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Search: Posts Made By: FlightTester
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Forum: Flight Testing
10th Jan 2011, 18:40
Replies: 10
Views: 5,868
Posted By FlightTester

B737 Crew Workload

I can't vouch whether it was done this way, but it should have been certificated iaw FAR 25.1523 and Annex D, the current amendment level for both those regs are from 1965:)
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2010, 02:53
Replies: 41
Views: 10,378
Posted By FlightTester

SilsoeSid Do you think that the BBMF Lancaster...

SilsoeSid Do you think that the BBMF Lancaster could be fitted with a refuelling boom and be sent on a long range mission to MPA once it has been overrun?

Probably easier to create the original...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2010, 21:38
Replies: 41
Views: 10,378
Posted By FlightTester

I'm with ShyTorque on this one. I was around for...

I'm with ShyTorque on this one. I was around for the last "last colonial war". That was about four years after I was in Portsmouth with my school on a careers week, and I watched our last proper...
Forum: Flight Testing
29th Oct 2010, 21:01
Replies: 48
Views: 18,682
Posted By FlightTester

As I like to tell the people I work with (and...

As I like to tell the people I work with (and for): It's not the job of Flight Test to break the aircraft, it's our job to point out where the aircraft is broken
Forum: Military Aviation
6th May 2010, 18:55
Replies: 268
Views: 137,504
Posted By FlightTester

The Joys of MT II

RAFG - early 90's. It's always the armourers.... SAC armourer going a tad too quickly through the HAS site, clips the grass skids and flips the Landrover (luckily fitted with roll bars so no one...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st May 2010, 15:33
Replies: 268
Views: 137,504
Posted By FlightTester

A couple that I remember: A Technical...

A couple that I remember:

A Technical Training Unit in Buckinghamshire early 80's

Morning parade of Electrical Training Squadron and an A/Cpl discip is standing behind me, "SAC M***, am I...
Forum: Engineers & Technicians
21st Mar 2010, 16:30
Replies: 6
Views: 847
Posted By FlightTester

Getting into the aircraft business...

Hi James,

Have you thought about doing some FAA technician courses to convert your broad spectrum electronics engineering knowledge into more tailored avionics knowledge or maybe looking at...
Forum: Flight Testing
20th Feb 2010, 20:41
Replies: 9
Views: 3,911
Posted By FlightTester

For us a hard landing inspection is required...

For us a hard landing inspection is required typically if the touchdown rate is greater than 8 - 10 feet/sec. Being an experimental organisation -that's an equivalent parameter equal to 8 - 10...
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Dec 2009, 19:24
Replies: 33
Views: 4,720
Posted By FlightTester

Blade Stall....

...It's been a long time since I worked anything rotary (20 + years), but if I recall sloppy controls and airframe vibration/buffet/rumble generally means a couple of things:

1. Incipient stall -...
Forum: Flight Testing
24th Dec 2009, 17:16
Replies: 5
Views: 2,793
Posted By FlightTester

Why aren't any of the 787 people posting to Pprune...

...I would imagine because with Ship 1 and 2 flying this week they're a little busy right now!
Forum: Engineers & Technicians
27th Nov 2009, 00:40
Replies: 47
Views: 7,554
Posted By FlightTester

With Tongue Firmly in Cheek

The military is taking pilots out of the cockpit and making their aircraft automated, there are however no plans to do likewise with the maintenance of the same aircraft!:ok:
Forum: Flight Testing
12th Nov 2009, 16:24
Replies: 15
Views: 4,280
Posted By FlightTester

Recognised TP Schools...

Empire TPS (UK)
French Air Force TPS (France)
Naval TPS (US)
USAF TPS (US)
National TPS (US)

Short courses run anywhere from two to thirteen weeks. Graduate courses are a year. Diploma runs...
Forum: Flight Testing
12th Nov 2009, 15:58
Replies: 7
Views: 1,473
Posted By FlightTester

Does it have to be a PAPI

or can you use a PLASI?

http://www.devoreaviation.com/scripts/p.asp

Very useful piece of kit when carrying out initial tests of an aircrafts Steep Approach capability.
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Nov 2009, 18:27
Replies: 5
Views: 1,909
Posted By FlightTester

RAPTOR...

Resources available, assets deployed and operational... from this weeks Flight International (so no beadwindow calls please)

RAF hails performance of Tornado GR4 in Afghanistan...
Forum: Flight Testing
26th Oct 2009, 21:39
Replies: 4
Views: 3,461
Posted By FlightTester

Inertial Coupling...

...can also have some very interesting effects! The NF-104 was a classic example of unpredicted behaviour.

NF104 | Theory to Reality (http://www.nf104.com/stories/stories_04.html)

Up to that...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Oct 2009, 23:50
Replies: 18
Views: 10,578
Posted By FlightTester

Gone but not forgotten. I never knew Sean. Dick...

Gone but not forgotten. I never knew Sean. Dick was one of the finest gentleman aviators I ever had the pleasure of working with. Just an all round decent man.
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Oct 2009, 20:18
Replies: 20
Views: 8,308
Posted By FlightTester

Something to do with this maybe...

It's a great aeroplane in my opinion - carries about as much fuel as a Tornado but weighs a lot less when fueled to that amount. Also has much better engines than the Tonka, so maybe the reason...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Oct 2009, 17:25
Replies: 29
Views: 7,528
Posted By FlightTester

To be sure, the GR4 is no doubt getting long in...

To be sure, the GR4 is no doubt getting long in the tooth (it was when I left 31 Sqn is 2001), and I left the Typhoon Flt Test program prior to any of the gnd packages being tested. However, I'm not...
Forum: Flight Testing
6th Oct 2009, 15:10
Replies: 4
Views: 1,909
Posted By FlightTester

I know these guys have done some ground based ILS...

I know these guys have done some ground based ILS calibration for us, not sure if they also carry out the airborne checks or not...

Aviation Systems Maintenance, Inc....
Forum: Engineers & Technicians
30th Sep 2009, 17:21
Replies: 8
Views: 1,402
Posted By FlightTester

Ahh! Mk1 eyeball and climb to above 2000ft as...

Ahh! Mk1 eyeball and climb to above 2000ft as quickly as possible then!

I used to fly along the Penines quite a bit - Blackpool - Kirby Lonsdale - Lancaster - Blackpool. It's quite...
Forum: Engineers & Technicians
30th Sep 2009, 16:06
Replies: 8
Views: 1,402
Posted By FlightTester

Radar is capable of processing in 3D. So lets...

Radar is capable of processing in 3D. So lets think of this as a time/distance/speed equation. The blades are rotating at 200mph (speed), and they're 250ft high (vertical distance), therefore in 30...
Forum: Engineers & Technicians
30th Sep 2009, 14:57
Replies: 8
Views: 1,402
Posted By FlightTester

I'm not a radar boffin but.....

Over here in the wilds of Kansas we have a number of windfarms and a great deal of storm tracking doppler radars. The windfarms cause problems with the radar due to the echo from the blades - to be...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Sep 2009, 16:57
Replies: 115
Views: 14,737
Posted By FlightTester

Well ir's not like it's ever been done anywhere else is it...

...so long RCAF, and hello to:

Canadian Forces Recruiting - Recrutement Forces Canadiennes (http://www.forces.ca/)
Forum: Flight Testing
15th Sep 2009, 17:52
Replies: 22
Views: 6,209
Posted By FlightTester

To get the cold soak elements (without flight) covered you could try...

The McKinley Climatic Lab facility at Eglin AFB. We use them for hot and cold weather testing, where we don't have a requirement to fly immediately after the soak. Running engines, APU's etc in the...
Forum: Flight Testing
2nd Sep 2009, 19:18
Replies: 16
Views: 2,921
Posted By FlightTester

Why would it get into a spin in the first place? ...

Why would it get into a spin in the first place? Most likely scenario (on our aircraft) is a deep stall - aircraft is either on it's back or severly nose up and dropping like a rock. We run grab...
Forum: Flight Testing
28th Jul 2009, 15:16
Replies: 16
Views: 2,921
Posted By FlightTester

ICT SLB has nailed it, and hopefully I never get...

ICT SLB has nailed it, and hopefully I never get to try any of the posted methods.:)

Once the aircraft is depressurized we would transfer to our own oxygen supply contained within the parachute...
Forum: Flight Testing
29th May 2009, 17:11
Replies: 5
Views: 1,581
Posted By FlightTester

Oh that's harsh banter that is - I look at the...

Oh that's harsh banter that is - I look at the hard drive at least two times a flight - once when I switch the archive on and once when I switch it off.:)
Forum: Military Aviation
28th May 2009, 19:08
Replies: 60
Views: 32,950
Posted By FlightTester

If I recall the subsequent BOI correctly there...

If I recall the subsequent BOI correctly there was some mention of "There I was at 2000ft when the master caution illuminated, I looked down to the CWP to see what had caused it, and when I went...
Forum: Flight Testing
22nd May 2009, 16:03
Replies: 23
Views: 22,580
Posted By FlightTester

MFS It's not going to work - we always...

MFS

It's not going to work - we always abreviate Wind Up Turn to WUT, so it follows that we'll do the same with Wind Up Stall. WUT is OK, but WUS?:)
Forum: Military Aviation
15th May 2009, 16:13
Replies: 13
Views: 4,152
Posted By FlightTester

Sorry for the thread creep, but as an ex-DF -...

Sorry for the thread creep, but as an ex-DF - what's the address of that pet store! ;)
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th May 2009, 16:59
Replies: 10
Views: 3,029
Posted By FlightTester

Seconded:ok::D

Seconded:ok::D
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd May 2009, 17:49
Replies: 10
Views: 2,854
Posted By FlightTester

Slotback - you're absolutely right! As Wrathmonk...

Slotback - you're absolutely right! As Wrathmonk points out, it seems that the place to discuss operational matters of the type that SRENNAPS question referred to is in fact the MoD's very own...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Apr 2009, 16:49
Replies: 3
Views: 1,153
Posted By FlightTester

Tarnish, Beat me to it Cheers ...

Tarnish,

Beat me to it

Cheers

(Ex) Boffin
Forum: Flight Testing
27th Apr 2009, 19:01
Replies: 10
Views: 1,993
Posted By FlightTester

E-Jet

As far as I recall Company E did their work-ups at Blythe, CA.
7.5 degrees - easy from the back of the cab, calling GS all the way down to the co-pilots call of "idle" at screen height, ahh what...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Apr 2009, 17:20
Replies: 38
Views: 25,767
Posted By FlightTester

Gentlemen, I think we have a winner!:D:D:ok:

Gentlemen, I think we have a winner!:D:D:ok:
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