Estoy buscando una palabra en español que capta el significado de la palabra inglesa 'sermonear' [/Espanol] (Pontificate). "Sermonear" is to preach , both literally and figuratively. I didn't know the figurative meaning of pontificate and had to google it. I was about to say that I don't ...

Estoy buscando una palabra en español que capta el significado de la palabra inglesa 'sermonear' [/Espanol] (Pontificate). You know, looking for those lengues-specific word-meaning procedures, to keep Flyboy and Gabe " out of the roast " I feel like we need to tell them both to take it eas...

...You want to say something to me? Then go on and say it... Well @#$T%! Since I seem to be looking for hidden meanings so much these days: Maybe what Flyboy and ITS and Boeing Bobby and others have said to you and me and Evan and others (more than once) is, " Go easy on the pontificating abou...

...Anyone knows when common sense was dropped over there?... When? It was a slow gradual process. Snot-nosed Evan-like MBA's pinching pennies, the upper 1% demanding more profits from Wall Street, The Wal-Mart effect of consolidation and squeezing for cheapness, FORTRAN analyses of ways to optimize...

Gabriel, where do you get the idea that you can go below 200 ft on a single channel? For example, same link as before. Where do you get the idea that you can't? Or, at what altitude do you suggest that the single AP flying the ILS approach in solid IMC would or should self disengage? I would not se...

...4 sacks of meat on board, 75 gallons of fuel, and still hitting 1000 fpm at over 100 knots indicated... Such power! Do you plan to attempt to four one oh it? (I do concede that that is impressive. Two folks, full fuel and a cold day and you can easily make 800 fpm in a 160 horse, 172M and have s...

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Below 200 ft you don't want to be on a single channel because there's not enough margin for the pilot to react to an AP error (e.g. unexpected pitch down). This applies in APP mode or GA mode. I'm not specifically familiar with the 737 setup but if you are in APP mode below 200 ft in dual channel m...

Hey Gabe...I'm thinking that it's kind of a black and white thinking thing... Maybe we do want 2 autopilots for Cat III ish kind of stuff including a critical go around at 50 or 20 whatever feet.... ...just for those 10 to 20 critical seconds... So because of that, they designed it for all instances...

Congrats on the IFR rating. Please remember to put the wheels down on your high performance 182. I also recommend having a good autopilot as I have read (in obscure magazines) that it is a great CRM tool. If you are kind of busy, let it hold the heading and altitude while you watch what it's doing n...

If my memory serves, our very own Dummy once had the trim act up.

FWIW, I think he went on to complete the flight...

...Trim in a 737 is a completely different animal than in a 172 or Tomahawk...No certification standard requires that the elevator must have enough authority to overpower a runaway trim. Yeah, I know... ...BUT... ...the ability to cause a SUDDEN dive of THAT severity???? Ironingly, I wonder if the ...

....something wrong happened with the trim...and elevator alone was not enough. The response of the plane seems way too much for it being trim (trim = the system to neutralize control forces) Unless you meant trim as the "sum of all airfoils"... I'm saying something bigger (a lot bigger) ...

They went from say 15 degrees nose up to more than 50 degrees nose down in a bunch of seconds. They went from +1G to -1G probably a much smaler bunch of seconds. There is no way to miss that. Spatial disorientation, somatogravic or somatogyral illusions, fatigue, and what not may help explain why t...

Welcome back, PP!

Concur.

Welcome back, Bradley.

Have we completed our IFR and commercial ratings, supervising the B-1 program and purchased a cheap composite BRS-equipped Cirrus?

I won't redo my math, but now they have them going around sooner and leveling sooner for ~900 feet less climb, so no more arguments that the climb might have had to be extreme..../ardvark2zz

You're thinking of pudding, the dispensing of which is governed by completely different procedures.

No...

It's a fundamental rule- no snacks until you've eaten your primary meal.

Don't go type specific on me with this being a 1979 Floyd - Pink...

Sturdy, metallic construction + 172-like performance = frequent occupant survival.

But the plane did died

What's it doing now...and what do all those acronyms stand for? $20 words?

How can you have any crackers if you don't eat your meat?

When I grow up, I want to be a half-cocked jack-donkey.

(I know, my avatar shows an octopus, not a squid. Close enough.)

Indeed.

My favorite quote is this:

It's not a binary thing.

PS, love the new avatar, can I have the old one?

Four replies: Bad procedures Technical discussion Fly by wire Not one mention of the beauty of flight, the beauty of nature nor the beauty of the particular specimen and it's hunting activity. Have we been spending too much time there and developing an Evan mindset? I guess I should be glad we didn'...

If you go around at 720 feet, and reach 3000 feet near the runway threshold...that climb seems kind of extreme and or the 720 feet seems likely well out and well below the ideal glide path.

Wow...this is a top 10 NEAR -TOTAL-AIR-DISASTER!!!!!! I'm reading essentially night time and towing with no illumination, and who knows what in the way of radio communication... I would side with Evan that there may have been relatively-inexcusable, cowboy-like deviations from good practice here. Ca...