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Forum: Rumours & News
19th Dec 2010, 07:25
Replies: 58
Views: 25,281
Posted By Captain-Crunch

The Smoke Detector who cried Wolf

(Note: Non-777 Dino comments follow. If these upset you, kindly skip down to the next post.)

Nothing's worse than a compartment fire since you can never be sure just how bad it is. We used to...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Dec 2010, 10:12
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Very Impressive PBL, Sorry to doubt your...

Very Impressive PBL,

Sorry to doubt your good word, but we get instant experts coming out the ears around here as I'm sure you can appreciate.

Although I was not asking for your identity, it...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Dec 2010, 04:15
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

"Ex-spurt"

PBL,
Well, even though I don't think it's a conspiracy, I noticed that most people who go around calling themselves "experts" are anything but that. :} Witness the so-called "Aviation Experts"...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2010, 08:03
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Hey DC-ATE, missed you post earlier, tried to...

Hey DC-ATE, missed you post earlier, tried to private mail you but says it's disabled.

I lost my medical, but flew:

GA bugsmashers
Beech 18's (radial engines!)
Fanjet Falcons, B727, B747,...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2010, 07:34
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Blame it on the Ice boogieman, not the computer

Hey PBL,

Thanks for the great post. It's clear from everybody that my ignorance knows no bounds. :ooh: It seems like the older I get, the less I know. However that's why I make these posts, in...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2010, 04:43
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

"Locked-door" said: CC says: I've read the...

"Locked-door" said:
CC says:
I've read the 777 thread and I know that ice all by itself is blamed for the accident. But I just don't buy it. Thousands of jet engines with fuel/oil heat exchangers...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2010, 01:44
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Great post Goldfish85, Exactly the...

Great post Goldfish85,

Exactly the real-world insight I was trying to tease out with my remarks. Direct experience, not just as line pilot, but emergency pull-up with a A320 test pilot from the...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Dec 2010, 08:22
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

The Bus Cult Continues

Interesting post by 320 driver. :)

I believe it aptly demonstrate my point about the "blind faith" some A320 drivers exhibit toward a design that over-rides the pilots command to miss the rocks...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
29th Nov 2010, 04:22
Replies: 137
Views: 35,991
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Send us your dollars

Hell Management! LOL!
Yeah, that's just what we need: more Oil Company Advice. It isn't enough that the Oil-Mafia destroyed the world-wide Aviation business with fuel extortion and racketeering,...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Nov 2010, 09:29
Replies: 222
Views: 83,573
Posted By Captain-Crunch

"Shuttering" Mystery

A poster was mentioning that the crew was experiencing "shuttering" which I suspect could be flight spoiler reaction. At least on the previous airframe, the A300/310/B4's, the bird had no inboard...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Sep 2010, 08:02
Replies: 731
Views: 549,059
Posted By Captain-Crunch

@ guppy

It appears, Oh stolid gupp,

You were right about the Belgium 747 bird ingestion/abort accident. Pacplyer sends his acquiescence (Look it up) of your correct interpretation of the unfortunate...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Aug 2010, 06:30
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

International etiquette

Exactly denlopviper,

There's not just one way to do everything. US Intn'l non-radar guidance the AIM allows several methods of course reversal, procedure turn etc; all up to the pilot on how to...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Aug 2010, 11:53
Replies: 411
Views: 243,223
Posted By Captain-Crunch

411a

I would like to tip my hat, to 411a and his admirable real-world training ethics. :ok:

Somebody mentioned over 850 fpm descent required for a three degree glidepath at gross weight. Throw in a...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Aug 2010, 03:00
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Meekal

Hey Meekal,

Please don't be offended by, shall we say, some of our gruffer "Wheelchair-Aviators" in this forum who clearly have no experience with electric jets, but still feel a need to wear four...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2010, 17:07
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Well, most everybody has some trouble with the...

Well, most everybody has some trouble with the increased complexity of modern automated airplanes.
Not not necessarily in flying, but in programing and supervising the automation. It's not an...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2010, 15:48
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Yes, really BOAC. It's a safety thing that old...

Yes, really BOAC. It's a safety thing that old hands did when mountains or hills are close to the airport. It only takes a second for one guy to reach over and set it up. The new radars are so...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2010, 13:55
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Weather Radar for terrain avoidance

.
Old school here again. :8

In your super-side-stick airbus of tomorrow, that I'm always told is so advanced and superior to older models, do we not pan the radar on the mountains anymore?...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Aug 2010, 03:07
Replies: 702
Views: 214,024
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Danger Just Great. Sounds like another anti-labor law...

Just Great. Sounds like another anti-labor law is coming down the pipe.

What this really means is Congress is going to steal our pension plans since we won't ever need them, since by the time we...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jul 2010, 03:49
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

First of all, while a good post with good points,...

First of all, while a good post with good points, the heading "Pope" guy is wrong afaik. 737, 747, 727, BAe146, Bizjets, (Collins, Sperry, King etc) and dozens of GA aircraft with HSI's, took the...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 14:02
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

JetJock330, You might be right; you think he...

JetJock330,

You might be right; you think he forgot go parallel to the runway? :confused: We need a flight track leaked to wikileaks... Anybody?

And one point: A map shift is not likely a...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 13:20
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Ah, BOAC, You'd make a great Chief Pilot...

Ah, BOAC,

You'd make a great Chief Pilot because your logic is good. :ok: Unfortunately, they'd probably fire you for speaking such legal department heresy as not computing the landing distance...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
29th Jul 2010, 09:33
Replies: 4
Views: 1,050
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Hardship Posting

Well,

It was a long time ago, but my co-pilot got blown up in a Southern Transport C-130 when they hit an unknown mine buried in the dirt runway. She still walks funny. When I told an African...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 07:28
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Thanks PJ2, Good to see you again. Nice...

Thanks PJ2,

Good to see you again. Nice Graphics w/Machaca.

Thanks guys for entertaining my unpopular anti-automation position. Bergerie1 makes a valid point that I shouldn't contrast too...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 04:59
Replies: 411
Views: 243,223
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Because MD-11's are older? I just don't...

Because MD-11's are older? I just don't understand the MD-11 witch hunt. The machine has the same accident rate as the B-707. They both fly over your house, yet I don't hear any poster calling for...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 03:08
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

The Question is: can you disable IRU updates on your Glass Boeing or y. Glass Airbus?

Iceman50 raised a bullshat flag. Good. Since I have never flown a Glass Boeing I wasn't aware that 757/767 had 18 mile map shifts on the procedure turn.

But I stlll need the questioned answered:...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2010, 01:17
Replies: 730
Views: 265,891
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Speculation on why he was so far from the runway

Let's talk for a minute about Moving Map. And please feel free to raise the bullshat flag if you disagree with any of this based on your Airbus flying experience. On the predecessor airplane: the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jul 2010, 08:42
Replies: 115
Views: 44,109
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Firewall Power/Air Florida Accident

First, may I salute the fine airmanship of the BA 74 crew in SA. Firewall power (thrust lever position) was the right choice in response to stick shaker. Perhaps there was no steady amber LED...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jul 2010, 02:08
Replies: 581
Views: 183,605
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Correction

Yes,

protectthehornet, 777Yank and others are correct,

I meant to say when "the pilot flying feels the [pedal steering] becoming effective", [not rudder], as in, after the turn into runway...
Forum: Tech Log
16th Jul 2010, 15:23
Replies: 1,524
Views: 743,100
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Indictment of the button pushers

Airbuses are fine machines when ever thing works properly. But when faults happen, they don't always clearly annunciate to the crew what's wrong in a clear fashion. For example, the predecessor...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jul 2010, 11:57
Replies: 581
Views: 183,605
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Mile High Club

Tell you what group,

Denver is one of those cities where escape from rotor clouds and mountain wave is impossible if you fly in there long enough. I thought the old Stapleton airport was worse...
Forum: Tech Log
26th Feb 2010, 08:00
Replies: 23
Views: 10,041
Posted By Captain-Crunch

God I loved the low alt 146. With ALF 502/503's,...

God I loved the low alt 146. With ALF 502/503's, we were blowing engines left and right on the 100, so the company took us out and three-engined takeoff qualled all of us in the actual airplane! ...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
16th Jan 2010, 04:46
Replies: 24
Views: 6,952
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Could be just precautionary. If you dispatch...

Could be just precautionary. If you dispatch with an inop crossfeed, lose some boost pumps on that tank and don't know how to balance fuel via the dump system (on 100-200), you aren't out of fuel,...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Jun 2009, 01:51
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,831
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Graybeard said: Statistically, A330's are...

Graybeard said:


Statistically, A330's are good safe airplanes. It's just that we who desire that trend to continue, wish for meaningful successful mods to the factors responsible for this...
Forum: Tech Log
14th Jun 2009, 14:02
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,831
Posted By Captain-Crunch

Safety Concerns, I shouldn't have said "a...

Safety Concerns,

I shouldn't have said "a few seconds all the way to france." I should have said a few seconds to the First Downlink Ground Station.

Indulge me for a moment, will you? My...
Forum: Tech Log
14th Jun 2009, 13:17
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,290,831
Posted By Captain-Crunch

You are fast Safety Concerns. I'm going to have...

You are fast Safety Concerns. I'm going to have to stop editing on line! :} I was trying to rebut the "DG" misunderstanding by the professor, before I realized the ISIS is probably the entire suite...
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