crazy stuff like electric fuel pumps and fuel flow and cranking it full lean. Carbureted: Prime, full rich, crack throttle, crank… What's interesting is that it appears Capt Sto...

I had to google what's NAP (talk about not being the best at getting things from the context).

And yet, you felt qualified to talk about it. Classic Gabriel...

That is not what he is saying. Read again: Europe = theatre specific. see noise abatement procedures for the various airports. A320 FCOM (or any other planes FCOM, OM, TM etc.) doesn't apply since it's not engine or type specific . Entirely possible, but that is hardly clear from his post since the...

FCOMs are not type- and engine-specific....Holy f***!

Do you occasionally use full reverse thrust on the ‘320?

Yes.

Congratulations and thank you for your datapoint. I have heard it, and read it.

Congratulations to you for listening to and reading yourself.

I have mixed feelings about this one, and I'd really like to hear the opinion of a pro pilot that operates in the US in airports arrival and departures tightly packed together, on intersecting runways like BOS or SFO, or on a single runway like SAN.

Since when?

I know that nobody (that matters) cares about what I think or say,

Especially when you resort to your usual verbosity. Nobody that matters has the time to read that much.

That "strangeness" causes a common mistake": That some people says "80 knots per hour",

I have NEVER heard anyone say "knots per hour."

Imagine a meteorologist NOT being sensationalist. You can't, can you?

That's still empty words, your opinion at best. Any facts? Quotes? Or even do you remember specific cases?. I know, you'll answer "Yes.".

You're certainly an empty words expert, no doubt about that.

I would love you to support that claim. But you won't.

Your 20-year record supports that claim better than I ever could, but thank you for playing.

Side note: People gets my "credentials" rant wrong. I have nothing against credentials. I have some too. They are valuable, and I cherish mine. But when people say "I am right because I have these credentials and who are you to question my knowledge since you don't have credentials&q...

- EDIT: After some research.GPT... It seems (to some AI anyway) that in this scenario Airbus will command maximum nose-down elevator deflection to bring the nose down as quickly as possible, with -1G being a "hard" protection limit, but it also seems that in a typical nose-up upset there ...

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ct2rjnAu5/?mibextid=wwXIfr An excellent jab that light plane people would not_understand. F.A.O.: Flyboy: Why don’t we put the stick forward and ease back on the power? Why the bank? I was impressed at 40 degrees up and steady 200 Kt speeds (or did someone hit P(au...

Cowboy Monkey Tractor Trailer Drivers and headline writers.

I see Juan is on this in his usual fly-on-shit style.

The lack of a flight plan in the TBM-700 crash is interesting.

Probably because it was a billionaire pilot.

Cowboy Monkey Tractor Trailer Drivers and headline writers.

I thought it was John Daly the golfer, for a second...

OGE near-hover is bad.