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- Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:30 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Replies: 64
- Views: 25821
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 ...
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:57 am
- Forum: Military Aviation Discussion
- Topic: Boeing caught selling used parts as new
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6801
Re: Boeing caught selling used parts as new
You think they give us covfefe?
- 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: 11599
Re: Boeing’s plan for biggest 737 MAX meets with industry doubts
Yes.This calls for the standard, overly bold statement that Boeing wrongly shut down the 757 line
No.and should revive it forthwith.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:47 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: A Hugely Important Announcement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12696
Re: A Hugely Important Announcement
Well done.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:46 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 392699
Re: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Don't worry, we haven't left one up there yet!They say several times that the thing took off. No mention of it landing.
Puzzling.
Per
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:45 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: What's old is new again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3577
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.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:42 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 777 Down?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 65070
Re: 777 Down?
How long do the recorders last at that depth?
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:39 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Verbie, PPie and a friend screw up AF1's oxygen systems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3598
- Fri May 20, 2016 4:53 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: EgyptAir Flight MS804
- Replies: 67
- Views: 28652
Re: EgyptAir Flight MS804
I hope you didn't strain too much coming up with that assessment.They all died. My guess is that the airplane fell out of the sky and hit the water hard
Per
- Fri May 20, 2016 4:52 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: More News You Can Use - Man Proposes to Crash Plane to Prove 911 Hoax
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7107
Re: More News You Can Use - Man Proposes to Crash Plane to Prove 911 Hoax
Who said jet fuel melts steel beams???
- Fri May 20, 2016 4:50 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Replies: 64
- Views: 25821
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.
- 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: 3905
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...
- Fri May 20, 2016 4:20 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: I'm not feeling the LUV
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3445
Re: I'm not feeling the LUV
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...They're just pissed that it's not FBW.
- Tue May 10, 2016 10:54 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: The A380 Scarebus Saga Continues - Near Total Disaster
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15246
Re: The A380 Scarebus Saga Continues - Near Total Disaster
Daily Mail? Why?
- 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: 41263
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...
- Tue May 10, 2016 6:35 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Culinary Thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14118
Re: Culinary Thread
Kangaroo steak was far better than alligator or shark...
- Tue May 10, 2016 6:33 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: FAO: flyboy
- Replies: 90
- Views: 33231
Re: FAO: flyboy
My left leg is atrophying. Unfortunately it's hard to find standards in American Italian cars these days.Real men drive manuals.
- 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: 41263
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...
- Sat May 07, 2016 4:52 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: FAO: flyboy
- Replies: 90
- Views: 33231
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 ...
- Sat May 07, 2016 4:42 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Replies: 64
- Views: 25821
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...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:19 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: What were those aeroengineers thinking?!?!?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4495
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...
- 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: 41263
Re: WHY are two autopilots required for a go-around...
Ground loop? I don't know.Guys, forget those damn autopilots, what I really want Verbie and PPilotie to explain is this (second picture, "Ground tracks") .
(Discovered by Evanie; my interwebs seem to be broken as I don't see updates newer than 25 april on AVHerald )
- 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: 41263
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...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:44 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Flydubai Flight 981, 737, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Replies: 64
- Views: 25821
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...
- 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: 41263
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...