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Re: Packs: On or Off?

At my company "packs off" is the standard take-off setting for the A320 family. I'm not on that fleet and I know they are also allowed to do pack on take-offs, I just don't know when they would choose to do so. Also they used "single-pack on ground" and "pack flow low" ...

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Re: What are Sully and Skiles doing now? (2018)

So, airline pilots shouldn’t be required to be licensed as AIRLINE PILOT? Do you really think 250hours, or 6 weeks of full-time work qualifies one to be an airline pilot. Would you go to a doctor with 250 hours of experience or employ a defense lawyer with a total of 250 billable hours? No wonder p...

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Re: Lufthansa spaceflex jumpseat

The B737 NG/MAX doesn't need the direct Canon-view for FAs because they are grandfathered into the old B737 type certificate. And when the B737-100 was approved this regulation didn't exist yet.

Cheers,
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Re: If you had $500,0000,000 for any Aircraft....

I would pull a Convair 880 out of the desert, have it completely restored to factory fresh standard. The inside will be configured as an apartment, I will use it to travel the globe.

The rest of the money is needed to pay the fuel it takes and all the noise fines I'm gonna get

Cheers,
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Re: ATR 72 Apron Safety

I've never flown the ATR, so I'm not 100% on all if this. But still pretty certain. The left engine on the ATR doesn't have a propeller brake, so if the engine was indeed on, the propeller would have been spinning at, at least, idle-feather speed; so I guess around 200rpm. If you didn't see the left...

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Re: Deadheading Pilots

If a pilot suffers a serious, debilitating medical episode in-flight (stroke, seizure, etc), aside from immediately landing, what is the procedure? I guess the specifics are depending on the operator, but I can give you some insight on how a situation like that would be handled at my company. I'm a...

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Re: Deadheading Pilots

Exactly like Woodreau said, there is non-revving (commuting, likely because you don't live at your base) and deadheading (part of your duty plan, also called proceeding or positioning). With my airlines check-in system all ID-traveling passengers (so both deadheading and non-revving) are identified ...

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Re: Austrian Airlines Brand Refresh and New Livery

You are right, it gave the picture of a medical prescription with four blue antibiotic pills.And I never understood that "Austrian arrows" idea but now that it is almost over, I can finally say that they have understood it themselves.Now, about the new livery, it is certainly an improveme...

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Re: Increased thrust close to rotation

Well, just throwing it out there, but a little story of something that happened to me once: We were accelerating down the runway, when going through around 100kt the captain noted (I was pilot flying) that the left hand engine for some reason suddenly developed more than the previously calculated T/...

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Re: Austrian Airlines Brand Refresh and New Livery

The font is awful. I particularly hate how it says "AUSTRIAN" rather than "Austrian Airlines". AA does the same and that bothers me too. The only airline that really pulls off using the collective noun on their livery is Swiss. The font is pretty close to the previous one, it ju...

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Re: LH Group Introduces New Intra-Europe Seats

One article I read stated the seats have are pre-reclined for everybody. I really like that and think it's an improvement, because nobody reclines the current Recaro seats, ever. Also the "pocket" will move from knee-lever up to chest-level and by doing so the legroom is improved. And for ...

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Re: Austrian Airlines New Livery

You just beat me to it :D I actually really like it, would have preferred if the red on the engines had stayed, but considering the hideous blue or the uninspired "myAustrian" I really think this a great improvement. On a different note, I think the speed at which livery updates are brough...

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Re: How does a gate checked bag ‘go missing’?

What happens somewhat frequently on my fleet, is that bags are forgotten in the hold. 95% of flights we only use the aft baggage compartment for passenger baggage, the forward hold usually only holds the crew baggage. Every now and then, passenger baggage also has to be loaded in the forward hold du...

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Re: deicing questions

Well, you and I could adhere to such a policy, but I'm not sure a large percentage of the forum users will/can. There is a lot of non-professionals here, which is a good thing, but at the same time they probably have no idea that the question they ask may be answered differently in different parts o...

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Re: deicing questions

And I checked, an Advisory Circular is really a FAA thing. The next time please keep in mind that not everybody on this forum lives in the US and is governed by the FAA. There are plenty of differences between FAA and EASA regulations and obviously this wing-check from the cabin is one of them. Gree...

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Re: deicing questions

I'm sorry, but I've never even heard of an Advisor Circular, nor do I know what that is. May be some FAA terminology/thing I'm not familiar with... Either way, my company specifically designs a computer-based training for pilots to click through every year before the icing-season starts. Afterwards ...

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Re: deicing questions

Many (most?) carriers require that pilots inspect the wings immediately pre-departure in certain types of active precipitation. It’s typically done from the cabin. I'm a pilot for a large European legacy, never heard of such a procedure nor have I ever seen anybody do it... After the de/anti-icing ...

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Re: Cabin Safety Rules on US vs. European Airlines

I noted a difference between fasten seatbelt lights. In US they keep the lights on much longer, but do not care, if a passenger stands up. In Europe they get furious on that. Very much depends on the airline. LH for example is very strict about this, their policy is "Seatbelt on" also mea...

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Re: DHC-8 reverse thrust?

I also work for a European Q400 operator. We use reverse when it's useful. Short runway (like less then 2000m) or to get an early exit/avoid back-track to shorten taxi time. We also use reverse for power-backs on ocasion. But generally speaking, even the disc position is to much braking 9 out of 10 ...

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Re: Hand Propping a Dash 8

Considering your username the FO might have been me or any of my colleagues. On our Dash-8 fleet it is standard procedure to turn the propellers to check them for signs of oil leakage, grease leakage or cracks in the blades. All propeller blades have to be inspected every turn-around, so they are sp...

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Re: "Only Pilots-In-Command Are To Be Trained For Ground Taxi"

I've taxied a Dash-8-Q400 from the right, no tiller. You use differential braking and differential power. It's a bit of a pain and not so comfortable for the pax, but definitly builds skill.

Greets,
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Re: "Only Pilots-In-Command Are To Be Trained For Ground Taxi"

I've worked for two large European legacies, on both airlines it is company SOP for the left pilot to always taxi. On some planes it is logical (tiller only on the left) on others it's policy only. I don't know if it was done to keep it simple across the fleets or if there is more to it.

Greets,
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Re: Who operated which engine on the A300?

Thanks, the 0 and 2 thing also works for the older B2 and B4 models, this is exactly what I was looking for

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Who operated which engine on the A300?

Hey everybody,

sorry if this has been discussed before, sadly I can not find a list, neither here nor anywhere else on the internet.
Which airlines operated the A300/310 with CF-6 engines? Who chose JT-9D, respectivly PW4000s?

Thanks and greets,
Cedric

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Re: Barometer settings

Yes, you are exactly right. In cruise flight airliners are assigned “Flight Levels“, which are essentually altitudes in relation to a 1013.25 hPa baro setting; minus the last two zeros. So FL350 is 35000ft on 1013.25. Depending on A/C type the Instruments will display 1013 (29.92) or Std after setti...

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Re: AA expands basic economy to transatlantic flights

Problem with that is that for every flight you got a different number of basic economy and regular economy passengers, but you can't have a different number of basic/regular economy seats for every flight. If the flight is full and your number of basic economy bookings does not equal the number of ...

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Re: Create your own airline

Alright, this seems like fun, I'll chime in: A little back-story: After the demise of Air Berlin the central European market is dominated by the LH Group, the DACH region in particular. While there is still a choice of LCC and Charter carriers, there is no second strong legacy-style major carrier fo...

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Good "Create your own airline" PC game

Hey guys and gals, I thought I come to you for some advice. I'm looking for a good "create your own airline" PC game. I know there are a few of those games out there, but the ones I saw didn't really fit my definition of "good". Preferably it should be as realistic as possible. I...

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Re: Rumor: LH might introduce a new/revised livery in 2018

Now confirmed, picture also visible on LHs intranet eBase.

I also hear new uniforms will roll out later this year, to match the change.

Greets,
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Re: Why Austrian won't fly to MAD?

I think you miss the point T1A is making. The traffic is there indeed, but the LHGroup decided that that traffic is better served with the EW product. One of the many advantages of an airline group with different products is that one can choose the right product for a route. OS is offering VIE-MAD ...

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Re: Why Austrian won't fly to MAD?

Because after market research it was concluded that this route would be better served with EW than OS within the LH-Group. It probably is more of a leisure heavy route that doesn't promise the requiered returns for a legacy carrier. If serving MAD would make them more money then they do right now wi...

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Re: Aircraft Stabilized

I assume the checklist also need to have been complete ? +/- 5 kts is far too narrow in turbulent conditions. No, checklist completed is no stabilization requirement for us. It was in flight school IFR training, but at my operator it is not required. Yes, you are correct +/-5kt is very narrow. Ther...

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Re: Aircraft Stabilized

Yes 1000ft is our gate as well, with two exaptions. Speed stabilization may be achieved in 500ft AGL if a speed schedule was required by approach control that does not allow for a 1000ft speed stabilization. And in case of swing-over/side-step approaches onto a parallel runway lateral stabilization ...

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Re: LH retiring most (or all?) A340-600?

Something is up with the A346 is LH is retiring them early. My guess is, it's a special contract with RR. Initially the engine mx costs on the A346 were horrible. So much that in the slow-down after the 2008 stock market crash LH was about to park less then 5 year old birds. Everbody always goes on...

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Re: Aircraft Stabilized

I wouldn't know of any ICAO definition. At my airline our OM-A specifys stabilized as: - on vertical and horizontal profile (on an ILS max one dot diviation on either) - final configuration (flaps, gear, speedbrakes) - on speed (target +/- 5kt) - corresponding thrust/power - steady attitude - rate o...

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Re: Passenger thinks AirAsia's uniforms are revealing to the point of being 'disgusting

To my mind this isn't "uniform" by its very definition uniform should result in all the crew looking more or less the same. Here in the UK cabin crew uniforms tend to have very few variations, some appear to have none at all, look at a VS crew walking through a terminal, the ladies look n...

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Re: Passenger thinks AirAsia's uniforms are revealing to the point of being 'disgusting

Nope, as it is mandatory for the employees to wear the uniform it is up to the employer to decide their design. And this must take the comfort of the the employee and well as the feelings of the customers into consideration. I personally think long trousers should be standard for male and female cr...

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Re: ATC: "Descend with the glide"

Back to the starters question. At my home airport VIE we quite ofter get such a "descend with the glide approved" clearence when approach vectored us really close the field. Their radar minimum is 2600ft, but now they've given us a vector where the 2600ft would put us above the G/S. That w...

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Re: Rumor: LH might introduce a new/revised livery in 2018

If it's really that darker blue and the silver crane as shown on the A350 rendering I've got to say, I acctually quite like it. Provided they didn't go for that Joon-livery for the rest of the aircraft. On the actual A350 picture it's also visible that the new crane design will probably adjust the c...

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Re: IAG buys NIKI for 20m EUR

LH/EW makes ex-AB staff apply at EW (privious experience is taken into account when integrated into the EW GmbH CBA) that is correct. AB wasn't bought as a whole and has no valid AOC, therefore having them apply is at least kind of understandable. LGW staff is kept on 100% because this company is bo...

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Re: IAG buys NIKI for 20m EUR

Sorry to say, but if all of the above is true, I don't like this deal. Founding a new Austrian based company means the current Niki employees will have to re-apply for their own jobs. They will be offered new contracts, which will most likely be worse than their current CBA, which already isn't very...

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Re: steeper flight path to appease not so locals.

While, as a pilot, I'm not with the NIMBYs on everything, I can kind of see a point here. Approaches into FRA have the worst decent profiles of any airport I know. I'm regularly vectored to a 30NM+ final in 4000ft. Controllers demand very high decent rates early on. While I know the reason for that ...

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Re: Air China 787 loses half of its electrical power

The wording in the AvHerald report is a little iffy for my taste. It doesn't say “in flight shut down“ of one engine or anything like that, so I'm not quite sure they were one engine out. The discription of the symptoms fits exactly what I experienced on my last simulator check-ride. We had the Righ...

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Re: DH/A and MAP

Procedure wise the Missed Approach Point in the point where the final approach segment ends and the missed approach segment of the approach starts. Now you need to distinguish between the MDA (minumum descent altitude) of a non-precision approach and the DH/A of precision appoach. On a NPA you will ...

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Re: A320, autopilot soon after takeoff

In the 320, once you pull the thrust levers from the TOGA or FLEX detent to the CLB detent at acceleration altitude in the takeoff climb, you don’t normally touch or move the thrust levers until 20/30 feet in the flare just before landing. Auto thrust controls the thrust the whole time. I know this...

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Re: Question About Eurowings Ops

Most AB birds have been painted in EW colors. It's not guaranteed, but that's what's to be expected.

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Re: Question About Eurowings Ops

Neither the Niki nor the TUI jets have EW colors yet. They will both most likely be in AB colors. Also they will not be operated by EW itself. It's not the plan of LH to fully integrate any AOC into the EW AOC. The plan is to keep it all seperate on an AOC/Company level but give the impression of a ...

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Re: When's the last time your captain used full power for takeoff?

On the Q400 we have to do one MTOP (Bombardier Word for TOGA) every day. So at my airline we do them in every first flight of the day. Actually on the Q400 you do them a lot. Every TO in icing conditions below the acceleration altitude has to be performed as NTOP for example.

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Re: Ever been afraid of a certain aircraft type?

KentB27 wrote: 11725Flyer wrote: Anything with a propeller makes me nervous.. You're not alone. A lot of the flying public is scared of turboprops. I'm not sure if it's how visible the propeller blades are while they're spinning or what, or maybe how noisy they are. I guess the reason most likely i...

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Re: Lufthansa might change Long-Haul order

Do Lufthansa have a plane on the order books to replace their A340-600 fleet? They always said that the A346 routes that were not performing so well would get the A359 and the ones that are always busy will get the B779, of course LH has also options to bump the A359s to A35Js if they like and need...

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