Deutsche Bahn saw demand for air-rail connections with Lufthansa jump 25% in 2022, after fully recovering the year before. https://skift.com/blog/germanys-deutsche-bahn-sees-jump-in-air-rail-passenger-numbers/ https://i.postimg.cc/4dYvhbd6/Fo4-DTRz-WIAI9-Emv.jpg Looking at this map, it's disappoint...
Jump to postGood grief, what's been going on with air carriers the last couple of months??? DL landing short at AMS, AA runway incursion JFK, QR nearly hits the ocean departing DOH, the near collision with FX and WN at AUS, now this previously unreported incident with UA. Although- I'm wondering if this thing ...
Jump to postCARST wrote:Two words and one number...
COST INDEX 0
p.s. Feel lucky if your airline allows you to go above zero in cases where you don't have to make up delays.
What a sweet machine Only flew a 58 once, but I spent a year flying an ancient, clapped out 55 model carrying cancelled checks for the federal reserve bank in all kinds of weather, thunderstorms, icing, low ceilings and visibility, whatever it was that beautiful Baron got me there One of the best a...
Jump to postIntuition is not what is needed in a large plane. It is actually dangerous sometimes. Look at your instruments. Information is presented clearly and for everyone to digest. Intuition doesn’t equal a gut feeling. It means being able to understand a situation immediately without conscious reasoning (...
Jump to postAt the level of flying that is airline flying, do they not teach some sort of pitch & power settings, or is it all just following a flight director? Teaching it in a class and sim is one thing, doing it for real is very much a different thing. I recognize that, it still gives pilots with less e...
Jump to postI'm wondering what these pilot's qualifications were, how many flying hours they have. They certainly don't seem to have been experienced, to allow such a near disaster due to their bumbling. Poor airmanship is an understatement. I’m betting it’s one of these MPL licenses, all the ones I’ve seen ha...
Jump to postWouldn’t they be following a SID? Wouldn’t the SIDS be in the FMS database? Why would the crew be changing waypoints in their flight plan at this early stage of the flight? Also, 1000 feet in 24 seconds is actually 2500 feet fpm. The 3000 fpm must have occurred for a very short period of those 24 s...
Jump to postI'm wondering what these pilot's qualifications were, how many flying hours they have. They certainly don't seem to have been experienced, to allow such a near disaster due to their bumbling. Poor airmanship is an understatement. Pilots with thousands and thousands of hours more often than not have...
Jump to postIt’s absolutely a lack of flying skills. I’m just figuring they were out over the water at night and couldn’t make heads nor tails of what they saw outside, and got lost with no accurate FD. Then disselecting it would have been appropriate, if the FD is not showing sensible things. And anyway, I ca...
Jump to postI’m not sure I’d call it “loss of situational awareness” as much as lacking in basic instrument flying skills. It’s absolutely a lack of flying skills. I’m just figuring they were out over the water at night and couldn’t make heads nor tails of what they saw outside, and got lost with no accurate F...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:I’m not sure I’d call it “loss of situational awareness” as much as lacking in basic instrument flying skills.
How does a transport category pilot enter a 3000fpm descent when doing a climbing turn with no FD guidance? I don’t understand why there was no FD guidance. I question if that is accurate. The captain being slow to enter a new waypoint in the FMC has nothing to do with the Flight Director. The Flig...
Jump to postIt helps to realize that the experience requirement is a stand-in for judgement and emergency skills, which are difficult to measure directly. The premise is that these attributes are more highly developed in experienced pilots. Which is statistically true . But as with all statistical results, you...
Jump to postIn spite of being a supporter of "bread and butter" car manufacturers being in the pinnacle of motorsport, I'm really underwhelmed by the Ford announcement. I don't really see what they bring to the table, especially in terms of technical expertise. I feel exactly the same way about Cadil...
Jump to postDARPA is narrowing down on a competition that appears to be a restriction of Boeing's Pelican ULTRA: https://www.flyingmag.com/darpa-narrows-down-liberty-lifter-design-competition/ The teams in the contest are General Atomics is teamed with Maritime Applied Physics Corp, and Boeing teamed with Gibb...
Jump to postFrom early pilot training days, it is instilled into you NEVER to enter OR cross a runway, whether known to be live or not, without carefully looking both directions. Captain/left seat should look left and say audibly "Clear on/to the left", likewise Co-Pilot should look right and say &qu...
Jump to postThat would make too much sense in an aviation industry plagued by pilots who think they are (or should be) god and c-suite managers who will cut an olive from a salad to save money. The real problem is an archaic system where people are of the mindset "We have been doing it this way, don't tel...
Jump to postAs far as I can see we know without doubt that there was a significant loss of situational awareness in the AA crew, leaving aside the event, consider the official version of the aftermath. They were told a number to call and this apparently didn't ring big bells for them. How many times in a caree...
Jump to postIf the roles were reversed and say a seasoned 20 year veteran controller made a mistake and cleared the plane for takeoff while also letting an aircraft taxi across it, more than likely that controller will be pulled off position and tapes will be analyzed. It’s not about “creating drama”. It’s abo...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postSorry Nicoeddf, but this was a serious event that bears significant scrutiny. Had the DL aircraft that departed before the incident aircraft not been a widebody, and thus had a longer interval before the incident aircraft could depart, this could have been an actual metal-bending event. I disagree ...
Jump to postBut that would contradict the JonNYC tweets from a passenger who said that the plane accelerated to get off the runaway. Since there apparently will be no CVR, they can tell any story they want. Perfect. If I'm the FO, however, and it seemed to me like the leak to Forbes was designed by the airline...
Jump to postThis whole war is one strange affair. So Russia doesn’t dare or want to use (and loose) their aircraft despite their ground forces in desperate need of any help they can get.
So, when exactly did Russia think they could use their aircraft in combat scenarios? In Georgia and Syria only?
Terrier79 wrote:Amwest2United wrote:I may have missed it, but has LH announced the A380 routes for this coming NS23?
BOS and JFK will be first.
Unlike many other countries, Germany so far only published the AIP IFR free of charge. The AIP VFR with the VFR charts was sold for a high price. This was critizised for years since this is important information for VFR flight operations. Fortunately, this has changed now - you can see the AIP now ...
Jump to postAll one needs to do is a simple Google search to find tons of articles and research pieces (including reputable organizations like the NTSB) about how severe turbulence is becoming more prevalent and is forecasted to get progressively worse over the next few decades due to changes in climate (notic...
Jump to postSEU wrote:Oh the horrors!
There's no way to answer this question as there's no concrete definition of the types of turbulence, what is severe turbulence for one may be moderate for another. What is moderate turbulence in a RJ might be light turbulence in a B777. I've never personally experienced what I would call severe tur...
Jump to postI have flown myself onboard a Maltese registered eurowings aircraft within Germany. Including Maltese crew. Since this fall Eurowings has started to serve actual Lufthansa flights under LH flight number as Lufthansa's "wet lease" partner as well. So far for the facts. Jep. As short term c...
Jump to postWhat else could it be but another labour squeezing play?! Could be a competitive play. Marabu will operate out of MUC and HAM. They pointedly did not pick FRA or DUS which are by far Condor's largest bases (or LEJ where they are the largest operator). Condor is facing quite a bit of headwinds from ...
Jump to postAnd the unions are not happy! Same owner, same business model, same bases and routes. Hopefully this doesn't turn into yet another labor squeezing play. Condor has had very good labor relations historically, it would be a shame to loose that. What else could it be but another labour squeezing play?!
Jump to postMax is on a different level though, in my absolutely personal opinion. I am no fan of HAM at all, but if you can’t see the worlds of difference comparing attitudes of HAM and VER… The 2022 HAM isn’t the 2016 HAM, who is much more comparable (age, experience) with the 2022 VER. Already posted upthre...
Jump to post[quote="TheFlyingDisk"][/quote] Your statement regarding standard of fans awfully sounds like „everything used to be better“. And yes, every F1 driver has a certain sense of entitlement. They wouldn’t be where they are if they hadn’t. Max is on a different level though, in my absolutely pe...
Jump to postIf PER thinks he’s getting love from RBR he’s very nave…. He’s second driver of RBR, gets paid very well for it and should behave like that. He should actually take out Max at an opportune moment sometime next year, in a Hamilton-Rosberg like move. That would be fun as a spectator, fun in the press...
Jump to postAccording to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf” the return of Danny has been confirmed by Helmut Marko. He’ll be the third driver. https://www.telegraaf.nl/sport/318157239/helmut-marko-bevestigt-terugkeer-daniel-ricciardo-bij-red-bull Great timing! I'm sure Checo feels so much love coming from his team...
Jump to post8500ft length at 5500ft elevation … no problem on a good day but will have significant weight restrictions with winter weather conditions. Could be a contributing factor. What would be limiting about winter weather? Too good performance of engines and wings? Runway friction coefficient is a thing, ...
Jump to postOkcflyer wrote:8500ft length at 5500ft elevation … no problem on a good day but will have significant weight restrictions with winter weather conditions. Could be a contributing factor.
Alias1024 wrote:T18 wrote:Geez Lance, you cannot keep doing that.
That was ridiculous. Drove his teammate right into the grass.
T18 wrote:Geez Lance, you cannot keep doing that.
LDRA wrote:zkojq wrote:I smell discounting....
I smell pulling political levers. All the lobbyists aren't for nuthin
The airbus is so much an easier platform for low-time pilots to learn versus the decades old boeing. Asian airlines often have 200-300 hour pilots in the right seat and the 737 is not an appropriate aircraft to start out on, at least compared to the bus. And yet in Europe 200hrs pilots have no issu...
Jump to postI don't find the B-21 to be particularly fearsome. You wouldn't fear hundreds of aircraft, any one of which could destroy anything on, or quite a few meters under, any centimeter of the surface of the earth without being detected? And then do it all again the next day, and the next day... It's pret...
Jump to postNoshow wrote:They are very smart to optimize those details now that they had some fat H2. Many legacy carriers just don't care and wonder how the other guys end up with costs so much lower.
I watched this interview of George Yeo (ex Foreign Minister of Singapore) on why US can not expect most Asian countries, including US close allies to follow US moves to contain China. https://youtu.be/pEQ-a6sgjvc Listening to Mr. Yeo is interesting. Listening to the SCMP chief editor is hugely pain...
Jump to postCan you blame them? With the US Hawks banging the war drums for conflict in the SCS they'd be silly not to increase the defenses. If the Chinese didn’t play silly games like they are doing then the US would not be so vocal and call out China and there own interpretation of UNCLOS I am firmly a defe...
Jump to postVery empty RJ above F400, certainly no CRJ. I have been doing 400 and 410 in the CR9 with reasonable loads (2:20h block times, 28 tons ZFW, about 33 tons TOW. No issue. “No CRJ” was a blanket statement in error, huge difference in perf for the 700/900 than the the original 200. My brief experience ...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Very empty RJ above F400, certainly no CRJ.