Thank you to the topic poster, and all who replied! I have been incredibly curious about this question for years and just never thought to post the question here...I learned a lot today!
Jump to postI'm not a pilot or controller, but I did experience an aborted landing at JFK runway 13L, and then later checked out the LiveATC recording from that time. Takeoffs on 13R were temporarily suspended until our aircraft was sufficiently away from the airport.
Jump to postI don't think anything should be named for Obama, simply because I strongly dislike naming anything after a person, living or dead, especially politicians...too much room for controversy. Airports should be named for the city and district/neighborhood in which they are located, like China and many o...
Jump to postIn my opinion... Best looking: 727. Its profile just screams speed and power, and it was among the first aircraft on which I flew as a child. It always gave me this funny feeling in my stomach during descent that I loved and never felt on any other aircraft. Honorable mention: DC10, MD11, IL86/96 . ...
Jump to postLooking at grades from before college seems to be very field-specific. I don't work in the aviation industry, but I am a meteorologist, which is a big part of aviation. When I graduated, about 1/4 of the companies I applied to required certified high school transcripts; one even required middle scho...
Jump to postGreat report! So lucky to get such a light load factor...I haven't been on a flight that wasn't at or near 100% LF since 1998! I find it interesting that you experienced a "smackdown" on landing in the A380. On the only 380 flight I've taken (SQ26 SIN-JFK via FRA), on both landings in FRA ...
Jump to postI've flown on MU's former A346 B-6050 multiple times...including on an entire roundtrip PVG-JFK-PVG (inbound and outbound were about a month apart). I've probably been on MU's other 346s more than once. Flew on CA's former 744M B-2468 twice...PEK-SFO and JFK-PEK. Flew on KE's 744 HL7472 twice, both ...
Jump to postI know this topic has come up before, but it still confuses the heck out of me. I know I have seen KLM aircraft in both the KLM Asia and KLM "Crown" liveries in mainland China, so I doubt this had anything to do with the image of the Crown or any representation of the Dutch monarchy being ...
Jump to postI agree. We are told that D:0 is the absolute best metric for customer satisfaction, only next to A:0. Really, D:15 is the best metric, if airlines were able to purposefully delay flights with no penalty for up to 15 minutes for connections -- everyone would be happier. The customers who would othe...
Jump to postSo, are any of these "matching" aircraft type flight numbers purposely chosen, or just coincidence?
I would discount delivery flights, which I am sure are for marketing purposes.
"The 80-million-yuan Daxing airport, currently under construction, is expected to be completed by 2018; formal operations are scheduled to begin in 2019."
80 million yuan seems awfully cheap (about USD$12 million). Maybe they meant billion?
Aloha! This is a question for the flight attendants that frequent this site... My wife and I are not frequent fliers, but we do our share of flying...mostly between New York and Shanghai (she's Shanghainese...I'm from Connecticut). I have seen before on these boards that F/As hate it when pax stack ...
Jump to postThe only float plane I have ever been on, a Cessna C208B Caravan Amphibian, had wheels in the floats. I am not sure if the wheels retracted on takeoff from land, but it definitely had wheels. I did learn that those planes are steered mostly through differential braking (rudder can be used at higher ...
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/DIJKKIJK" class="quote" target="_blank">DIJKKIJK</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Aren't the flight data recorder boxes bu...
Jump to postTailwind Air Service inaugurated service <acronym title="Bridgeport - Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial (BDR), USA - Connecticut">BDR</acronym>-QNY back in August...I was their first fare-paying passenger. The flight from <acronym title="Bridgeport - Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial (BDR), USA - Connecticut">BDR</...
Jump to postWow, I don't have any children, but I can't imagine the heartbreak a couple feels when they lose their infant child, and as others have said above, it's got to be traumatic to not just the crew, but also the nearby passengers, especially when it is so young a child. Being in an aircraft, there is on...
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/nws2002" class="quote" target="_blank">nws2002</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Generally the <acronym title="Safair (South ...
Jump to postAloha everyone! I've been mulling this question for a few years, and I've debated the wisdom of posting it on this forum, which is frequented by numerous industry insiders, but I think this happened long enough ago that no one will get in trouble; I won't supply any details about the airline, origin...
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/D+L+X" class="quote" target="_blank">D L X</a> (<a href="#76" class="quote">Reply 76</a>):<br/><i>What's a kmph? Kilometer miles per hour? </i><...
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/Leezyjet" class="quote" target="_blank">Leezyjet</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> 250hPa is somew...
Jump to postI can't find the thread, but I think I asked a similar question a number of years ago about cabin noise...specifically quantifying the sources of noise (i.e. what % of noise comes from the engines, ventilation system, slipstream, etc...), and at least one response said that the aircraft manufacturer...
Jump to postLots of my "firsts" were when I was a very little boy in the early '80s, and I have no memories of those flights, just an incomplete collection of old boarding passes and receipts and other oddball info my father wrote on them, so I don't know which of them were really my firsts, so I will start my ...
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/Brick" class="quote" target="_blank">Brick</a> (<a href="#23" class="quote">Reply 23</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> He/she was talking ...
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/Jamake1" class="quote" target="_blank">Jamake1</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>Quoting B2468 (Reply 22): Also, what do sU...
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/aloges" class="quote" target="_blank">aloges</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Quoting Mortyman (Reply 1): What is Pmua and P...
Jump to postI am wishing for <acronym title="Bridgeport - Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial (BDR), USA - Connecticut">BDR</acronym>-<acronym title="Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZSPD), China">PVG</acronym> nonstop on <acronym title="China Eastern Airlines">MU</acronym>. /yeah, yeah, totally unrealistic...but i...
Jump to postI had an opportunity to fly the A380 on SQ26 <acronym title="Singapore - Changi (SIN / WSSS), Singapore">SIN</acronym>-<acronym title="Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - ...
Jump to postBack in June 1998, my mother and I flew <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> <acronym title="Windsor Locks (Hartford / Springfield) - Bradley International (BDL / KBDL), USA - Connecticut">BDL</acronym>-<acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (Orchard Field) (ORD / KORD), USA -...
Jump to postThanks everyone for your input! Not that I ever plan to travel to these places, but in the lucky event I do, I have found that it always helps to know how the locals say it...especially the Russian place names...I've been pronouncing Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo all wrong! (always get the "o" wrong)....
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/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Thanks!...
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/seb146" class="quote" target="_blank">seb146</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Quoting B2468 (Thread starter): Kyrgyzstan I h...
Jump to postHi all, I was hoping some native speakers could help me with the pronunciation of some various places/airports around the world: Ezeiza Guarulhos Congonhas Vnukovo Naypyidaw Yangon Qom Homs Dhahran N'Djamena Kyrgyzstan Ulan Bator Hohhot Longueuil Thanks for any help you can provide! I apologize if s...
Jump to postClinched "Q" this year...otherwise progress has been pretty dead since 2012... A: <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> B: <acronym title="Windsor Locks (Hartford / Springfield) - Bradley Int...
Jump to postIf passport pages can no longer be added, will the US State Dept start issuing 48-page passports as standard from now on? I always thought it was kind of dumb that 48-page passports were not the norm. I had passport pages added to my 24-page passport back in Oct 2009, when the service was free...if ...
Jump to postMy flights in 2015: 7 AUG 15: <acronym title="Bridgeport - Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial (BDR), USA - Connecticut">BDR</acronym>-QNY Tailwind - Cessna 208 Caravan Amphibian N208JP (First Fare-paying Passenger!!) 14 AUG 15: <acronym title="Bridgeport - Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial (BDR), USA - Connecticut">...
Jump to postThe most "exotic" for me, and here I mean "unusual" would be QNY, the East River Seaport in New York City. A runway in motion, whilst landing among ferry boats and freighters right over the Brooklyn Bridge and with the most spectacular views of Manhattan...doesn't get better than that! Otherwise, th...
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I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but what do "ATM" and "MAP" mean in this thread? I saw it a few times, and I have no clue.
Thanks!
Thanks for your replies! I am not sure I should have posted this in tech/ops, but the folks in CivAv kind of scare me... A couple of you have mentioned noise, especially in the upper-tail (above 5R) of the 747... <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face=...
Jump to postHi, If this topic has been discussed before, I apologize and please delete. This question is for the flight deck and cabin crews that have used onboard crew rests on long-haul flights. There are plenty of photos of the various types of crew rests on various aircraft, from simple blocked-off rows of ...
Jump to postClapping seems to just be random. I do remember as a child back in the early 1980s, I used to fly frequently with my father <acronym title="Fort Myers - Southwest Florida International (Regional) (RSW / KRSW), USA - Florida">RSW</acronym>-NYC-<acronym title="Fort Myers - Southwest Florida Internatio...
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/727LOVER" class="quote" target="_blank">727LOVER</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>Take Ambien for the first time</i><...
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/qf789" class="quote" target="_blank">qf789</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="AMC Aviation (Egypt)">9V</acro...
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Jump to postIs the density of the load on the aircraft part of the reason that freighters seem to have list prices higher than their passenger counterparts? Does the deck need stronger reinforcement on the freighters?
Why else would a freighter be more expensive that a pax version?
"Nasty Light-plane Crash At Tokyo Chofu" Did anyone else read this as "Natty-Light plane crash"? Back on topic, though, yeah, fire is serious business in Japan where a lot of wood is used in residential construction, and the houses are very close together due to the population density. If the fire d...
Jump to postWow, thanks to everyone for your responses! It is great to consider things that might not normally come up in a conversation about something, and this topic is certainly one that I have never encountered before. StarAC17, good point about the sound...never thought of that...it must have been scary t...
Jump to postHi all, I am figuring that many A.netters are not just aviation geeks but are also really interested in transportation in general...it's successes and failures. I (for some odd reason) just finished viewing "Raise the Titanic" (1980), based on the Clive Cussler novel of the same name. Of course, the...
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/ryu2" class="quote" target="_blank">ryu2</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Yeah, definitely the travel agent's fault, but the...
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/rta" class="quote" target="_blank">rta</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i>Quoting Miami (Reply 37): Dude.. If you can do <ac...
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/Miami" class="quote" target="_blank">Miami</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Yeah, I second <acr...
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