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Forum: Rumours & News
13th Mar 2019, 05:39
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,102,363
Posted By TacomaSailor

What does the data say?

Non-pilot but expert number cruncher with a basic questions about the DATA shown in post 69 and several prior to that.

Looking at the ADS-B numbers, in ascending time sequence from the start of...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Feb 2019, 15:25
Replies: 78
Views: 40,938
Posted By TacomaSailor

I spent 25-years as a paying passenger on about...

I spent 25-years as a paying passenger on about 200 flights per year. I've flown in almost every commercial aircraft built in the last 60-years on every continent except the big white one. First...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Dec 2016, 23:17
Replies: 131
Views: 44,175
Posted By TacomaSailor

The cost of new Air Force One planes may be a...

The cost of new Air Force One planes may be a little more complex and difficult to manage than Mr Trump thinks.

The Puget Sound business press has a lot of information and dialogue about the cost...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Dec 2016, 17:20
Replies: 131
Views: 44,175
Posted By TacomaSailor

It is hard to understand what that $4B number...

It is hard to understand what that $4B number means in his thought process. Flight Global reports that the DoD has contracted for $127M for specification research and Boeing says the contract is...
Forum: Terms and Endearment
20th Sep 2016, 00:59
Replies: 53
Views: 20,462
Posted By TacomaSailor

I'm a little confused by all NO responses I've...

I'm a little confused by all NO responses I've read here. I am not a pilot but have two friends who are Captains on major US airlines. We spend a lot of time visiting here in the marina, drinking...
Forum: North America
3rd Apr 2016, 06:09
Replies: 2
Views: 2,360
Posted By TacomaSailor

Previous owner of Aircraft was Matt Nokes, a...

Previous owner of Aircraft was Matt Nokes, a professional baseball player. In about 2000 he made an emergency landing in the same aircraft on the same freeway (I-15) about 10-miles south of this...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Nov 2015, 03:02
Replies: 131
Views: 40,246
Posted By TacomaSailor

Local San Diego TV news reports that a witness...

Local San Diego TV news reports that a witness helicopter pilot says the accident crew was trying to land on a dolly (news report called it a "portable landing pad"), which had no chocks or brakes to...
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Jul 2015, 05:33
Replies: 52
Views: 15,041
Posted By TacomaSailor

Scare over San Diego Bay

Sometime in early May this year I was sitting on my boat in San Diego Bay enjoying a beer. A bright red and black helicopter appeared over the bay near the USS Midway aircraft carrier at a 1000' or...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Mar 2015, 22:56
Replies: 259
Views: 134,678
Posted By TacomaSailor

A reality check for bags and evacuation

I am a big guy and barely fit in the seats available in the back of the bus

My business and professional life is in my computer

My wallet & passport are in my computer bag 'cause the airline...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 06:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,194,855
Posted By TacomaSailor

PMDG 777 Simulator Package

The transponder location, usage and FMS details are available for $90 US in a "BOEING Officially Licensed Product." Run the PMDG 777 sim package in FSX or Prepar3D on a $2000 PC and you have most...
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Mar 2014, 16:15
Replies: 71
Views: 19,996
Posted By TacomaSailor

Silence as it fell from platform?

Seattle PI (newspaper web site) is reporting:

"Gary Knapinski, a construction worker from Snohomish, said he was walking to his car when the helicopter dove to the ground.

A panhandler was...
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Nov 2013, 17:28
Replies: 53
Views: 29,350
Posted By TacomaSailor

Is the title on this thread accurate?

The New York Times article says:

"The move came after six incidents from April to November involving five 747-8s and one 787 in which aircraft powered by GE’s GEnx engines suffered temporary loss...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jul 2013, 07:12
Replies: 343
Views: 124,879
Posted By TacomaSailor

KSAN - Never an ILS for 27

KSAN 27 services 95% of the landings and has only a LOC and RNAV approach. The landing area is about 7950'. As far as I can tell there has never been an ILS available for 27.

DL, BA, HA, FedEx,...
Forum: ATC Issues
2nd Jul 2013, 23:15
Replies: 1
Views: 2,350
Posted By TacomaSailor

How does this happen?

I live on a boat in a marina just 800 meters south of the midpoint of the San Diego airport (KSAN). The KSAN controllers seem to consistently get a plane to land on rwy 27 within 20 seconds of a...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Apr 2013, 06:44
Replies: 9
Views: 2,492
Posted By TacomaSailor

No Smoke

but way more noise than the 727 Zero Gravity plane on takeoff and it appeared to be climbing briskly at 1000' over the waterway at the west end of the airport.

No data ever came up on FlightAware...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Apr 2013, 19:42
Replies: 9
Views: 2,492
Posted By TacomaSailor

VC-10 at KSAN - San Diego ??

I just watched (12:15 PM PDT) an all white plane take off on rwy 27 at KSAN - four engine rear mount - very noisy - couldn't see any numbers on it

It sure looked like a VC10 but I can find no...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Feb 2013, 20:26
Replies: 129
Views: 14,920
Posted By TacomaSailor

Two quotes: "Those who cannot remember the...

Two quotes:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" Santayana

“And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Jan 2013, 16:21
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,031,776
Posted By TacomaSailor

As stated above "when the battery goes off with a...

As stated above "when the battery goes off with a bang it produces Oxygen."


I suggest that those claiming that thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries produce oxygen in the off gasses would...
Forum: Tech Log
26th Jan 2013, 19:22
Replies: 1,100
Views: 261,492
Posted By TacomaSailor

Excellent Report with lots of destructive test data

I highly recommend “Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment”+:

http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/research/rflithiumionbatterieshazard.pdf

for those of you who really want to...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2013, 18:20
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,031,776
Posted By TacomaSailor

"...the National Transportation Safety Board said...

"...the National Transportation Safety Board said an examination of the data from the plane’s flight recorder indicated that the battery “did not exceed the designed voltage of 32 volts.”

I do...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Dec 2012, 17:07
Replies: 47
Views: 17,714
Posted By TacomaSailor

Not an infrequent occurence at KSAN - no big deal?

I occasionally hear the tower at KSAN issue altitude alerts to aircraft east of KSAN where there are many 3500' hills within 25 miles and on the published approaches to the sea level KSAN RWY 27.
...
Forum: Freight Dogs
2nd Jul 2012, 15:59
Replies: 7
Views: 7,596
Posted By TacomaSailor

Boeing Super Guppy to Seattle

Brought the NASA space shuttle trainer to Boeing Museum of Flight - June 30

For current pictures see:

Super Guppy, with space-shuttle trainer on board, touches down at Boeing Field | Local News...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2011, 16:41
Replies: 10
Views: 2,158
Posted By TacomaSailor

Can you answer a non-technical question for a non-pilot?

I am just a lurker who enjoys the technical and not so technical discussions I find on this forum.

How is it that you military folks, who regularly engage in life threatening activities, seem...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Dec 2011, 16:22
Replies: 115
Views: 33,367
Posted By TacomaSailor

Stick to aviation - not automotives

"... US auto makers have long since given up any illusion that they could do similar."

Mini - you may be a pilot but you don't have a clue about international automotive issues

Here is just one...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
9th Nov 2011, 00:49
Replies: 77
Views: 38,063
Posted By TacomaSailor

ALL research says grounded27 is incorrect

grounded27:

A recently published article in a professional health journal says:

"Our findings indicate that the motor component of information processing recovers during declining BACs, but it...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
8th Nov 2011, 01:28
Replies: 77
Views: 38,063
Posted By TacomaSailor

I can't believe what I am reading

I hold a US commercial drivers license and do long distance charter bus operations. We are FORBIDDEN to drink any alcoholic beverage from 12 hours before a trip until we park the bus and leave the...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Aug 2011, 17:51
Replies: 159
Views: 35,761
Posted By TacomaSailor

Observations from two other industries

Automation and the loss of human technical skills are wide spread throughout the industrial arena. The problems suffered in a cockpit are time sensitive and news worthy but those same problems occur...
Forum: Rotorheads
4th Aug 2011, 23:29
Replies: 133
Views: 148,828
Posted By TacomaSailor

A whole 'nuther world

In the mid '90s I was at the Fort Lauderdale boat show looking for a biggish sailboat. I was working with a broker whose main business was very large yachts. I started hanging around boats in the...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Aug 2011, 19:00
Replies: 207
Views: 83,428
Posted By TacomaSailor

No tracks down the embankment?

I measure approximately 45 feet from the lip at the top of the embankment down to where the ground levels off under the tail. I see no tracks down that embankment in the photos in message 75.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st May 2011, 17:37
Replies: 178
Views: 169,897
Posted By TacomaSailor

B-2 flying low and slow in 1996

In summer 1996 several B-2s were seen flying low and slow around Puget Sound (Boeing/McChord AFB). I have rather detailed pictures I took of them from my boat. They were eerie looking but not...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
18th Apr 2011, 05:45
Replies: 5
Views: 2,962
Posted By TacomaSailor

Missed Approaches - why so many at KSAN?

Landing Go Around

I thought I knew a little about when and why a commercial aircraft would abort a landing and go around for another try. But, I’ve seen so many of them recently and from such low...
Forum: Freight Dogs
5th Apr 2011, 15:02
Replies: 19
Views: 15,431
Posted By TacomaSailor

Blonde response

Told my very blonde wife (college graduate who manages a very complex technical computing) environment) the joke. Her response?

"I don't get it"

scary but true
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2011, 19:34
Replies: 287
Views: 56,796
Posted By TacomaSailor

Recent early AM landing at RSW with no tower personnel - Unusual??

I (SLF) am confused about the commotion caused by the NORDO approach and landing at DCA the other night. The press is acting as if this is an unusual and dangerous situation. Professional pilots...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Nov 2010, 19:59
Replies: 91
Views: 25,485
Posted By TacomaSailor

Many SLF have been through even greater background checks

Several prior postings have touched on one of the issues that, if carefully considered, would show the unreasonableness and ineffectiveness of the airport security process vis-à-vis the countrywide...
Forum: Terms and Endearment
9th Jun 2010, 20:19
Replies: 69
Views: 17,579
Posted By TacomaSailor

Perspective from one who did not choose to pay to fly

In 2000 I sold a successful consulting business and, being in my early-50s, decided to start the career I had once pursued and still dreamed of – being a commercial pilot. In 1967 I was part of the...
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