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by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:30 pm
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Replies: 64
Views: 25743

Re: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Electric trim control uses two switches. Both must be activated in the same direction to get trim motion, in order to reduce probability of an electrical short or jammed switch causing uncommanded motion. Interesting. Thanks for the data. I'm surprised an aerodynamicist of your caliber didn't know ...
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:57 am
Forum: Military Aviation Discussion
Topic: Boeing caught selling used parts as new
Replies: 2
Views: 6722

Re: Boeing caught selling used parts as new

You think they give us covfefe? :lol:
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:52 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: Boeing’s plan for biggest 737 MAX meets with industry doubts
Replies: 17
Views: 11528

Re: Boeing’s plan for biggest 737 MAX meets with industry doubts

This calls for the standard, overly bold statement that Boeing wrongly shut down the 757 line
Yes.
and should revive it forthwith.
No.
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:47 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: A Hugely Important Announcement
Replies: 22
Views: 12622

Re: A Hugely Important Announcement

Well done.
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:46 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 391244

Re: 787 troubles, the latest news..

They say several times that the thing took off. No mention of it landing.
Puzzling.
Per
Don't worry, we haven't left one up there yet!
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:45 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: What's old is new again
Replies: 3
Views: 3561

Re: What's old is new again

I took the rear stairs to get off of a JetBlue cracker box back in December. It was awful but the stairs were fine.
by PurduePilot
Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:42 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: 777 Down?
Replies: 133
Views: 64787

Re: 777 Down?

How long do the recorders last at that depth?
by PurduePilot
Fri May 20, 2016 4:53 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: EgyptAir Flight MS804
Replies: 67
Views: 28557

Re: EgyptAir Flight MS804

They all died. My guess is that the airplane fell out of the sky and hit the water hard
Per
I hope you didn't strain too much coming up with that assessment.
by PurduePilot
Fri May 20, 2016 4:50 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Replies: 64
Views: 25743

Re: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Electric trim control uses two switches. Both must be activated in the same direction to get trim motion, in order to reduce probability of an electrical short or jammed switch causing uncommanded motion.
by PurduePilot
Fri May 20, 2016 4:45 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: And, in other news USA TSA is apparently setting some new records for line waits...
Replies: 5
Views: 3897

Re: And, in other news USA TSA is apparently setting some new records for line waits...

Flew through DTW on Monday morning. 10 people ahead of us in line. Took 25 minutes to get through, including a special examination of my keychain after they spent 10 minutes doing a bomb sniff on grandma's purse in front of me. Half of the 10 or so agents present were just standing around, doing not...
by PurduePilot
Fri May 20, 2016 4:20 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: I'm not feeling the LUV
Replies: 4
Views: 3440

Re: I'm not feeling the LUV

They're just pissed that it's not FBW. :lol:
Well it's spoiler by wire and gear by wire... And it's got some nice big TVs up front for the pilots to look at... :?
by PurduePilot
Tue May 10, 2016 6:45 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Replies: 121
Views: 41152

Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...

Dunning-Kruger strikes again! Thanks for the edumacation, Evan. My 6 hour seminar on autopilots was rather generic it seems, and geared mostly around FBW. Agreed, redundancy seems to be the real reason. Gabriel is suggesting stupid "what if" scenarios again, but to his credit I will say th...
by PurduePilot
Tue May 10, 2016 6:35 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Culinary Thread
Replies: 28
Views: 14067

Re: Culinary Thread

Kangaroo steak was far better than alligator or shark...
by PurduePilot
Tue May 10, 2016 6:33 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: FAO: flyboy
Replies: 90
Views: 33138

Re: FAO: flyboy

Real men drive manuals.
My left leg is atrophying. Unfortunately it's hard to find standards in American Italian cars these days.
by PurduePilot
Sat May 07, 2016 5:17 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Replies: 121
Views: 41152

Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...

Jesus h f***ing Christ... Fly by cable, when we're talking about big jets, just means "not fly by wire". You pull on control column. Steel Cable attached to column travels back through fuselage, goes through pulleys and Christmas trees to get split into multiple cables feeding multiple PCU...
by PurduePilot
Sat May 07, 2016 4:52 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: FAO: flyboy
Replies: 90
Views: 33138

Re: FAO: flyboy

18 months ago I got meself a 2015 jeep Cherokee trailhawk v6 9 speed auto. Overall mostly happy and nice on the forest roads. Haven't tried any real off roading with it. Decent highway gas mileage, considering (upper 20s mpg). The rotary knob for 4wd is a little less thrilling than that "clunk ...
by PurduePilot
Sat May 07, 2016 4:42 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Replies: 64
Views: 25743

Re: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

I experienced somatogravic issues during my most recent missed approach in IMC in the 182RG. Everything felt and sounded fine while I was fiddling with the radio and when I resumed my scan I was leveled off and accelerating instead of climbing at Vy. Contributing factor was probably that this was t...
by PurduePilot
Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:19 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: What were those aeroengineers thinking?!?!?
Replies: 7
Views: 4482

Re: What were those aeroengineers thinking?!?!?

If you re-open a cross feed valve, you over ride important fire systems? How non-intuitive! What were they thinking? I would have designed it differently! A "Perf" option on the autopilot that has 100 feet of slop? That won't work! What were they thinking? I would have designed it differe...
by PurduePilot
Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:04 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Replies: 121
Views: 41152

Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...

Guys, forget those damn autopilots, what I really want Verbie and PPilotie to explain is this (second picture, "Ground tracks") :shock: .
(Discovered by Evanie; my interwebs seem to be broken as I don't see updates newer than 25 april on AVHerald :? )
Ground loop? I don't know.
by PurduePilot
Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:00 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Replies: 121
Views: 41152

Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...

Gabe, you're partially correct. It's both. I'm not going to get into the weeds on a complex airplane system that was designed over twenty years ago (even if I could share such information), but are you familiar with "Fail active" versus "fail passive"? You are correct that redund...
by PurduePilot
Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:44 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Replies: 64
Views: 25743

Re: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

I experienced somatogravic issues during my most recent missed approach in IMC in the 182RG. Everything felt and sounded fine while I was fiddling with the radio and when I resumed my scan I was leveled off and accelerating instead of climbing at Vy. Contributing factor was probably that this was th...
by PurduePilot
Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:46 pm
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Replies: 121
Views: 41152

Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...

Anyway the reason two autopilot channels are required to transition from approach mode to go around is that when you advance the thrust for the go around there is a very large pitch up moment and a single channel would have insufficient nose down elevator authority to counter it until sufficient nos...

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