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Forum: Tech Log

3rd Jan 2016, 10:22

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1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

@Mikehotel152; I hear your economic arguments. I...

@Mikehotel152; I hear your economic arguments. I totally accept that for some companies and aircraft types (e.g. Boeing) the lack of F/O taxiing is simply cost based, and I have no issue with that...

Forum: Tech Log

29th Dec 2015, 16:29

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

Oh please, not this again. Why does the...

Oh please, not this again. Why does the assumption keep being made that an F/O is somehow not competant to taxi an aircraft? If a pilot has passed all the tests to get into the right seat of a jet in...

Forum: Tech Log

26th Dec 2015, 20:04

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

No excuse in my book. They are so clever, they...

No excuse in my book. They are so clever, they should be capable of learning a few simple flows. And reading a checklist is child's play.

If they can't do that then are they really competent to...

Forum: Tech Log

23rd Nov 2015, 12:04

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

@Flying Stone, I agree with all of that. I...

@Flying Stone, I agree with all of that.

I am a little uncomfortable when (other) people imply that the F/O has little or no responsibility for the safe operation of a flight. Of course they have....

Forum: Tech Log

14th Nov 2015, 22:09

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

The problem juliet refers to, I think, is that of...

The problem juliet refers to, I think, is that of small men with big egos.

Frankly, I amazed they allow us to drive to work.......

Forum: Tech Log

13th Nov 2015, 15:16

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

@juliet, Well said.

@juliet,

Well said.

Forum: Tech Log

10th Oct 2015, 12:41

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

Quite frankly: telling an F/O - who has just...

Quite frankly: telling an F/O - who has just landed a jet weighing say 180 tonnes in bad weather at night, or flown it down to 200' aal and then gone around - that s/he is somehow not competant to...

Forum: Tech Log

9th Oct 2015, 13:35

Replies: 94

1 or 2 steering tillers?

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Posted By Uplinker

On the Airbus, it is steer-by-wire, so the...

On the Airbus, it is steer-by-wire, so the tillers are just spring loaded potentiometers/position sensors that input to a computer. I believe Boeings have mechanical linkages to the steering? If so...

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