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Postby Shyster » Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:14 pm

I knew that deer strikes had happened before, but I had no idea that is happens as often as it does, along with lots of other critters getting hit:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... er/516951/
More than 1,000 deer have been hit by airplanes across the country in the past two decades, according to FAA data.
Also in the past decade in the United States, airplanes have hit bats, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, opossums, dessert hares, prairie dogs, cats, dogs, foxes, bull snakes, turtles, armadillos, alligators, badgers, at least one woodchuck, an elk, an antelope jackrabbit, and several rather ominous-sounding “unknown terrestrial mammals.”

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:55 pm

Indonesia says Lion Air passenger flight from Jakarta to Sumatra has crashed

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNBC/status/ ... 5201879040

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Postby Shyster » Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:17 pm

If reports are accurate, the incident aircraft is a brand-new 737 MAX8 that was delivered in August.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:18 am

It was also reported that the same aircraft had issues maintaining altitude the previous day. Also, this:

The top graph is this particular flight, with the bottom being the previous one:

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:07 pm

There's no way I will ever fly one of those East Asian airlines. It seems like every other year we hear about an Indonesian plane crash.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:41 pm

The problem on the earlier fight seems to have been related to instrumentation. It's possible that this is a case where the altitude/airspeed indicators were not displaying the correct values. If so, the data on FlightRadar might not be accurate either. I think the data used by FlightRadar might come from transmissions from the aircraft itself, so if the aircraft is wrong about its own speed and altitude then might have been transmitting bad data to the ground. That was a factor in the crash of Aeroperú Flight 603. A maintenance tech who was washing the aircraft neglected to remove tape that had been used to prevent water from getting in the static and pitot ports. With those blocked, the aircraft didn't have functional airspeed and altimeter data. The pilots asked ATC how high they were, but ATC fed them back bad data because ATC primarily uses "secondary" radar that depends upon the monitored aircraft for such things as identity and altitude. So ATC was reporting back the same garbage data the pilots were seeing. ATC was telling the Aeroperú pilots that they were at 10,000 feet pretty much right up to the 757's wing hitting the water.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:47 pm

There are some good airlines in that part of the world. I would fly on Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific in a second, for example, but the new LCC airlines from Malaysia and Indonesia seem to be having some real quality and safety problems.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:28 pm

One of the other admins of the Cook With Joule group is a career federal LEO, for a variety of agencies (mostly Treasury/Secret Service). His primary AO was Asia, specifically South and Southeast Asia. There was a period of time where he was basically 'commuting' between California and China, with multiple flights back and forth each week. He got to fly business class, and he said Cathay was his favorite, with Singapore a very close second.

He mentioned one trip when he was working out of the US embassy in Bangkok. He had to fly to Honolulu for some meeting or other on a Friday; because the international dateline is a fun thing, he worked all day Friday at his office in Thailand, flew to Narita to connect to HNL, got in early the same Friday morning local time in Hawai'i, worked all day there, did the meeting after work, then immediately got on a plane and flew the reverse route back to Thailand, where it was Sunday on arrival. So he had the same Friday twice, and more or less deleted the Saturday from his life within a contiguous 36-hour period.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:05 pm

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Postby dodint » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:07 pm

legit :lol: thanks man.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:15 pm

:lol:

Terrain! Pull up!

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:28 pm

ALTITUDE, ALTITUDE

Okay, now we're just becoming an airforceproud95 video.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:15 pm

When you’re tired of waiting and decide to change your circling pattern around Mt. Ranier:

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:16 pm

:lol:

That's a cool pilot

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:18 pm

It’s worth noting that he did receive permission to do this.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:10 pm

An interim report on the Lion Air crash has been released. Based on the flight data, malfunctions with the angle-of-attack sensor caused the aircraft's anti-stall system to keep trimming the aircraft to lower the nose, and the pilots eventually lost control. By the end, the aircraft had trimmed itself fully nose down, and at that level of trim a pilot could not physically pull back on the yoke with enough force to maintain level flight. The pilots never switched off the automatic trimming functionality. The report also duns Lion Air for allowing the aircraft to fly in the first place, and the Indonesian investigators have declared that the plane was not airworthy at take-off due to the fact that the sensor problems—which had appeared on prior flights—had not been fixed before the fatal flight.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:35 pm

It remains to be seen how this will effect the supposed drop of the Pittsburgh flight, but it looks like Wow Air will now be purchased by Indigo Partners, which is a private-equity firm that owns a controlling interest in Frontier Airlines as well as significant stakes in Mexican LCC Volaris and European LCC Wizz Air (based primarily in Hungary). Iceland Air pulled out of the purchase, and Indigo Partners stepped in.

This could be a really interesting step for creating a large transatlantic low-cost network. Frontier and Volaris already codeshare at least some of their flights, and Wow could be used as the transatlantic bridge to connect the North American carriers to Wizz in Europe and vice versa. For example, if they codeshare all of these airlines, then someone in Denver who wants to fly to Europe on the cheap could buy one ticket in order to fly Denver to Pittsburgh on Frontier, Pittsburgh to Keflavík on Wow, and then Wow again from Keflavík to one of the Wizz hubs like London Luton or Budapest, from which they could connect to pretty much anywhere else in Europe. Might not be the fastest way to get there, but it would be one of the cheapest.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:05 am

This sounds awful.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7893650/r ... vosibirsk/
Passengers demanded to be let off a “plane from hell” after 50C heat left it like a sauna when the aircon failed.

The Russian travellers had gone from the freezer to the oven after moments earlier being made to stand in a bus with the doors wide open outside the terminal in a bone-chilling minus 25C.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:39 pm

Mrs Tif flew SFO-BUR yesterday, and her flight was delayed around 45 mins. Fairly common for AM flights here this time of year, and she had baked a delay into her meeting planning.

Turns out a Southwest flight from OAK came in hot and overran the runway earlier in the morning.

Weather socked BUR in with 1-mi viz and a low ceiling in heavy rain and gusty winds. Rwy 8 is used for most arrivals, but it's <6,000' long, so anytime a flight goes long and misses the touchdown target, there's a real risk of an overrun. I flew into BUR once in perfect conditions and we went a bit long; the pilot had to bring the aircraft to a complete stop on the runway, and we only had a couple hundred feet to spare. He made a 90° turn and pulled straight into the gate. Same approach in heavy rain must be a hoot, especially considering if the EMAS fails the jet will break through the perimeter fence and pop out on to Hollywood Way, which is a 6-lane blvd.

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:26 pm

The overrun was today.

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Everyone was safe, however they appear to have overshot the Starbucks drive thru window.

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Postby Shyster » Thu Dec 13, 2018 11:13 pm

For your viewing pleasure:



This vid has one of the best comments I've ever read, namely:

Normal GPWS callouts: 50 40 30 20 10
Ryanair GPWS callouts: WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:36 am

Jesus, some of those touchdowns were sporty. Hope they remembered to lower the hook.

Re Burbank: That's funny, the story I read that prompted the post said the story was updated 18 hours earlier. Which would be impossible. lol
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Postby NTP66 » Fri Dec 14, 2018 6:41 am

ANA's new A380 serving NRT-HNL:

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:08 am

The a380 is the commercial aviation equivalent of smacking yourself in the face with a cast iron pan for ten straight minutes because it feels so good when you stop.

But that's a sweet livery.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:55 am

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I love the A380.

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