Full motion flight simulators don't recreate the type of motion that cause somatogyral illusion. More specifically, they don't roll when you bank and spin when you turn. Well, then I'll probably never get a chance, since even if someday I get around to taking a flight or two there's no realisticall...

Report is out. Seems the reason the Cirrus was overtaking is that they were speeding. By a lot.

My feeling is that unless your interest in flying is specifically limited to good-weather things (e.g. aerobatics), and in particular if you're ever using the plane for transportation, you should get your instrument license for real and keep current. Otherwise you're eventually going to end up in a ...

About halfway through there's one where they end up nearly fully inverted, and watching it I was thinking "no no no" and realized: in that one I would have continued the motion and rolled the rest of the way around rather than stopping and rolling back, and that instinct is apparently trai...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/flair- ... -1.6776186

Anyone taking bets on whether Flair or Sunwing shuts down first?

Flying with no radio at all seems flatly insane to me. (And why are they talking about different altimeter settings when without a radio you can't hear anyone else's altitudes or report your own?)

Also, I'm quite familiar with the slightly odd feeling you get when the A/C (or a car, for that matter) does not do that little jerk that means you're fully stopped, and I imagine an unintended bank that snuck up on you is much the same, but for me at least the weird feeling is easily consciously ov...

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand these spatial disorientation problems. It's one thing if you tumble your artificial horizon, or it's bust, but absent that... do people forget to look at it? Not believe it? Do people ...also not believe the horizon out the window? It's not a matter of believ...

I've been thinking not so much missing as transposing incorrectly for left/right. Which is easy to do if you're flying the wrong side _and_ you've been doing it all day and you're no longer watching out for the differences. Then once you grab the wrong lever your hand knows how to move it, especiall...

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand these spatial disorientation problems. It's one thing if you tumble your artificial horizon, or it's bust, but absent that... do people forget to look at it? Not believe it? Do people ...also not believe the horizon out the window? (Or maybe, in a sim the wind...

We already have "WINDSHEAR" and "GLIDESLOPE" and whatnot. Just generating voice notices is easy enough. I guess with chatgpt you could train it on millions of CVR/FDR transcripts and prompt it with the last ten minutes of FDR data and so forth plus "say what the PM would say...

Another point about muscle memory is: it will tell you how to move the levers under your hand, so the fact that they engage differently (and are a different shape, and two of them instead of one) won't necessarily stop you. Ideally if you do that the contradiction between what you just did and what ...

Do you feather props with the same motions as the NEARBY flap handle (you French aeroengineers did WHAT?) Look at the picture: almost exactly the same motion from flaps 15 -> 30 as condition from auto -> feather. As someone said on avh, not a masterpiece of engineering design. TBH, if I were design...

ALL THAT BEING SAID, (AND EVAN IS AVODIING THIS), IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL TO SEND A FEW MORE KB OF INFORMATION USING REAL WORDS, BUT BILL GATES AND STEVE JOBS OPEERATING SYSTEMS ARE SO FULL OF INFLATED BULLCRAP AND NON INTUITIVE RULES AND SECRET COMPUTER CODES.... ITS THEIR SYSTEMS CRAPPING OUT, NOT TH...

ZOMCOT

I don't think there's any reason to think the bank we know about was commanded and I don't think there's any reason to suppose a different earlier one.

The BBC decided they thought it was real: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-64287331 They do not know any more about aviation than the rest of the popular press, but they do probably know something about fake videos. On the other hand, so does Simon. So I dunno. Not enthusiastic about watc...

http://majesticsoftware.com/mjc8q400/sample_flight/img_250.png That's quite the confusing panel, particularly the top right knob. I mean, sure, you're supposed to have read the directions before operating it, and I haven't, but stuff like this increases the risk of making stupid blunders when using...

A different kind of turn to very short final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRn07rM46sk

Regarding your last question: alpha max is very close to the AoA of max lift. That is why a stall warning with normal margins over the actual stall would sound before the alpha max protection kicked in. That would be very bad because the stall warning has precedence to everything else. Even windseh...

Upon further reading, there’s gossip that WNs computer systems went Y2K…and this is perhaps the real cause. (Triggered by weather and high demand, but…)

That seems to be the case from what I've seen. So I doubt we'll ever find out what really happened.

Also, I'm slightly amused that this is the headline thread in the Off-Topic Forum and it's on topic.

I can see myself (maybe, but not likely) pulling a Renslow, but cannot see myself pulling a Bonin. They are still not really the same thing. Whatever mental state Bonin was or wasn't in, he was processing enough to be able to say "I've been pulling up the whole time". Whereas in the other...

There was that incident recently where the FO became functionally incapacited for several minutes... I can't remember anything else about it so I can't at the moment find it... other than it involved messing with the flaps and/or gear without apparently realizing what they were doing... anyway, that...

ok, I'll bite. What is that object?