EK 231 20 December DXB IAD near crash?
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I sort of get the point you're making, but it's not about going straight to jets or modern flight decks. I did that 22 years ago along with a lot of other cadets, and we're all able to fly because we were given the freedom to practise under the right circumstances. The problem these days is being allowed to practice. And we've all been moaning about it on here for years, which makes us partly to blame, because we should have been raising these concerns with the airlines instead of taking the easy route and letting somebody else worry about it once it's too late.
Ab initio trained pilots have been flying for tens of years without any safety issues if they were properly trained. The problem today is the strict ruleset to not fly manually to use automation whenever possible and the pressure to not deviate a slightest bit as every move gets monitored and recorded and any wrongdoings will be used against you.
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No worries. EK safest airline 2021, newest report of Jacdec.
https://www.spiegel.de/reise/jacdec-...f-aadcfd8fcee8
https://www.spiegel.de/reise/jacdec-...f-aadcfd8fcee8
Is this table about the first three days of 2022? In that case it's understandable that poor Lufty is a few notches behind the towbar-draggers and the ground racers as new year's day nullified their statistics. If it's about 2021 then the site have serious problems with numbers which is not promising.
Says all you need to know about the rigorousness of JACDEC's analysis.
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Is this table about the first three days of 2022? In that case it's understandable that poor Lufty is a few notches behind the towbar-draggers and the ground racers as new year's day nullified their statistics. If it's about 2021 then the site have serious problems with numbers which is not promising.
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I sort of get the point you're making, but it's not about going straight to jets or modern flight decks. I did that 22 years ago along with a lot of other cadets, and we're all able to fly because we were given the freedom to practise under the right circumstances. The problem these days is being allowed to practice. And we've all been moaning about it on here for years, which makes us partly to blame, because we should have been raising these concerns with the airlines instead of taking the easy route and letting somebody else worry about it once it's too late.
I almost feel sorry for emirates as they have a real problem ahead of them. They can’t simply allow their pilots to practice as they will expose themselves to huge risk while their 3000 odd pilots try to get back the skills they’ve lost. You can just imagine the errors going forward. Enough to make their safety and human factors departments pull their hair out trying to explain to an obtuse and obdurate management why their stats are through the roof. Almost!
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’…..elected to do a go-around….’
That is a gross oversimplification of a lot of factors that led to that accident, none more so than the culture at Emirates which is referred to in many areas as punitive. Was it mishandled? Yes. We’re there a lot of factors at play? Yes. They went around as the RAAS also activated - a go around irrespective of whether you think there was ‘plenty of runway left to safely stop.’
That is a gross oversimplification of a lot of factors that led to that accident, none more so than the culture at Emirates which is referred to in many areas as punitive. Was it mishandled? Yes. We’re there a lot of factors at play? Yes. They went around as the RAAS also activated - a go around irrespective of whether you think there was ‘plenty of runway left to safely stop.’
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I think you’ve just hit the nail on the head. We’re not allowed to practice.
I almost feel sorry for emirates as they have a real problem ahead of them. They can’t simply allow their pilots to practice as they will expose themselves to huge risk while their 3000 odd pilots try to get back the skills they’ve lost. You can just imagine the errors going forward. Enough to make their safety and human factors departments pull their hair out trying to explain to an obtuse and obdurate management why their stats are through the roof. Almost!
I almost feel sorry for emirates as they have a real problem ahead of them. They can’t simply allow their pilots to practice as they will expose themselves to huge risk while their 3000 odd pilots try to get back the skills they’ve lost. You can just imagine the errors going forward. Enough to make their safety and human factors departments pull their hair out trying to explain to an obtuse and obdurate management why their stats are through the roof. Almost!
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Originally Posted by Sailvi767
You should not be on instrument reference the moment you get airborne. You should be scanning the instruments and outside the aircraft until you are IMC.
In a wide-body on take-off you are...
a) Fairly well down the runway when you rotate so centreline reference is lost pretty quickly as you pitch up. And...
b) By the time you get to the normal attitude for rotation the visual horizon has disappeared behind the glare-shield
As you climb towards acceleration altitude visibility is good in you direction of travel (up) but visual flight cues (the horizon) are absent. That holds true for the 777, 747-400 and 787 all of which I have flown. Hence a pilot should employ visual cues until they are no longer available. Earlier commentators have observed that the ME pilot in the video prematurely dropped her eyes to the FD after rotation. That's frankly a conclusion too far...... She drops her gaze to the PFD because she has lost firstly the runway centreline and then shorty after the visual horizon. How do you possibly say she focuses on the FD alone? All you can you say she is reverting to the PFD..... and the clue for that is very much in the name!
The JACDEC list is laughable.... Interesting that the likes of Lufthansa and British Airways with open safety cultures are behind two Chinese operators operating in a freedom-of-information 'vacuum', with of course Emirates at the top. Perhaps we should follow the money when JACDEC's finance is concerned.
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Earlier commentators have observed that the ME pilot in the video prematurely dropped her eyes to the FD after rotation. That's frankly a conclusion too far...... She drops her gaze to the PFD because she has lost firstly the runway centreline and then shorty after the visual horizon. How do you possibly say she focuses on the FD alone? All you can you say she is reverting to the PFD..... and the clue for that is very much in the name!
So Bloomberg said:
Is there any other evidence anything happened. And more importanly, if this Triple7 cleared some housing by 75ft (200ft?) and nobody noticed, anybody got the builders details? I'd still be looking for my roof... 
The Emirates flight, bound to Washington DC, suffered a close call after the Boeing 777-300ER nearly impacted the ground in a Dubai neighborhood, according to The Air Current, which cited Flightradar24 and a notice to Emirates pilots. The plane came within 175 feet of impacting the ground, according to the news website. The incident may have been due to “incorrect setting” of the autopilot in the plane’s pre-flight setup, it said.
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When in EK as a 777 FO many years ago, an otherwise pleasant Captain told me once that "there is nothing written in the books calling for interpretation of what you see outside of the window when flying" (we had been discussing CB avoidance at night..) Waoww...
Another terrible sentence at EK, which has been creating a lot of evil was the infamous : "EK pilots should use the highest level of automation available" ....
I had been performing entire visual circuits at EBL notably, with Captains ex-RAF C130 (like me in another AF) and that was great.
Then other captains told me : " so you want to have fun ?" then "if you miss it, you will have big problems" (but why should I ?) so I decided to leave for more interesting pastures (yes, some colleagues were great, but so many others were of very low calibre)
Another terrible sentence at EK, which has been creating a lot of evil was the infamous : "EK pilots should use the highest level of automation available" ....
I had been performing entire visual circuits at EBL notably, with Captains ex-RAF C130 (like me in another AF) and that was great.
Then other captains told me : " so you want to have fun ?" then "if you miss it, you will have big problems" (but why should I ?) so I decided to leave for more interesting pastures (yes, some colleagues were great, but so many others were of very low calibre)
I think there are several issues here, and, surprisingly, I don’t think lack of hand-flying/recency is the most prominent.
Most airlines, on somewhere near page one of their OM A, have a clause that states that the captain can deviate as much as they like from SOPs for safety reasons. I don’t know if EK has the same; they may do. If there is a culture that publicly severely punishes any deviation, even if totally safe, then things are being set up for failure.
If the first thing you think about when anything out of the ordinary happens is “will I get called in/retrained/demoted/sacked?”, then the battle has been lost before a shot has been fired. IMO as pilots we are not there for the ordinary, the mundane, the everyday (although we still have to get that right). We are there for the odd occasion when things don’t go according to plan and it’s not something that is much known about or practiced. Then we earn our money using knowledge, experience, CRM and critical thinking skills; if we are in a state of conflict as to what management will think of it, then our survival instincts have been muted and a suboptimal outcome awaits.
Most airlines, on somewhere near page one of their OM A, have a clause that states that the captain can deviate as much as they like from SOPs for safety reasons. I don’t know if EK has the same; they may do. If there is a culture that publicly severely punishes any deviation, even if totally safe, then things are being set up for failure.
If the first thing you think about when anything out of the ordinary happens is “will I get called in/retrained/demoted/sacked?”, then the battle has been lost before a shot has been fired. IMO as pilots we are not there for the ordinary, the mundane, the everyday (although we still have to get that right). We are there for the odd occasion when things don’t go according to plan and it’s not something that is much known about or practiced. Then we earn our money using knowledge, experience, CRM and critical thinking skills; if we are in a state of conflict as to what management will think of it, then our survival instincts have been muted and a suboptimal outcome awaits.
Just to be clear Toledo, (because it is always hard to understand one’s tone) I stated what the case is in EK, not what I believe should be the case. And the set up of the RAAS at EK was (is?) poor as it was a fixed point irrespective of runway length.
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Originally Posted by de fumo in flamman
plus on one departure as PM, I looked out and saw we were on profile to plough through a huge flock of gulls, with no avoidance forthcoming. I took control and ducked below what would have been a multiple strike.
Get your CV in..... I hear Emirates are recruiting!
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Thread drift alert:
A good preflight briefing for any RAAS-equipped airplane: ...."and on this flight we will totally ignore all RAAS call-outs except for 'on taxiway' and 'altimeter setting'".......
Those two will save your life, everything else produced by the blighted device is noise, and noise at the worst possible time.
A good preflight briefing for any RAAS-equipped airplane: ...."and on this flight we will totally ignore all RAAS call-outs except for 'on taxiway' and 'altimeter setting'".......
Those two will save your life, everything else produced by the blighted device is noise, and noise at the worst possible time.
Only half a speed-brake
LVTO trained.
Wet Runway EFATO at V1 split from Vr by 15 kts. RVR 125 m, cockpit cutoff angle only provides 4 centreline lights remaining. No real sense of heading, only limited visual cues for lateral displacement. With about 5 deg NU nothing to see. Instruments.
Another exercise, loss of visual reference at V1 minus 20 kt. Nothing to see again, instruments during the roll.
Any normal night departure facing open sea, all black from about 10 deg NU. Nothing to see,...... you know where this is going
At the top of the thread someone mentioned, IIRC, the angles from the type involved:
8.9 for tailscrape
8.5 maximum
8.0 normal unstick
stunningly thin margins.
BTW does the T7 involved have some flaps auto-retract / relief feature for high speeds at take-off?
Wet Runway EFATO at V1 split from Vr by 15 kts. RVR 125 m, cockpit cutoff angle only provides 4 centreline lights remaining. No real sense of heading, only limited visual cues for lateral displacement. With about 5 deg NU nothing to see. Instruments.
Another exercise, loss of visual reference at V1 minus 20 kt. Nothing to see again, instruments during the roll.
Any normal night departure facing open sea, all black from about 10 deg NU. Nothing to see,...... you know where this is going
At the top of the thread someone mentioned, IIRC, the angles from the type involved:
8.9 for tailscrape
8.5 maximum
8.0 normal unstick
stunningly thin margins.
BTW does the T7 involved have some flaps auto-retract / relief feature for high speeds at take-off?
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