AA 836 CLT-DFW on 12/29 seemed to depart normally climbing to 26,000 feet, but then has been stepping down to as low as 9700 feet and now 5700 enroute to DFW. I’m guessing it’s not an engine out situation (they would have diverted) or pressurization issue (diverted also?). But a 4:30 flight on what ...
Jump to postIf you look at Flightaware, they dropped down to 10k feet about 750 miles out from Oahu. And then while still 180 miles out they dropped down to 5000 feet. Man I wish I was a passenger on that flight just to look out the window and see the perspective of flying that low over the ocean for that long....
Jump to postThe link below shows an impressive video capture of a plane being struck by lightning while parked at a gate with the boarding jetway removed. Looks like the bolt hits the top of the tail and exits through the tires as evidenced by some temporary flames. Neat video. <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us...
Jump to postI came across a mention in the July 1973 edition of Popular Science that the Concorde was going to be used to "chase" an eclipse across Africa allowing scientists 80 minutes to conduct experiments. It further mentions modifications to the roof to fit special windows as well. Can't say I had ever hea...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/uberflieger" class="quote" target="_blank">uberflieger</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Linking a cool pic of the roll out w...
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Jump to postI'm pretty sure if someone measured it, you'd find the E concourse at <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> is much more narrow than C or A concourse. Not sure if that's because A or C has been expanded since it opened, but E is very cramped (re...
Jump to postPerhaps related to the <acronym title="Sao Paulo - Guarulhos International (Cumbica) (GRU / SBGR), Brazil">GRU</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> plane that diverted into ORF for maintenance yesterday? They probab...
Jump to postHad this happen to me on a <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym>-ORF routing on Piedmont Airlines around 1989 or so. The Piedmont 767 diverted to ORF. One ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/a380787" class="quote" target="_blank">a380787</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>3. last minute award fee - plan your trips a...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rfields5421" class="quote" target="_blank">rfields5421</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>As zanl188 said - scheduling makes t...
Jump to postAnd it wasn't just this guy.... towards the end of the video his (presumably) wife picks up something on the counter and smashes it to the ground. Apparently, it runs in the family?
Jump to postOne flight back in the 90's on an L1011 on short final to <acronym title="Salt Lake City - International (SLC / KSLC), USA - Utah">SLC</acronym> (guess which airline!), we hung a full 360 and completed the landing. Sure gets your attention when you are in that center seat of the 2-5-2 seating and ca...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tjwgrr" class="quote" target="_blank">tjwgrr</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Quoting goldenargosy (Reply 4): Does anyone kn...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/JAAlbert" class="quote" target="_blank">JAAlbert</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>So is this $30 (and up) fee in addition ...
Jump to postPretty sure the new 767 aircraft are incompatible with the AMJ's that FedEx uses, aren't they? It's been a long time, but is it the A2 container that UPS uses in those airplanes? If FedEx is going to introduce a new container type into the network -- that seems like a tremendous cost in addition to ...
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Jump to postI don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've often wondered why departing Hawaii they aren't allowed to pull the wraps off the fresh fruit until *after* takeoff. What gives? Didn't the fruit come from Hawaii or did they have to bring it on the inbound leg? Twice now I've been up front and there was ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/racsome" class="quote" target="_blank">racsome</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Hey there, You may wish to try this as a sta...
Jump to postBut it could happen unintentionally as I understand it. Now I don't work for a passenger airline, but my understanding is the only thing that you have actual weight for is the fuel and the empty weight of the aircraft. The rest -- baggage and people -- are estimated using seasonal averages. But just...
Jump to post[quote=Viscount724,reply=18]IL-62 only has reversers on the two outboard engines and they can be deployed while airborne. You would think using reverse on any T-tail airplane would cause problems with the elevators and/or rudder losing effectiveness, wouldn't you? The reverse process must make a mes...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote" ><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/upsphl" class="quote" target="_blank">upsphl</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>any FedEx people do you guys load the right...
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Jump to postI can tell you that FedEx plans 90 minutes for a complete MD-11 turn from block in to block out. Typically 35 min to download and 50 min to upload with a crew of about 17, though I've seen it done with as little as 14 (depends if you are loading Aft bulk).
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Jump to postThe cargo guys like FedEx have a number of aircraft that come in Friday morning and don't depart again until Monday evening. <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> has 2 <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-10's and an A300 that do this, ...
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Jump to postI've looking for some recommendations on a relatively inexpensive crew scheduling/optimizer which will help me develop bid lines. Ideally it would be relatively easy to configure constraints for work time rules (which may be more stringent than FAA regs)... I know most large airlines have home-grown...
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