No one will say it but I bet this shakeup is the price the FAA (the government including DOD) wanted to allow an increase in 737 production which is the lifeline for Boeing. What increase in 737 production would that be? They are capped at 38/month indefinitely. They aren't doing that right now as ...
Jump to postHere is the preliminary NTSB report: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/193768/pdf It looks like this may be related to United’s specific configuration? Perhaps more accurately: related to the available option for factory configuration to CAT IIIA capabi...
Jump to postMust not have been gusty crosswinds that day or this could have been a more serious incident. Stiff rudder pedals aren’t sexy enough for media to pick up in the news cycle, I guess. The way I first heard about it is when a CNBC guest AA captain mentioned it in passing while they replayed the video ...
Jump to postNTSB is investigating a UA B38M that landed in EWR with the rudder pedals stuck. Initial investigation reports a servo failure at cold temperatures: https://avherald.com/h?article=515dab89&opt=0 The NTSB statement is interesting. They (UA presumably) could repeat the malfunction on the test fli...
Jump to postJuan Browne's Blancolirio Channel video. Good review of the basics, along with the fuel system on the Challenger. https://youtu.be/4KIaXdxa9yY?si=X0Ph25fJYHPqDK8c Juan does mention one theory that hasn’t been touched on much, if at all, and that is the possibility of a single engine failure and the...
Jump to postSeriously Boeing it’s not to late to put in eicas system in either for gods sake Seriously, no airline in its right mind is going to maintain two separate pilot pools to fly the 737. The emergency procedures and checklists would be different enough for NGs, MAX8s, and MAX9s with no EICAS compared t...
Jump to postIf he is a current Boeing employee why didn.t he intervene or let the alarmbells go off.? Easy to stay on the sideline and do nothing and know step forward after this incident happened. Yeah he is a real hero now... Because that can be a career-ending move?? A career-ending move, but a lifesaving m...
Jump to postI was always wondering if the plane would have been safer if that plug was actually an exit? Wouldn't passengers be able to evacuate faster with more exits? Do you think it was cost-cutting by airlines to not configure it as an exit? It may be that if that was done it would screw up the certificati...
Jump to postWill this incident affect the ETOPS capability of the 737 MAX? I would think the FAA would be all over reviewing it. All the dynamics change when an aircraft has to drop to 10000 feet when crossing an ocean. ETOPS specifications already take this into account. Cannot get more than x minutes from th...
Jump to postAlleged image of one of United's 737 MAX 9s found with loose door plug screws. 2 screws are not screwed all the way in. Source: https://twitter.com/ByERussell/status/1744460136855294106/ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDWRH6OXEAEMu-l?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 The black coiled item toward the botto...
Jump to postI found it interesting in the press conference that the NTSB spokeswoman made a key point to refer to the plug as either a "plug" or a "door plug" and not a "door" but then she referred to it as a "door" several times later, both unprompted and in response to...
Jump to postDoes a plugged emergency exit still have a door there which is covered with a panel? If it does , does this door not secure itself during pressurisation like the overwing exists do? See this YT video for an explanation of the mid-cabin emergency exit plug on 737s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...
Jump to postluckyone wrote:But what is going on with Southwest IT??
Seabear wrote:Deja vu all over again.
The aircraft had been delivered to Coulson just last year after a retrofit taking almost 50000 hours. Sad that so much time dedicated to the modification has been destroyed so early. It takes 6 years to refit a 737 for fire fighting duty? How can that possibly be cost effective? Well comes down to ...
Jump to postVenn555 wrote:The aircraft had been delivered to Coulson just last year after a retrofit taking almost 50000 hours. Sad that so much time dedicated to the modification has been destroyed so early.
The Controller did not "break" any rules by clearing SWA for take-off - that was poor judgment (which I guess could be argued was an event in itself since they did not apply good judgment). But anyway, a separation rule was "broken" (or an event occurred) AFTER SWA became airbor...
Jump to postThis only says what activities cannot be authorized in or over the critical areas in certain weather conditions. It does not answer wjcandee's question. Is the runway in the critical areas? Yes, in the localizer critical area. OK thanks. But see exception (2) for the localizer critical area: "...
Jump to postI’m a controller myself, and I think blame goes 100% on that tower controller. Although it sounds to me like bad judgement by the tower controller (and SW), I have yet to see anyone cite an FAR, FAA rule, other regulation, etc. that the controller violated by clearing SW for takeoff. Pretty much th...
Jump to postLCDFlight wrote:Was WN being a prima Donna when they took the runway before they were ready?
trnswrld wrote:I’m a controller myself, and I think blame goes 100% on that tower controller.
trnswrld wrote:How is it a large aircraft has crashed and we still have no pictures?!
I did actually get that from the approach plate, but what about an aircraft going down the runway while you're flying a CATIII autoland? Isn't that going to mess with the signals? Isn't the runway itself within the ILS Critical Zone? 1. LOCALIZER CRITICAL AREA a. Do not authorize vehicle or aircraf...
Jump to postThe preliminary report is on the NTSB website as of my checking a couple minutes ago. It is quite a read and states, quite frankly, pretty much exactly what I expected it to. Beyond that, I'll reserve comment at this time and see what others think. The prelim report is found here. https://data.ntsb...
Jump to postUnited still selling flights operated by ZW is disingenuous, but if they can say ‘we will operate those flights, but are still shuffling around the regionals and will have this sorted in the next couple of months’, I think that’s less egregious than a farcically unrealistic schedule based on almost...
Jump to postNot sure if this is 100% accurate, but gives a good visual overview of essentially what happened. https://youtu.be/nsFIHKkN2oU Why was AA given clearance to cross 31L so early? JFK is a busy airport and both 31L and 4L were in use. I would have thought ground would have had them hold short of 31L a...
Jump to postIt’s unbelievable the AA crew could have missed their taxi assignment this badly. Being told to hold at 31L at Kilo and find yourself short of 4L on Joliet is mind boggling. ATC should have caught their position but for them to be so badly out of it is unexplainable. Sad… Wouldn't AA have had the a...
Jump to postIs there a FAR stating that use of the NOTAM system is required for any phase of flight? Yes you are required to know about outages along your route and at your destination. The NOTAMs will also tell you about restricted airspace The ground stop this morning was ordered by the FAA out of that cauti...
Jump to postPVD523 wrote:cathay747 wrote:I have always known NOTAM's to be "Notice to Airmen"...when did that change to "Notice to Air Missions"???
December 2, 2021.
32andBelow wrote:The airlines will just blame the gov and no one will get compensation.
SuseJ772 wrote:goboeing wrote:The entire NOTAM system is a joke, separate from this outage.
You got that right. I tend to agree with this article: https://www.flyingmag.com/why-notams-are-garbage/
These are typical forces, which were required to steer a truck from the 1950s without power steering. Not what you expect on an airliner, built in the 2020s. Outdated, dangerous design. Were the large forces required consistent with the airspeed at the time? There are cases of aircrew causing struc...
Jump to postWhatever limitations Southwest still has for things like red eye flights would be in there operations and planning systems. I was part of the team that responded to the RFP that resulted in southwest moving to Altea, and I know for a fact that overnight flights and interlining were core requirement...
Jump to postWN really needs to start offering trip insurance options to passengers who book WN flights, especially after the operational meltdown that WN is currently facing. Some of the other airlines in the U.S., including AA, DL, UA, AS, G4, B6, HA, F9, and NK already offer trip insurance. There are also pl...
Jump to posthttps://news.yahoo.com/peru-airport-says-firetruck-arranged-185711135.html Interesting. Sounds like finger pointing already. Airport saying ARFF had clearance from ATC. ATC saying they had a clearance, but not a clearance to enter the runway. Going to get interesting… Already interesting. The airpo...
Jump to postTVNWZ wrote:Ground Control may have cleared him to cross. We don’t know, yet.
Please watch the video and read the comments from local pilots, whose experience is exactly the same as the incident Cessna’s track. I did watch the video and read some of the comments. As a controller who takes handoffs 6 days a week from Orlando, I can assure you that on north opp days, aircraft ...
Jump to postListening to the MCO tower and the departure radio traffic with the Cessna and Delta I posted above it sounds to me like a simple screwup by the tower or with the coordination between the east and west towers. Am I missing something here?
Jump to postSorry if this is a dup but didn't see it posted above -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--nneKVaNC4
Yes there was pilot deviation. It was to avoid a disaster.
You have never heard Concorde on take off. Supposedly whatever engine choice they come up with will not need an afterburner. That's claimed to help with the noise problem as well as fuel consumption. Also, better aerodynamics are supposed to help with fuel consumption; and the airframe will not hav...
Jump to postFOMO may be a factor here. If AA's "non-refundable" deposit is just marketing peanuts or has a ton of strings attached and gets them in near the head of the line in the unlikely event the thing actually works then it can be seen as an acceptable risk investment.
Jump to postIf they meet all the required medical tests, then there isnt an issue in my opinion. Maybe I would feel safer if pilots over 60 got more medical tests than the rest? How often to pilots get medicals done? Medical exams are not preventative or even diagnostic. They are screening. Getting screened a ...
Jump to postwhile DOT Secretary Buttigieg opinioned such a move was unlikely to help much. And how much might it cost the airlines? A few weeks ago on CNBC Scott Kirby, when asked about raising pilot retirement age to help with the shortage, said that at United on any given day 36% of age 64 pilots are out wit...
Jump to postJK.......Impressive. The whole demo would have been similar to this classic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRKm6PG918 BTW, in 2014 Farnborough made Boeing drop the low altitude right bank after the touch and go from the demo as dangerous. The manufacturers definitely do these demos to impress ...
Jump to postJust send the required navigational data direct to the aircraft. Modern aircraft are automatically communicating with their maintenance bases and are sending and receiving data all the time. So it is really an anachronism to rely on vital data for navigation, transmitted by voice radio. The experie...
Jump to postBasically, why don't the LNAV/VNAV procedures use radar under 2500 feet if available? The big drawback to radar altimeters is that not all airplanes have them. I assume that's why some/many approach procedures specify barometric minima. Maybe the procedures don't allow for using RA, even when it is...
Jump to postJust my lack of knowledge maybe. Per the report yeah, the minima were baro - but I'm more questioning why that's the case if there is a more accurate radar available. Basically, why don't the LNAV/VNAV procedures use radar under 2500 feet if available? Good question. I'm assuming RNP requires using...
Jump to postI assumed they'd switch to the radio altimeter once below the 2500 foot above ground range (especially since that started feeding the PFD then) They never had visual on the airport during the initial attempt. I gather the LNAV/VNAV minima they had to use for this approach were baro and not RA, righ...
Jump to postMaybe one future recommendation also - Some kind of alert if the radio and and baro disagree by too much? I'm just thinking that would give more time to safely abort an approach if an altimeter source is unreliable. The barometric altimeter gives the altitude above mean sea level. The radio altimet...
Jump to postI assumed they'd switch to the radio altimeter once below the 2500 foot above ground range (especially since that started feeding the PFD then) They never had visual on the airport during the initial attempt. I gather the LNAV/VNAV minima they had to use for this approach were baro and not RA, righ...
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