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Forum: Tech Log
19th May 2020, 17:11
Replies: 21
Views: 8,302
Posted By NARVAL

Dear friends... I am retired, thanks to a god...

Dear friends...
I am retired, thanks to a god who forgot to point his finger at me during my career...
I admire your knowledge, your professional curiosity and I love reading the tech logs.I wish...
Forum: Tech Log
27th May 2013, 08:35
Replies: 33
Views: 13,106
Posted By NARVAL

Well...if you do choose to keep the nose high and...

Well...if you do choose to keep the nose high and aerodynamically "brake" the plane, you must know that plane well. From memories of the A300 (beautiful plane which I loved) there was a "flight idle"...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
16th May 2013, 07:56
Replies: 35
Views: 14,695
Posted By NARVAL

Thanks a lot MAELS! Now translating...

Thanks a lot MAELS! Now translating...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
14th May 2013, 09:02
Replies: 35
Views: 14,695
Posted By NARVAL

The Superjet has had lots of problems,...

The Superjet has had lots of problems, unserviceability due to multiple serious failures...such that Rosaviatsia (the agency monitoring airline safety) has grounded the aeroflot SJ100s repeatedly....
Forum: Tech Log
10th May 2013, 10:12
Replies: 124
Views: 86,611
Posted By NARVAL

Very good discussion, many fascinating...

Very good discussion, many fascinating insights...I am now very retired, but flew the whole family for some years, and reading all the posts, and remembering my experience, I wonder if erverybody...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Dec 2012, 06:30
Replies: 90
Views: 76,981
Posted By NARVAL

I flew the palne for a few years, and of course...

I flew the palne for a few years, and of course there are thrust reversers. A very nice plane, mixing very advanced avionics (at the time) and very simple systems (you can still fly it with all...
Forum: Questions
29th Nov 2012, 09:15
Replies: 110
Views: 28,112
Posted By NARVAL

Quote: "Air France lost an Airbus a couple of...

Quote:
"Air France lost an Airbus a couple of years ago because of two pilots that couldn't fly without automation. They still don't care."
May I try to differ from that statement (respectfully, I...
Forum: Tech Log
11th Sep 2012, 16:45
Replies: 44
Views: 13,585
Posted By NARVAL

737Jock replied: only in alternate direct...

737Jock replied:
only in alternate direct law...
Thank you for your answer (except when you tell me the speed I quote 250 is incorrect...let us not split hairs, if it is 249 or 251, we are talking...
Forum: Tech Log
9th Sep 2012, 15:21
Replies: 44
Views: 13,585
Posted By NARVAL

Reading the comments on this subject, I realise...

Reading the comments on this subject, I realise that many captains are now very decided to save some pounds of fuel at all costs. Accelerating like a slingshot...sent a shudder through my old spine....
Forum: Tech Log
11th Jul 2012, 10:29
Replies: 1,454
Views: 253,732
Posted By NARVAL

"Different matter for an experienced experimental...

"Different matter for an experienced experimental TP but we are talking about two line F/Os who (so far as I am able to divine) had no broader experience"
Thank you John Tullamarine, for that...
Forum: Tech Log
12th Mar 2012, 11:41
Replies: 251
Views: 63,702
Posted By NARVAL

QUOTE JCJEANT J’ai l’impression qu’on a une...

QUOTE JCJEANT
J’ai l’impression qu’on
a une vitesse de fou
non qu’est-ce que vous
en pensez ?

I translate this as:
I have the "feeling" (impression) we have a crazy speed ... what do...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Jan 2012, 12:36
Replies: 63
Views: 21,043
Posted By NARVAL

Thank you for all those insights. In fact, I...

Thank you for all those insights.
In fact, I would avoid taking off with a tailwind, but if it cannot be avoided, then, as Captain Claret wisely said, ailerons are for roll control!
You use the...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Nov 2011, 10:50
Replies: 1,353
Views: 300,129
Posted By NARVAL

Maybe this message is not exactly « technical »...

Maybe this message is not exactly « technical » enough for the Tech log, but I think that training and experience, after all, are the key to explaining the difficulties met by the crew. So I hope you...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Oct 2011, 09:30
Replies: 1,688
Views: 407,481
Posted By NARVAL

quote Rudderat: Hi jcjeant, "99.99% of...

quote Rudderat:
Hi jcjeant,

"99.99% of the PF's manual flying experience will have been in Normal Law, where stick deflection controls a roll rate independent of air speed. When he was faced...
Forum: Tech Log
14th Sep 2011, 19:29
Replies: 1,688
Views: 407,481
Posted By NARVAL

Roulishollandais: specificity of deepstall which...

Roulishollandais: specificity of deepstall which has PERHAPS been the case in AF447.
Saying that shows that you are honest and open-minded.
In fact I believe it was a perfect example of deep stall....
Forum: Tech Log
14th Sep 2011, 17:28
Replies: 1,688
Views: 407,481
Posted By NARVAL

* Two texts (the first one is very long, and is...

* Two texts (the first one is very long, and is shortened here) to enlighten the subject of piloting and training for upsets.


Jacques Rosay chief test pilot « Safety First » magazine
...
Forum: Tech Log
11th Sep 2011, 20:53
Replies: 1,688
Views: 407,481
Posted By NARVAL

Lyman:Each time the guff gets to this point,...

Lyman:Each time the guff gets to this point, someone needs to remind us of the conditions, the failures, and the not well understood UAS problems.
Exactly!
Let us try to be fair:
Simulators...
Forum: Tech Log
6th Sep 2011, 10:02
Replies: 1,688
Views: 407,481
Posted By NARVAL

To help our non french-speaking friends, here is...

To help our non french-speaking friends, here is a quick translation if needed.
It is an Air France Flight safety information report.

* Level bust en turbulences
En croisière au FL 350, en IMC...
Forum: Tech Log
4th Aug 2011, 15:36
Replies: 1,998
Views: 511,835
Posted By NARVAL

Thank you Takata for your expanation about the...

Thank you Takata for your expanation about the flight directors.
I have been as all of us, appaled by the entire sequence of events.
I firmly beleive (and it has been said elsewhere) that the trim...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Jul 2011, 10:44
Replies: 32
Views: 18,136
Posted By NARVAL

You have said it all I think! To further think on...

You have said it all I think! To further think on the fact that a good wave-off is better than a botched decrabbing (wind becoming unmanageable...) may I recall a beautiful and terrifying video on...
Forum: Tech Log
8th Jun 2011, 20:11
Replies: 2,070
Views: 615,580
Posted By NARVAL

Thanks to all for serious and honest thoughts and...

Thanks to all for serious and honest thoughts and research on those sad events.
What is lacking in the last BEA report ? Almost everything. We need, at least, during the fall of the aircraft, the...
Forum: Tech Log
27th May 2011, 15:16
Replies: 2,070
Views: 615,580
Posted By NARVAL

A few thoughts after reading this prelimanary...

A few thoughts after reading this prelimanary report, and the many questions it raises. I write in a modest way, as it has been some years since I flew those planes, and I have forgotten a lot.
My...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Sep 2009, 12:49
Replies: 470
Views: 150,675
Posted By NARVAL

When I qualified on the A320, my instructors told...

When I qualified on the A320, my instructors told me : if you switch off everything, you have a C47 in your hands…Very nice to hear, but I had flown the C47 in the seventies, and I did not agree with...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Aug 2009, 16:11
Replies: 131
Views: 90,097
Posted By NARVAL

From my recollections (not yet hazy...) it is not...

From my recollections (not yet hazy...) it is not the first bounce, on a "hard" landing, that causes the excessive acceleration and damages the plane, but the next more or less controlled landing (or...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd Aug 2009, 10:03
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

Quote Hyperveloce : Displaying hazardously...

Quote Hyperveloce : Displaying hazardously misleading airspeed simultaneously on both pilots’ displays, coupled with the loss of stall warning or overspeed warning functions, must be Extremely...
Forum: Tech Log
31st Jul 2009, 07:06
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

About the pitot sensors, although the BEA does...

About the pitot sensors, although the BEA does not think that they are the cause of the crash, Airbus has acknowledged yesterday that they certainly were at least good for the junkyard and should be...
Forum: Tech Log
10th Jul 2009, 12:26
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

Narval, when Mr. Spinetta was appointed to head...

Narval, when Mr. Spinetta was appointed to head Air France over a decade ago, nobody there or at Air Inter, the domestic carrier, expected him to last very long. The job was a political plum that...
Forum: Tech Log
9th Jul 2009, 20:42
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

Thank you for the translation Arthur Borges! If...

Thank you for the translation Arthur Borges! If Mr Gourgeon, Chief Executive of Air France seems to be very happy with his company (some people never learn) the Chief Executive or Air France-KLM, Mr...
Forum: Tech Log
7th Jul 2009, 12:54
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

PJ2, it would be difficult to do better than your...

PJ2, it would be difficult to do better than your exhaustive answer. But to help (maybe) answering the question "switching deliberately from alternate to direct law" and as a former airbus driver I...
Forum: Tech Log
4th Jul 2009, 13:43
Replies: 153
Views: 56,321
Posted By NARVAL

Celtic Mech, thank you for your very clear...

Celtic Mech, thank you for your very clear explanation
Coming a little late, and about the Nav ADR disagree message, the BEA (French investigation preliminary report) explains it thus:...
Forum: Tech Log
27th Jun 2009, 20:58
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

Upset and managing the plane

This is not a comment on the Air France crew, but a remark on the way training in airlines (the one I know anyway) is becoming just a quick dip in the books.I have been retired for five years now,...
Forum: Tech Log
12th Jun 2009, 10:41
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,777
Posted By NARVAL

Rudder Travel Limit Fault

Just to give a little information on the subject (A330) of the rudder :

Rudder : Yaw damping in turbulence after failure :in case of a total loss of electrical power there remains a backup yaw...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jun 2009, 11:41
Replies: 947
Views: 1,115,679
Posted By NARVAL

I take the liberty of posting my previous message...

I take the liberty of posting my previous message again, if I may...
Although the initial failure report in the automatic message seems to have been about electrical problems (I do not know which)...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Jun 2009, 07:32
Replies: 947
Views: 1,115,679
Posted By NARVAL

Although the initial failure report in the...

Although the initial failure report in the automatic message seems to have been about electrical problems (I do not know which) and the "tree" of possibilities of systems degrading from there is a...
Forum: Tech Log
25th Feb 2009, 19:09
Replies: 1,524
Views: 743,094
Posted By NARVAL

Narval, what the heck do you fly; anyone that...

Narval, what the heck do you fly; anyone that flies Airbus FBW knows that during DIRECT LAW you will loose AUTO TRIM and there is a big anouncement in amber right in front of you to remaind you....
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