A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with the Boom Engineers discussing Flight Deck layout and avionics integration in the more confined Overture space. Enjoyed a tour of the XB-1 and flew the simulator with the Test Pilots. Most of the engineers had been hired very recently. ...
Jump to postThe hospitality industry did not schedule for 200 people when their staffing level could only accommodate 100; that's the difference. Where are you finding this staffing issue at AA? The airline cannot make a schedule without enough staffing to cover said schedule. The issue is a combination of wea...
Jump to postN436UA A320 is scheduled to exit LCQ MX and ferry to IAD F2744/27 Oct N48127 757-200 is scheduled to enter ILN MX F2747/27 Oct N17264 737MAX8 has entered PDX induction. Interesting that this aircraft ferried from PAE instead of BFI. That was me. We found it odd that we flew out of PAE as well. With...
Jump to posthitower3 wrote:Fun fact: ALL aircraft currently in UA's mainline fleet are able to complete the route LHR-BOS non-stop.
A-net is so funny. “Underwhelming”. Underwhelming would be “We are adding a new destination in Europe”. Obviously there are a lot of things that need to happen for this to come to fruition. But you have to start somewhere, and this is where you start. And it’s a huge and interesting announcement. I...
Jump to postA-net is so funny. “Underwhelming”. Underwhelming would be “We are adding a new destination in Europe”. Obviously there are a lot of things that need to happen for this to come to fruition. But you have to start somewhere, and this is where you start. And it’s a huge and interesting announcement.
Jump to postI remember well flying the 737-500 into HVN during a snow storm “back in the day”. It’s a challenge for sure. The -700 will have no problem performance wise there, but the pilots will earn their money.
Jump to postMy body, my choice. I will not be a lab rat for big pharma. You can always say its against your religion. If your employer cans you, after telling them that, I see a large settlement in your future. Yes, your body, your choice. Just like the airline has a choice not to give you shifts if they think...
Jump to postIn the US there is some debate about the legality of mandating employees to get vaccinated. This issue is still developing as far as I understand it and it looks like it may be left up to the individual states to declare their policy. What is the position with regards to airlines, their employees a...
Jump to postTalking about the communications in this incident, I also thought back to US1549 and just listened to the recordings. That is professionalism at its finest, efficient, concise. Sully truly is a good pilot. The UA328 pilot on the radio said his callsign wrong 2 times before the engine failed...and w...
Jump to postI am of two minds with the communication. Yes it was a little stressed, which showed, but it was a high workload situation and with high terrain ahead they did need a turn quite quickly so the communication was necessary. But whilst it was a little unclear it did not affect the outcome. I am consta...
Jump to postRobK wrote:You won't find any public recording of 8843 KHz and neither will he.
Aero94 wrote:Here's the footage from the US Coastguard: https://www.facebook.com/USCGASBarbersPoint/posts/3088866111340328/
Does anyone have the ATC recording? ETNIC is in the middle of the Pacific so they would have been on HF. Don't know what time of day it happened but one of 11282 8843 or 5574 KHz was likely the frequency in use and there is no coverage on liveatc.net for those. Good thing that 121.5 was tuned as no...
Jump to postI was the Alaska pilot on the radio relaying all the information. We were communicating with ATC multiple ways. When they ditched there was a ship near by, but they were unable to get on board due to rough seas. The coast guard was waiting for daylight to rescue them. It should be soon. Hardest mom...
Jump to postI was the Alaska pilot on the radio relaying all the information. We were communicating with ATC multiple ways. When they ditched there was a ship near by, but they were unable to get on board due to rough seas. The coast guard was waiting for daylight to rescue them. It should be soon. Hardest mom...
Jump to postI’d say they were some “lucky” pilots. https://www.khon2.com/local-news/coast-guard-good-samaritans-respond-to-downed-aircraft-off-of-oahu/ AWESOME NEWS. Thanks so much for sharing this info. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep now. They did all the right things with their MAYDAY call which allowed the...
Jump to postWas in the area at the time of the accident this afternoon. They did survive the ditching it appears. A number of hours after the ditching several airplanes were reporting an elt return. So the airplane floated a long time or it was the raft. Called atc later on to ask how they were doing and it ap...
Jump to postA Pilatus PC-12 ferry flight to Hilo suffered an engine failure near ETNIC intersection and ditched into the Pacific this afternoon. 2 souls on board. It was hard to listen to. I’m wondering if anyone has access to information to see if they survived the ditching and were rescued? Praying for their ...
Jump to postIn an industry where safety trumps all, this is an “interesting” way to operate. Since 1978, most of the world’s airlines have figured out how human factors work in concert with procedures to create a culture that fosters safe operations. I guess those lessons learned in blood haven’t made it to the...
Jump to postAnyone notice how the major airports are ghost towns with the mask policies in place? Just flew MSP-DFW and back last week. The planes were less than half full and the airports were all but deserted. By riding the COVID 19 bandwagon, the airlines are committing suicide. The airlines need to stop be...
Jump to post[photoid][/photoid] Starting at $52/hour for FOs with a 62 hour guarantee. $38,000/year. Sadly there's going to be no shortage of pilots willing to fly for that in these times. Oh the horror! $38K per year for a part time job, how will they live? What a wildly ridiculous comment. Keep in mind these ...
Jump to postOne thing to note about United's lower cash burn, they have been by far the stingiest of the network career with refunds (they have relaxed some). Delta has still been refunding a significant amount of tickets, which is why United has lower cash burn - it's done on the backs of their customers. Any...
Jump to postVideo from the cabin of the approach. Doesn’t appear to have been caused by a hard landing.
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DEN is currently infrastructure limited, but the ongoing expansions should fix that in the short term. I think they will need to start planning for a terminal D. Denver isn’t as large of a market as the other cities you mentioned but the smaller market does seem to have a greater propensity to trav...
Jump to postPilots are bus drivers in a machine with wings. Compare HCP Online Physician Forums with Airline Pilot Central. My 3.7 degree from a great university and my hundreds of hours flight training are a bit more than what the average MARTA driver has but I hope you voice your opinion to the people that a...
Jump to postIt’s over. Skywest, Republic and Mesa signed the agreements yesterday
Jump to postWhat do you think the revenue miss was from 14 grounded aircraft? How many spares do you think UA schedules in the summer across mainline and UX? The search for excuses is endless. There are another 20 MAX’s that were supposed to be delivered that weren’t, so it’s actually north of 30 aircraft that...
Jump to postWhat do you think the revenue miss was from 14 grounded aircraft? How many spares do you think UA schedules in the summer across mainline and UX? The search for excuses is endless. There are another 20 MAX’s that were supposed to be delivered that weren’t, so it’s actually north of 30 aircraft that...
Jump to postIt will be interesting to see what happens to these hot and high airports in the next decade as the 757 retires into the dustbin of history. Weight restricted A320s cant be desired by the airlines. Is this something an A220 could manage at full load? Might be these airports will need to lengthen th...
Jump to postOnly in your warped imagination. :lol:. Oh, I'm definitively not concerned about how you're taking it. I'll let your words (the lack of them in this case) tell the story. I genuinely hope this was posted in jest. If not, this displays a gross sense of entitlement. It's not entitlement; it's a natur...
Jump to postYeah, AA and UAL have more widebodies that DAL, but who is more profitable? And who has the best profitsharing? To say nothing of the job security that accrues to all employees of a better run, more profitable company. For pilots looking for a job, number of wide bodies matters more than profit sha...
Jump to postUnited has way more than 123 outstanding MAX’s to be delivered....
Jump to postYes there are -8’s due to be delivered, but the number is not published anywhere so I don’t know whether it was an add on or a conversion. I remember being surprised when I heard it from someone “in the know” because I hadn’t remembered hearing about the -8’s coming up to that point.
Jump to postWhere I disagree with Sully is whether SIM training is needed AT THIS POINT. With the MCAS fix in place and from what I hear, successful, future MCAS failure events should be a non-issue. So what needs to be seen in the simulator? If the MCAS software fix HADN’T been done, I completely agree that s...
Jump to postWhere I disagree with Sully is whether SIM training is needed AT THIS POINT. With the MCAS fix in place and from what I hear, successful, future MCAS failure events should be a non-issue. So what needs to be seen in the simulator? If the MCAS software fix HADN’T been done, I completely agree that si...
Jump to postYeah agree the above is my wet dream. Could have been worse, which though is never a huge endorsement Anecdotally on the Airtrain today from Newark Airport rail station over to the terminals, I spoke with a UA pilot and ground staffer about the new logo. No-one is right or wrong, but these troops f...
Jump to postEither of these would have been so much better - nice work! I think the swoosh and the billboard 'United' and the tail globe are all individually fine elements. But together they're disconnected and a mess - it screams LCC which is not to diss LCC's, but more to the point that UA is not branding it...
Jump to postAs a lot of people have found out the hard way, many jobs can be done by a computer/robot now, so perhaps the pilots should think twice before demanding large salary increases for a job that is POSSIBLE to be carried out by a computer. Flight decks on many large a/c went down from 3 crew to 2 crew,...
Jump to postI was on this flight and it was the roughest takeoff by far I had ever been a part of. To the point I bought the internet after take off and texted my father within 8 minutes to tell him how bad it was. It took over 10 minutes for the pilot to tell us of an incident that he related to “computer pro...
Jump to postIt’s horribly sad that it took a massive loss of life to uncover the issue (or issues). But when people say that modern airplanes have become too complex to fly, they should probably ask the people that do the flying. I think this is a terrible statement. The crash was premeditated murder. It was n...
Jump to postThe technology in the MAX is a real boon to safety. There is clearly something happening software integration wise, but the airplane has an huge amount of information to give the pilot SA. you are talking about sugar coating. At issue here is the basic airframe and how the designers coped with a ma...
Jump to postMCAS MCAS MCAS. Several reports from US Pilots are out where there was an uncommanded nose pitch movement. Autopilot was clicked off and the flight was quickly recovered. So this is being touted as evidence of how dangerous the MCAS is. In these flights, there was no faulty airspeed or AOA indicatio...
Jump to postI am not a pilot nor a fo but an avid enthusiastic flyer. Do any of the old school pilots and captains think technology in aircrafts has gotten to complicated to the point were they feel out of place in the cockpit nowadays? I'm 40 and remember those long 10hr plus transatlantic flights with family...
Jump to postWell, we still don’t know if the Ethiopian accident was even an MCAS event. Recovered jackscrew shows stabilizer leading edge up, hence nose down (we know that MCAS response to a stall is to put the nose down) Vertical speed variation from FR24 is similar to Lion Air - the time between peaks is 20 ...
Jump to post^^^ ok so with that info and apparently how easy it is to disable the trim or a failing mcas system due to faulty sensor inputs....how did these pilots allow the plane to fall out of the sky? Some replies I got earlier made it seem like you cannot manually fly the 737max?!? I wish I knew why it was...
Jump to postHow fast can you out the windscreen and notice the horizon getting worryingly high up the view? I’d say a couple of seconds. GF Naw it’s not terribly fast. There still isn’t a whole heap of information given to us on the MCAS system, but I’m guessing it’s the same rate as the Speed Trim, which isn’...
Jump to postUnited Airlines have had more incidents and deaths than ET in the same timeframe, Lion has had one major crash in 16 years of operation. Heck, KLM caused more deaths in One accident than Lion and ET together have in their lifetime. What are you talking about???? Ethiopian had a fatal crash in 2009 ...
Jump to post-or- let’s ground Lion Air and Ethiopian Airways until the crash can be figured out. Makes more sense. They have crashed a whole lot of planes and killed a lot of people so until we know just ground them. They have? Really... United Airlines have had more incidents and deaths than ET in the same ti...
Jump to postGibraltar is tracherous and requires special training. Monarch in particular were very hot on that. The problem isn't PIO my little armchair CEOs. It is a thing called a rotor. Spinning masses of air like a horizontal tornado that come rolling off the Rock in certain circumstances. There were quite...
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