That isn't unique to LAS. There are a lot of RWSL equipped airports in the USA where the Runway Entrance Lights turn off 1-2 seconds prior to the departing/arriving aircraft passing that taxiway intersection.
Jump to postOne other advantage of specialized de-ice pads is that usually they are set up with drainage systems that recover excess glycol. The fluid can be recycled and reused, which brings both cost savings and environmental benefits. Usually airports that de-ice at the gate just let the fluid sit on the ram...
Jump to postIs it always the same tail number? What's kind of interesting is that these flights are more than 50 miles off shore, which means the aircraft is equipped for extended overwater operations IAW FAR 135.167 (basically, life vests and life raft). I can't imagine all of the JSX aircraft are appropriatel...
Jump to postDominion301 wrote:To play devils advocate, how is the 65 year old captain any different than the 75 year old flight attendant blocking a junior FA from getting off reserve sooner and that’s been allowed for decades?
SAN-SJC on NK starts 6/7/23. Oh boy, after their roaring success with 1 (not even always daily) OAK flight, their doubling down on the Bay Area! So essentially NK will connect SAN with LAS, OAK & now SJC! What a route map from here! Maybe next will be a sub-daily flight to SMF? Forget all that ...
Jump to postIs this because of all the recent attempts to enter the flight deck? Or is just because the FAA is bored. Seriously, the current system seems to be working. It's because when Congress passed the 2018 FAA Reauthorization bill they also passed legislation directing the FAA to issue rules requiring se...
Jump to postFare unbundling gives you the opportunity to pay separately (and more) for services you previously received as part of your ticket. It’s considered brilliant when a business does it, and even hyped as consumer friendly, but when your county government starts charging you a separate fee for school b...
Jump to postDoesn't it strike anyone else odd that labor unions were originally designed to help the working-class men and women of this country stand up to management, and now pilots who often make more than two typical american workers combined and command a multi-million aircraft and the all the people aboa...
Jump to postI, for one, am quite amused that a regional airline has the hubris to claim that their flight training "academy" is as rigorous as United States Military flight training.
Jump to postThat sucks. I'm really hoping to fly an E175-E2 one day. It would be the most logical progression (from the "classic" E175). Hopefully things can be worked out. There is nothing stopping any major US Airline from ordering and flying the E175-E2. They just have to operate and maintain the ...
Jump to postSo true. In recent years we've lost Great Lakes and Seaport and now Boutique is collapsing. Unless the rules are eased up on pilots for commuter airlines, we all see the end coming. Seaport and Boutique were/are both part 135 carriers. Great Lakes operated a large portion of their Beech 1900 fleet ...
Jump to postGreg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business will be doing a webcast with Jamie Rhee, Commissioner, Chicago Dept. of Aviation on Thur 12/9 at 1pm (CST). I am anxious to get an update on the O'Hare 21 Project. https://web.cvent.com/event/04a41c07-849f-4013-ae85-564d7d7825bb/summary?utm_source=Sailthru&...
Jump to postThey sell those portable, disposable supplement oxygen bottles on Amazon and at most sporting goods stores. I am not sure how much you can get out of them, but perhaps if he was diligent in rationing them and lucky a handful of bottles might get him through the flight. Take a few breaths of it when...
Jump to postThis posting reads more as a snake oil salesman trying to take money from uninformed foreign pilots. There is no shortage of firms who will happily take your money to help you apply for the right to work in the US, and most will promise the world and then underdeliver. The EB-2 NIW (National Interes...
Jump to postCan I ask as an Aussie we don’t have the same commuter culture here, there are a few but no match for the US numbers. What happens in the US if you don’t make your trip because you didn’t get there in time, cancellations, full flights etc. In AU you would simply be considered to not show up for wor...
Jump to postAll turbine departures off 15 at BUR turn right to 210 at the standard 400' AAL/end of the runway. The lone exception might be if they give them the ELMOO9 going southeast, which we use in light airplanes headed in that direction to pick up V186. It isn't a quick turn, just a regular one. It just h...
Jump to postSo just out of curiosity, taking BOS as an example, takeoffs from 22L/R perform an essentially immediate turn to 140. Here is the language I found in the Logan Two departure procedure on Airnav: TAKEOFF RWYS 22L/22R: Climbing left turn heading 140 So does that mean an immediate turn, or is it assum...
Jump to postThis is slightly off-topic, but on the bus if you put the flap lever in 1, the actual position of the flaps and slats depends on if the airplane thinks you're taking off or landing? Here is the official Airbus "logic diagram" of what happens when when the flap lever is moved between 0, 1,...
Jump to postIs it possible to "pre-motor" the engines as you prepare for pushback, or does motoring need to be done immediately before the start sequence? Realistically, no, because it would probably not be safe to spin engines (even at a low speed) until the jetbridge is moved back to a safe parking...
Jump to postHello Aviators, I am currently a student pilot preparing to start CPL training. I am in my early 20's and have a bachelors degree in business management. I came across multiple articles while researching pilot hiring that, having a less than perfect driving record is damaging to your career. I want...
Jump to postI used to unload 5000 lbs. of live lobster off the morning flight from Boston. They were shipped in double-wall cardboard boxes with some sort of sealed plastic bladder inside. This was on DC-9 / MD-80
Jump to postIt has been mentioned that for short layovers, crew usually stay close to the airport. But there are exceptions. I once arranged a small conference at an inner city hotel, about 30 min from ARN and the hotel seemed to have a deal with Lufthansa as there was a lot of Lufthansa crew arriving and depa...
Jump to postATC knows that certain conditions will completely shut operations down. For example, FZRA, +SN, and PL (just to name a few) do not have holdover times. ATC is aware that putting this information out on the ATIS will shut the airport down, so they are more inclined to reduce the intensity to keep op...
Jump to postATC knows that certain conditions will completely shut operations down. For example, FZRA, +SN, and PL (just to name a few) do not have holdover times. ATC is aware that putting this information out on the ATIS will shut the airport down, so they are more inclined to reduce the intensity to keep op...
Jump to postThe E-175-2 is one plane that is being discussed here is a direct replacement for the E-175, going beyond that plane say with the E-190-2 would be entering the the realm of mainline and and scope should prevent that. Again, seats not weight should be the determining factor. If the Legacies were to ...
Jump to postA 1,500 hour pilot is still very inexperienced. United is demonstrating that they want their future pilots trained their way, the right way, from day one since someday soon there won’t be a lot of applicants left with 5,000+ hours of experience. You must own stock in a flight school or something. T...
Jump to postIf they were serious about this issue, they’d be lobbying Congress to do away with the 1500 hour rule. Taking over a flight school shows that they are very serious about this issue. Currently, legacy airlines are hiring pilots with either high-quality military flight training or thousands of hours ...
Jump to postSTLflyer wrote:32andBelow wrote:https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Plane-off-runway-at-Unalaska-Airport-563346322.html
1 reported dead. Only the second part 121 fatality since Colgan.
What about SWA1380?
The JetBlue crew was probably flying out of White Plains.
Jump to postBoeing polled pilots when designing the 777 on whether they wanted a stick or control column. We see what won out. This may be urban legend, but apparently when Embraer was designing the 170/190 they polled pilots who flew the 145. The pilots apparently overwhelmingly said they didn't like the &quo...
Jump to posthttps://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nation ... scare.html
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:Every single small airline is having an honest to god pilot shortage rn.
PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:The runway length is 5,001 feet at virtually sea level, similar to SNA which has EWR-SNA on a 737. And while I agree that the demand is going to be quite low, I know LNY has handled Hawaiian DC-9's in the past.
However, airline crews have frequently had to "chase bases." A crew base is never a guaranteed thing. They come and they go. Crews can elect to commute or they can move. I've had to change bases before. It sucks, but it's part of the business. Just ask the 700 AA flight attendants who jus...
Jump to postSo, if this is OK, why don't people in HR ask candidates for a few thousand dollars in return for a cabin crew job? Like in the 1990s when pilot applicants at some commuter airlines had to pay thousands of dollars toward their training? That went away because of market forces, not some overarching ...
Jump to postTell that to the guys that work graveyard 5 days a week. Did it for 8 years before I got promoted out of it. M, W-Sa. Tuesday and Sunday off. I knew people that worked M-F graveyard. If you do it regularly, your circadian will adapt to that schedule. 32andBelow was speaking from a regulatory perspe...
Jump to postPlenty of pilots who haul passengers bring a french press and their own coffee grounds!
Jump to postEven if there are discrepancies it's not exactly reasonable for the FAA to pursue action. The system as designed by the FAA is one giant rounding error. Passengers and bags are not weighed for weight and balance purposes, so the reality is that even if everyone and everything is properly accounted ...
Jump to postizbtmnhd wrote:
Also, Western flying 737s to tiny Wyoming towns might be a reason why Western isn’t around anymore!
At the end of the day though, I am still kind of surprised they did not try a traditional stall recovery once things started to go pear-shaped, although I suppose it happened so quickly there wasn't much time to react, and any number of the things you listed were likely running through the pilots' ...
Jump to postThe concern is that if there's a 15 knot gain there's also a 15 knot loss nearby!
Jump to postKrustyTheKlown wrote:The midfield concourses are going to require a major reconfiguration of taxiways and the demolition of runway 32L
Existing Flight Attendants are making 30% more than the competition at Rouge and Swoop and actually more than those at Air Canada! This was sustainable when flying oil workers to northern Alberta on oil contracts, but not when operating an ULCC. As one's business model changes, adapting to the econ...
Jump to postGoing back through several months, AC, B6, and F9 appear towards the bottom quite often. B6 operates its primary operations out of heavy-use (and some slot-restricted) airports, such as JFK and LGA. But I'm surprised about F9 in particular, especially with respect to NK, given that their fleet is o...
Jump to postHere is what I was referring to: MINNEAPOLIS EIGHT DEPARTURE: http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1812/00264MINNEAPOLIS.PDF Radar vector SIDs are in place to either: 1. Implement a climb gradient or crossing restriction as is the case in MSP and ORD (amongst others) 2. Assign initial turn heading(s) off o...
Jump to postAnecdotally I've always heard things about snow removal etc but climate doesn't stop airports in the US with similar climates. The article I link below suggests it is just because Nav Canada is cheap. Also, I know that Ottawa has now grooved at least one of their runways. https://www.ainonline.com/...
Jump to postI know this is has come up before but what is the reason that runways in Canada are not grooved? The only thing I can think of is that water will freeze in the gaps and ruin the pavement but I have been to other airports in climates that are similar to Canada's such as BOS, FRA, MUC, etc (I am sure...
Jump to postThose are delay vectors issued by Seattle center What is the most common reason? Low visibility? Weather? I don't know about these things so I have to ask. I also noticed some flights from the East Coast were making this type of maneuver. Not all flights. One from ORD and another from PHL were more...
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