You’d be surprised how much influence a little hill at LAX has to do with, and specifically, second segment climb performance on a v1 cut over that hill….
Jump to postIn my career thus far of close to 20,000 hours 121 flying, I have filled the tanks up full exactly one time.
Jump to postEven if I were flying the LOC 27 I would be descending using vnav anyways. I don’t need a glideslipe for that and since they can’t get me the minimums I need, there’s no point in installing one.
Jump to postHello, I have flown several times but today I experienced something unusual for me after take-off with an A320 from Antalya to Düsseldorf (24F). Shortly after take-off ( https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/xq282#32284be4 either at about the 1st turn or 2nd turn (I can't remember)) the aircra...
Jump to postAirplanes are funny in how isolated some of these sounds can be. If you're right over the gear, this is usually *really* loud. If you're only a couple rows forward or aft, you won't hear it at all. CRJ-200 main gear doors opening for landing sounds almost like a gunshot. I’ve seen more than one per...
Jump to postOn the 737, the mains are stopped from rotating during retraction by hydraulic system pressure. The nose wheels are stopped by friction against scrubbers. On extension, there is nothing stopping them from turning other than their own inertia.
Jump to postI can make a 737 not dark in about 30 seconds. I can make it not physically cold in another two minutes. I can make it ready to go somewhere in the time it takes to spin up the irs’es as long as my other pilot doesn’t find anything on walk around. But I’m rarely in such a hurry, of course.
Jump to postBack when employee parking was south of the C/D terminal when it was windy we would grab our lunches and go watch the circling. It was good times. I saw a KAL 744 put it -on- the 30 numbers once. That was very interesting.
Jump to postI know of an airline that operates 24 full flight simulators to support a fleet of 771 737s.
Jump to postThey didn’t. It’s about overall noise emissions blended over the entire day. But like I said before, if your company is using a “quieter” slot then you still do the cutback. Even in the max.
Jump to postNot all slots require the same noise emissions restrictions. Some are “louder” some are “quieter”. The airlines that still utilize the cutback procedure do so because they are using slots that are more strict about noise emissions.
Jump to postI’d like to see pics of the differences. The main marking is to outline an area allowed to have cold soaked fuel frost.
Jump to postYou know who prefers the LED long flash though? Despite how cool it looks? Pilots in line for takeoff at night. They aren’t nearly as blinding as the xenon strobes.
Jump to postI rather enjoyed the apu exhaust pointed down onto the ramp. I could store enough warm air from the jetway in my winter coat to get me to the tail portion of the preflight where that was located. Then, gloriously recharge in a plume of warm probably carcinogenic exhaust but it felt amazing in Fargo ...
Jump to postRemember, you have to buy the things, too. The cost of 2@321 Is less than 1@350/330neo
Jump to postThese comments are based on 737 vnav but other aircraft are similar. Much of the time, the vnav functions identically to level change. During periods of unrestricted climb, vnav speed is max climb thrust, speed bug as set by the fmc. Only to meet a restriction does it enter a path mode. Similarly in...
Jump to postTo smoothly land my aircraft, a 737, you have to gently de-rotate to sort of skip the mains on as you touch down. The net effect is the same as you pull the side stick to counter the nose down trim application. It results in nice landings. Yes I’m typed in both the a320 and 737.
Jump to postIf I’m descending into, say, Sacramento, on a flight from Seattle, from FL400 I’ll pull the thrust to idle over Redding, or thereabouts. If I do it properly and ATC has no traffic issues, I wouldn’t need to apply thrust until I’m at 1000 ft… and only that because of the drag from configuring. If I h...
Jump to postA bag in the overhead weighs nothing, since it is built into the weight of a passenger, but in the pit it counts as a bag and weighs somewhere around 30 pounds depending on what their average weight program weights are.
Jump to postThe 737s flying inter island can stay in Hawaii for at the most, ten days. They have to return to the mainland for service checks because their operator does not have actual company maintenance out in Hawaii and contract maintenance can’t do all the maintenance needed to keep those aircraft out ther...
Jump to postI suppose it might depend on what you considered “just before touchdown”. In the 737 it could be possible that I planned for, loaded, briefed, flaps 30. Then because of an unexpected tailwind, atc, etc, I was high and/or fast. I could drop flaps 40 to have the drag to repair that. But since my numbe...
Jump to postThe inlet design was taken from the 787 design. Airflow around the new tail one design.
Jump to postThe in flight open position is only 17 degrees vs the 45 degrees you see on the ground when watching our planes from the terminal. Ordinarily the apu is used only in flight as directed by mel or Qrh. However, we also run it continuously on departure during etops flights, it is running as a third ele...
Jump to postI’m not sure what the groaning sound in the middle was but the final sound was created by the actuation of the jack screw past the limit of electrical trim, by the trim wheel being manually cranked to zero by someone in the cockpit.
Jump to postThe drag from a spinning prop is tantamount to having a disc of plywood out there that you’re pushing through the air. On a small aircraft the proportion of frontal area that said prop takes is much greater than the equivalent frontal area of a jet. The free spinning N1 also has a lot of drag, but p...
Jump to postYou can fly lat long fixes to Hawaii. I’ve done it to go north of A track.
Jump to postI once flew an aircraft that had pneumatically actuated thrust reversers. There’s an infinite supply of air, too, in an engine that is running.
Jump to postYou’re only going to get 17000 lb onto a 737 if you can’t use your center tanks, out of a potential capacity around 46,000 lb.
Jump to postOnly in the classic. The NG won’t honk at you flaps 10. I use it frequently when I want to descend at a decent rate but not use speed brakes.
Jump to postOnly in the classic. The NG won’t honk at you flaps 10. I use it frequently.
Jump to postV1 call happens at 2:24
Jump to post737 has cables going to flight controls, actuated by a person. These people powered generators consume cheap coffee and garbage airport food. One of the greatest misconceptions in aviation. 737 has cables to the hydraulic fight flight control actuators, with manual reversion in some instances. Whil...
Jump to postWe need that roll control authority at low airspeed.
Jump to post737 has cables going to flight controls, actuated by a person. These people powered generators consume cheap coffee and garbage airport food.
Jump to postAir Florida had thrust to spare but what the DC10 really could have used was a few knots more airspeed. If they hadn’t been so dead nuts precisely pitching to V2 that wing wouldn’t have stalled.
Jump to postLooks like 1-5-10-15-25-30
Jump to postHmm. I’ve been over 170 dual wheel. I’ll ask next time.
Jump to postIf I choose to exercise courtesy about my strobe usage, it isn’t so much the wingtip strobes I’m being courteous about. It’s the tail strobe, which is right in the face at eye level of the crew behind us.
Jump to postGo take a demo flight. I doubt it’s too late for you if you have the heart for it.
Jump to postSounds like you were overflown by an a220 or an a320 going to flaps 1
Jump to postIt would be hard to make stable approach requirements doing a late turn like that.
Jump to postOf course there is. If you work for southwest.
Jump to postI really like landing at kpwm. From the west you descend to fly over Portland head light house. You head out over the Casco bay, around Ft Gorges and down the mouth of Portland harbor. It becomes the Fore river and as it curves around it deposits you right on the extended centerline of runway 29. If...
Jump to postRare. Usually it only occurs because of a late tail swap.
Jump to postI’ve seen push to release on certain aircraft seatbelts that also had an airbag installed.
Jump to post