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Old 17th Mar 2019, 19:10
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Originally Posted by Australopithecus
Is the pitot or “probe” heat on a 767 auto or manually selected? Does faulty probe heat trigger a caution? Just wondering if a blocked pitot on descent yielded an alarmingly low airspeed indication prompting an overreaction with thrust and attitude?

Probe heat is automatic on the 767 (all heated probes). Any probe heat failure generates an EICAS message.
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Old 17th Mar 2019, 19:27
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Originally Posted by B2N2


You’ve posted previously you were involved in something related to the MD-80.
No idea what that was but you don’t just do “seat swaps” for a jolly and certainly not at that stage of the flight.
Seat swaps with relief crew occur at cruise and the “landing” crew is seated 1-1.5 hrs out.
350-500 miles.
Not to answer for EXDAC, but I flew Capt on the Mad Dog for 12 years and swapped legs if there was another qualified Capt on the crew list (rare), but never swapped seats. I did go to the lav a few times but only in cruise and nobody sat in my seat. If the sequence was over 8 hrs flying or 14 hrs duty (very rare) we had a relief crew, but the seat exchange was done at the gate.
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Old 18th Mar 2019, 01:03
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Exactly so this whole seat swap lost your balance or the jumpseater wanted to take a picture and fell onto the controls is just utter jibberish.
Frankely is astounding people even post this and are serious.
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Old 18th Mar 2019, 15:28
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Originally Posted by Murexway
Well, the first part of the name is "Professional Pilots" . Wish there was a way to enforce that....
This has been done to death and back. With that you'd throw away all the valuable contributions of engineers, ATC personnel, psychologists, sociologists, human-machine interface specialists, safety practitioners, and even *gasp* regulators and managers, etc., and end up a pilots-only echo chamber. I guess you can have that if you want, but that is not what this place is intended to be.

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Old 18th Mar 2019, 15:50
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Originally Posted by bsieker
This has been done to death and back. With that you'd throw away all the valuable contributions of engineers, ATC personnel, psychologists, sociologists, human-machine interface specialists, safety practitioners, and even *gasp* regulators and managers, etc., and end up a pilots-only echo chamber. I guess you can have that if you want, but that is not what this place is intended to be.

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OK, make it the “ professional people in aviation “ forum. I’m sure no one wants to discourage our colleagues in all the areas, but maybe try and stifle the spotters, nutters and those who wear tin foil hats
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Old 18th Mar 2019, 19:28
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Originally Posted by Meester proach
OK, make it the “ professional people in aviation “ forum. I’m sure no one wants to discourage our colleagues in all the areas, but maybe try and stifle the spotters, nutters and those who wear tin foil hats
There are aviation professionals who are nutters, and who wear tin foil hats. And there are non-aviation professionals who have a great deal to contribute.
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Old 18th Mar 2019, 21:44
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Do you want to exclude those of us with no medical due to silver hair ?
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Old 18th Mar 2019, 21:59
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Originally Posted by The Ancient Geek
Do you want to exclude those of us with no medical due to silver hair ?
No way!!! Too many of us a bit wetter behind the ears are so busy staring at the single tree we have been assigned to manage that we can miss the shape of the forest. All of us certainly need the wisdom of those of you who have been around long enough to see how we got where we are to have some sense of how to move forward. It's hard to know how to get out of the woods if you were born in the thick of it and grew up not knowing any better. As one a little past half way between newbie and certified grey beard I implore all of you who have been around the block a few times to keep sharing your insights with the rest of us. Lord knows we need every bit of help we can collect!

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Old 18th Mar 2019, 22:39
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Originally Posted by Murexway
Not to answer for EXDAC, but I flew Capt on the Mad Dog for 12 years and swapped legs if there was another qualified Capt on the crew list (rare), but never swapped seats. I did go to the lav a few times but only in cruise and nobody sat in my seat. If the sequence was over 8 hrs flying or 14 hrs duty (very rare) we had a relief crew, but the seat exchange was done at the gate.
Seats have to be swapped in cruise for a long flight that requires a relief pilot.

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Old 19th Mar 2019, 02:28
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Originally Posted by aterpster
Seats have to be swapped in cruise for a long flight that requires a relief pilot.

After four years flying the MD80 I can assure
you it doesn’t have the legs that would require an inflight seat swap for a relief pilot
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 02:44
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Apparently Wall Street and Business Insider reporting NTSB stating pilot error as the cause of the crash. In the final minutes, pilots increase thrust passing through wx, overreact to nose up pitch due to thrust increase, end up 49deg nose down. NTSB saying reaction very strange for experienced aviators, as is obvious. Very strange
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 02:51
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Salute!

Couldn't resist.....
by ater'pester"
Seats have to be swapped in cruise for a long flight that requires a relief pilot.
Well, I still consider myself a "professional". And had a little bit of time as a government-paid triggerman that allowed me to gain a degree of experience with aerodynamics and avionics and.... All in planes that I could not stand up in or walk to the loo ( deference to the Poms) or grab a fresh cup of coffee. So for a good test try sitting in a small chair with oxygen mask on and maybe a relief tube to help, or a box lunch so the crumbs clogged up your valve in the mask, for 13 or 14 hours.

Just my "whine of the day" at the pester!

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Jez thot we needed a bit of light commentary and this thing is very sad.

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Old 19th Mar 2019, 03:54
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Originally Posted by stilton



After four years flying the MD80 I can assure
you it doesn’t have the legs that would require an inflight seat swap for a relief pilot
It is very strange. The only thing that comes to mind is a DC-8 crash in the 80s or 90s where fatigue might have made the pilots “punch drunk”. So we would have to know what the pilots’ duty day was like. If a tag leg after an all nighter with delays in between flights they would be zombies. NTSB will let you know someday. Nobody on atlas dare chime in if that’s the case.
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 04:30
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Originally Posted by jimtx


It is very strange. The only thing that comes to mind is a DC-8 crash in the 80s or 90s where fatigue might have made the pilots “punch drunk”. So we would have to know what the pilots’ duty day was like. If a tag leg after an all nighter with delays in between flights they would be zombies. NTSB will let you know someday. Nobody on atlas dare chime in if that’s the case.
Looks like the aircraft operated KONT/KMIA/KIAH. Assuming this crew flew it out of KONT they'd be looking at about a 10 hour duty day.
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 04:41
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So who exactly were the crew complement?

Originally Posted by stilton



After four years flying the MD80 I can assure
you it doesn’t have the legs that would require an inflight seat swap for a relief pilot
I am a little confused: I thought the airplane was a B767, not a MD80, in which case you are correct - the MD80 doesn't have the legs for a relief pilot. BUT...the crashed airplane was a B767, cest na pas?
As for the chatter about changing crew positions:
a. How many crew were assigned to the flight, and how many were type-rated and current on type (I may have missed that somewhere in the posts)?
b. Was the jump-seater (assumption) rated and current on type with the operator?
I opine that it would be a very "courageous" captain to permit a non-type rated company pilot to occupy either CM1 or CM2 seat at any stage of the flight.
I wait to be enlightened.
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 06:19
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Originally Posted by runner1021
Looks like the aircraft operated KONT/KMIA/KIAH. Assuming this crew flew it out of KONT they'd be looking at about a 10 hour duty day.
Thats what the aircraft did but we don’t know what the crew did. All nighter from somewhere,sit till they get their 11am departure ready for you, I would be a zombie. I only had to experience zombie land once to know that you are far from 100% and it differs with crews. But all guesswork. NTSB will have the story.
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Originally Posted by Skyborne Flyer
Apparently Wall Street and Business Insider reporting NTSB stating pilot error as the cause of the crash.
You must be reading a different article.

From the one that you linked to:

"Robert Sumwalt, the NTSB's chairman, predicted it would take more than a year of work to determine the cause of the crash"
Which do you think is more likely to be something that the NTSB would actually say ?
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 10:38
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
You must be reading a different article.

From the one that you linked to:



Which do you think is more likely to be something that the NTSB would actually say ?
More than a year for the final report, probably. But by the preliminary report which should be out in a couple of weeks, there will be some pretty strong hints.
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Old 19th Mar 2019, 13:33
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Originally Posted by valvanuz
More than a year for the final report, probably. But by the preliminary report which should be out in a couple of weeks, there will be some pretty strong hints.
Because it's an air carrier accident, sometime prior to the final report the NTSB will open a docket. The docket will have a wealth of factual reports including the CVR transcript.
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Got this info from my airlines unofficial forum. Unofficial of course .

The initial bobble is from turbulence at 6200’. When the FO called for flaps 1, the captain accidentally hit the toga button. Toga didn’t engage until after flaps were set to 1, which then brought engine power to full, and started the initial pitch of 10 degrees nose up. The FO was startled, and shoved the nose forward... The CVR is startling, and baffling. The CA was pulling so hard against the FO that he sheared the pins on the stick and at that point had no control. They were IMC at the time. When they broke out into VMC, the FO said oh schit and started to pull. That was the round out you see. I won’t get into anything more until everything comes out. The records, the CVR, and what happened in the flight deck is truly shocking. They hit a negative 4 G dive initialy on the FOs push. All you hear is stuff hitting the ceiling and at one point a loud thud. They think the thud may have been the JS hitting the ceiling and maybe not wearing the shoulder harness. Like I said, I won’t get into anything more about the background of how it all happened. This is the accident in a nutshell. The facts that will come out are shocking.

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