I yield. But shouldn’t the avionics been generating some sort of alert as well? Did they just ignore? If they were below glide slope, EGPWS would have alerted “Glide Slope, Glide Slope”; nothing on LOC deviation, though. If the glide slope deviation continues and gets further below, “Pull Up, Pull ...
Jump to postBoth cell phones and walkie-talkies use radio waves. I would say it isn't an unsolvable problem, but it's also not a straight-forward one either. You need some assurance that the energy being radiated is at a safe level and remains effective without interfering with valid uses of the spectrum. To d...
Jump to postOne thing to straighten out—it’s a Turbo Commander, descendent of the Aero Commander line. Gulfstream bought up the Aero Commander line-up from the single-engines to the Jet Commander. It’s not a current Gulfstream.
Jump to postA quick search shows the B-29 cost about 50% more than the Manhattan Project. https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/b-29-project-expensive/ https://www.brookings.edu/the-costs-of-the-manhattan-project/ https://nuclearcompanion.com/data/how-much-did-the-boeing-b-29-superfortress-cost/ http://...
Jump to postThe example, as I take it in post #1, is the building instead of individual metering, has one meter and the cost of electricity is divided up. What incentive is there for some dwellers to save electricity, if any the cost wastage will be divided up by all the residents?
Jump to postWhatever happens on the outside, happens on the inside said a trapshooting friend who was a CO. He told me inmates would scare COs by telling what school their children attended, where their wives or husbands worked.
Jump to postI’m trying to think of an economic reason why sharing the bill results in lower costs. Try going out to dinner with 9 friends, you order the chef’s salad and iced tea while the couple at the other end order a bottle of wine and filet mignon and ask to split the check. Tragedy of the commons
Jump to postShorter flights due to less range inherent in the design. It takes flight time in cruise to make the fuel savings. -200s do lots of TATL and HI flying, the -300 not so much.
Jump to postThis reminds of the Churchill quote, “this is silliness up with which I will not put”. What is wrong “dead”?
Jump to postI had a chief pilot who flew P-51s out of Tinian or one of those bases escorting B-29s. As soon the rumors started about destroying a city with one bomb, he started building sailboats for lagoon yacht club he set up.
Jump to postProbably because the radio is secondary to maintaining control of the aircraft? This looks like a giant nothing burger. The deviation could have been caused with one serious gust of wind. Radar picks it up..pilot correcting and deciding. The ATC tower controller's tone made it sound worse than the ...
Jump to postfallap wrote:Well, RIP
There’s a pilot over on PPW who went thru the eclipse at F450 in a G600 over Mexico. They were at F470 but the WB-57s were at 470 and F500 in a block. Doing steep turn practice at 450 and M.90
Jump to postThere was a corporate couple,he a pilot, she a F/A. They specialized working for the crazy, difficult owners who had high turnover of crews. “Here’s the deal, we guarantee x time; no complaints, here’s our bill and contract”. Very expensive for the times.
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:BBDFlyer wrote:757223 wrote:
Interesting. That could very well be the case. Doesn't WN have the HUD installed only on the left (Captain) seat?
Correct, only on the Captain side.
Why?.
The reason why ILS4 at LGA must be handflown is because there are two roads that pass right by the runway, Runway Drive and Grand Central Parkway. When vehicles pass especially trucks, you get fluctuations in the ILS indications. When handflown, it is easy to continue flying on a steady course and ...
Jump to postNot common because there’s not that many couples at the same operator, but it happens. We had a couple in the Reserves, but Sullivan Law prevented them from flying together. They’ve been at UA together for years , she is way senior, IIRC
Jump to postBecause Iran is one of those wacky places that uses an extra :30 minutes from Z. There time is Z + 3:30.just to be this wacky contingent includes Newfoundland, India, parts of Australia, so I’m not being pejorative to any specific group.
Jump to postI had very similar experiences. I started at a nearby CT airport, fueling planes, washing customer’s planes, sweeping hangar floors. It was run by a former CPT instructor from the war years along with a P-47 pilot. Later, after UPT , being a Guardsman, I flew for a couple corporations. One of my chi...
Jump to postCapitalism plus local government zoning regulations. This is what you get. You run out of space and you have more money chasing after fewer resources. Also, such trends are not new in San Francisco. The media keeps talking about the "mass exodus" from California but houses are still being...
Jump to postNot overpriced, more like “priced for quick sale”. But love all the posts everywhere bemoaning “housing is too expensive” as prices spiral ever higher. If it’s too expensive, the prices would be falling.
Jump to postfor just $1,700,000.00 you can get a cozy starter home thats just 384 yes 384 square feet (about the size of a small hotel room) You must go to some very interesting hotels if you think 384 square feet is a small hotel room. That house looks a bit small but still livable if you don’t have children....
Jump to postI am a little confused. The first F-15s arrived at Langley in 1976 which is when it was first put into active service. The last F-100F from the Guard was retired in 1979 but they had not been stationed at Langley since the late 1950s. So, I as an amateur, I am kind of curious how this encounter wou...
Jump to postI am a little confused. The first F-15s arrived at Langley in 1976 which is when it was first put into active service. The last F-100F from the Guard was retired in 1979 but they had not been stationed at Langley since the late 1950s. So, I as an amateur, I am kind of curious how this encounter wou...
Jump to postI just went thru CLT (AA concourse C), for the most awful. I haven’t been there in 12 years but personal travel south of the city forced me to fly AA. Wow, construction, confusing signage or no signage, rental car garage had few directions but several elevator rides. At one point I was faced with tw...
Jump to postI always understood that the B-29 cost more than the Manhattan Project, not sure where I read but I believe it.
Jump to postI’m banging my head against the wall and my spoon on the table, but IATA codes are usually pretty unusable except for major cities. ICAO codes are more informative. Bandung, West Java has two airports WICC and WICA. WI tells me it’s Indonesia, C may not mean much sharing CC and CA tells me they’re r...
Jump to postOne question: Did you notice the change in temperatures? Where I was in northern VT there was a very noticeable drop in temperature as the sunlight dimmed, and there was an increase in wind too. This to me added to the primal/visceral aspects of the event. Despite the earlier heavy cloud, it was pr...
Jump to postThat could not have been very relevant since the F-100F and F-15 A/B only overlapped in US service by like 2 years. The F-100F was in Guard only units so that pilot probably had a lot more time in that aircraft than the Active Duty guy who was new or just barely converted to the F-15. It would have...
Jump to postStarting with the CS500 would have put Bombardier dead in A/B’s gunsights. The point of the 100/300 was to offer a plane that wouldn’t go head-on against the duopoly. It was designed to be a regional plane with great field performance to serve small to mid-sized cities. It wasn’t designed for long, ...
Jump to postNo guns, AIM-9s wouldn’t guide on a Wrightradial engine exhaust.
Jump to postBeen discussed in another thread. It’s not underpowered, it meets all the required performance standards. Being a “quad” it does perform differently than a twin for the basic reasons of how OEI is calculated. A quad actually needs a higher climb gradient (3%) than a twin (2.5%) after an engine failu...
Jump to postThat’s a prelim, wait til the Board releases the final. Pretty difficult to address more automation when the FAA TERPS office prohibited using today’s automation. How much time do you have on wet runways or flying ILSs in frontal zones?
Jump to postYes, but the pilot with superior EM isn’t a guaranteed winner. Theres a lot more to combat, close-in or BVR, than performance specs. I’ve seen, heck been in the back seat, of an F-100F with a gun solution against a Lt in an F-15. Didn’t stay there long as the Eagle went vertical, but if the shot wa...
Jump to postWe don’t have the CVR transcript, so we do not have an accurate account of the PF/PM conversation. The CA, as PF, is still captain and makes the final call, but he may have or may not have received any inputs from the F/O. It’s not a democracy, but everyone gets their say. As PM, it’s real hard to t...
Jump to postI also live in southern New England, heard from an RN the traffic was a 50 mile back-up in VT. Long red lines on Google Maps. The James Webb Space Telescope could not detect my interest in experiencing that for 3 minutes of darkness. At 93% totality, it got noticeably cooler and darker, more like a ...
Jump to postI’d bet landing a DC-9-15 at FMY on rainy night off the VOR approach was challenging. Thankfully it was a mid afternoon visual approach, but they had an ILS and NDB (oh what a great approach that was), but don't remember a VOR RWY 5 approach. They were sure glad I could point the airport out to the...
Jump to postI was a dinosaur inhabiting the Tombigbee before there was one, 77-05. Everybody did fam four-ship, as FAR, we did three formation landings.
Jump to postI’d bet landing a DC-9-15 at FMY on rainy night off the VOR approach was challenging.
Jump to postThe JT3D was on the B707/720 was in service in the early 60s while the JT8D was designed for the 727 and DC-9 in the late 50s and in service in 1963-ish or 1964. The JT3D is derived from the J57 and the JT8D from the J52 of A-4 and A-6 fame. The JT9D was originally designed for the Boeing entry in t...
Jump to postAny real world justification for your assertion of a 10:1 kill ratio? Or just spitballing’? Most of those nations are close allies.
Jump to postB6SpiritofEWR wrote:flight152 wrote:Oh yes, swoop into that highly lucrative ACY market.
You have a lot of the wealthiest municipalities in the nation within an hour and a half of ACY, many of which would prefer to avoid EWR if at all possible.
Yes, but the pilot with superior EM isn’t a guaranteed winner. Theres a lot more to combat, close-in or BVR, than performance specs. I’ve seen, heck been in the back seat, of an F-100F with a gun solution against a Lt in an F-15. Didn’t stay there long as the Eagle went vertical, but if the shot was...
Jump to postAll this arguing is neat stuff, but it’s not numbers that dictate the winner, it’s the people. Or, as we said in the fighter community, “P sub s never won a war”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy–maneuverability_theory
Is it not possible for ATC to coordinate with GA traffic and scheduled airlines to say arrange 1 B737 special flight to replace 10+ 6 seater GA aircraft that would all fly for catching the eclipse? It’s not ATC’s remit to coordinate airline charter business. If 10 GA owners wanted to charter a B737...
Jump to postRWY 04 already has an LPV approach, lower mins, autopilot coupled, just need LPV capability. Unknown if WN bought it and has approval. My experience with LOV-equipped bizjets is ATC doesn’t offer it much because the airlines don’t ask for it as an approach. Still, a pilot should be able to hand fly ...
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