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Forum: Rumours & News
29th Mar 2022, 21:54
Replies: 604
Views: 1,072,747
Posted By VFR Only Please

"Dormant" may be the key word. Certainly some...

"Dormant" may be the key word. Certainly some ex-Boeing people blew the whistle some years ago on manufacturing shortcuts that could enhance fatigue & erosion. Which would take time. Meanwhile,...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Mar 2022, 19:31
Replies: 604
Views: 1,072,747
Posted By VFR Only Please

Am guessing at least one non-Chinese party...

Am guessing at least one non-Chinese party (Boeing) will take part in this investigation.
A collision may be unlikely, but suppose that were the case. The Chinese would be reluctant, putting it...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Nov 2020, 20:57
Replies: 1,128
Views: 478,592
Posted By VFR Only Please

Let me put that more clearly then. The aircraft...

Let me put that more clearly then. The aircraft is what it is (all are) but whether you can Handle what it is depends, among other things, on your training. That's why they installed MCAS: so the...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Nov 2020, 17:19
Replies: 1,128
Views: 478,592
Posted By VFR Only Please

Anyone up for an ignorant question? Now I’m...

Anyone up for an ignorant question?
Now I’m reading articles in non-specialist press citing respected aviation writers saying that forward engine placement, etc. causes the MAX to pitch up...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Nov 2020, 17:16
Replies: 1,128
Views: 478,592
Posted By VFR Only Please

»Harry Stonecipher once boasted after merger with...

»Harry Stonecipher once boasted after merger with MD that he deliberately shifted Boeing's longtime culture "so it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm."«

Especially when...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Nov 2019, 20:23
Replies: 16
Views: 11,011
Posted By VFR Only Please

Great post, fdr. I'm an anglo but learned to...

Great post, fdr.
I'm an anglo but learned to fly in French, which put the shoe on the other foot, and listen to painful transmissions all the time.

Then there's the story of the exasperated...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Oct 2019, 22:00
Replies: 53
Views: 56,232
Posted By VFR Only Please

OK, this and a hundred other things I've heard...

OK, this and a hundred other things I've heard about Ryanair. Can anyone explain why they haven't had a Major Disaster? Divine Suspension of the Law of Gravity?
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Oct 2019, 21:17
Replies: 56
Views: 19,970
Posted By VFR Only Please

Lots of interesting posts here. My...

Lots of interesting posts here.

My understanding of the 911 business is – current consensus – that contrails and often-ensuing stratus (same with ship exhaust) do more to prevent heat radiating...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Aug 2019, 10:12
Replies: 41
Views: 60,299
Posted By VFR Only Please

Saw this video yesterday. You can barely perceive...

Saw this video yesterday. You can barely perceive a fire, except from what might have been lit by his exhaust on that hill.

Just last week a guy in southern France did the deed flying a converted...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Aug 2019, 13:47
Replies: 49
Views: 26,066
Posted By VFR Only Please

Yeah, I suppose Prof. Francis dug her...

Yeah, I suppose Prof. Francis dug her professorship out of a crackerjack box. So if the statement that air tends to want to flow downhill is "silly gumpf", perhaps you could explain why air pressure...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Aug 2019, 22:57
Replies: 49
Views: 26,066
Posted By VFR Only Please

Dunno. And of course I have no blessed memory of...

Dunno. And of course I have no blessed memory of where I read that.

Instead, I found this brief thing (5 min.) on youtube by a meteorology prof at Rutgers, who makes much the same points.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Aug 2019, 16:33
Replies: 49
Views: 26,066
Posted By VFR Only Please

Beautifully crafted strawman. Who said that...

Beautifully crafted strawman. Who said that climate doesn't change all the time?
But to paraphrase 777Nine, what a strange thing that this (sudden massive Arctic melt, whatever) is happening on a...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jul 2019, 20:23
Replies: 75
Views: 78,714
Posted By VFR Only Please

There were many reports following the accident...

There were many reports following the accident from hotel staff and others in Rio saying that the captain appeared absolutely exhausted, or ill, when he left for the flight. (I Think he'd been out on...
Forum: Canada
24th Jul 2019, 20:26
Replies: 40
Views: 15,893
Posted By VFR Only Please

Great, an argument over Canadian politics. ...

Great, an argument over Canadian politics.

People who talk about "tax dollars" paying for these things need to bone up on modern monetary theory. That simply isn't how it works anymore, and hasn't...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jun 2019, 14:56
Replies: 45
Views: 61,762
Posted By VFR Only Please

I found the 32-year-veteran Boeing aeronautical...

I found the 32-year-veteran Boeing aeronautical engineer declaring that SHE had been avoiding the 787 pretty thought-provoking.



Dunno. If you have a bunch of drug-addled employees installing...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jun 2019, 21:38
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,808,246
Posted By VFR Only Please

And if you look at the legendary crashes of...

And if you look at the legendary crashes of yesteryear, quite a number were caused by flightdeck negligence. Need I recite them?



But if the '70s F/O had spent 1,000 hrs teaching amateurs like...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jun 2019, 12:02
Replies: 146
Views: 90,727
Posted By VFR Only Please

ii Well, free country and all that, Out. To...

ii

Well, free country and all that, Out. To paraphrase Will Rogers, I just know what I read in the scientific journals....
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Jun 2019, 19:19
Replies: 146
Views: 90,727
Posted By VFR Only Please

Homo Sapiens struggled for hundreds of thousands...

Homo Sapiens struggled for hundreds of thousands of years to gain a foothold -- two steps forward, one (or two) back -- almost dying out countless times, you can bet. Then along came the Industrial...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Jun 2019, 15:49
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,808,246
Posted By VFR Only Please

I've basically asked this same question before:...

I've basically asked this same question before: At what point does this become a dead horse they're flogging here? And the deader it gets, the worse it smells. And the worse the PR.

Unfortunately...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th May 2019, 13:06
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

I think you're Bang On. Boeing is wedded (no,...

I think you're Bang On. Boeing is wedded (no, welded) to the Max and simply lacks the means to turn back now. Its only option is to forge ahead and utter no word that hasn't first been examined by...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 22:29
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

I have Zero credibility LOL. My handle on this...

I have Zero credibility LOL. My handle on this forum is designed to be upfront about that.

No quarrel with L39 Guy's post. Even this: "Boeing erred with MCAS but the fault for these accidents are...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 20:36
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

I read in the aviation press a remark from a guy...

I read in the aviation press a remark from a guy with 12,000 hours on the 737, a sim instructor, who said he'd often seen airspeed drop off a crew's scan in circs far less stressful -- and confusing...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 17:11
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

Apparently there are 200-hour pilots out there...

Apparently there are 200-hour pilots out there flying nuclear-armed aircraft. So I've heard. Simulators have come a long way, thousands of hours of teaching people to fly single-engine airplanes...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 15:34
Replies: 157
Views: 174,021
Posted By VFR Only Please

Fully agree. All commercial interests are eager...

Fully agree. All commercial interests are eager (though nervous in their heart of hearts) to get the thing back in the air. (If you fly from Winnipeg to Saskatoon these days, you might find yourself...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 10:23
Replies: 157
Views: 174,021
Posted By VFR Only Please

Seems to me there's no getting away from Boeing...

Seems to me there's no getting away from Boeing having "broken" the 737 by overtweaking it into a stall-happy monster, which then needed to have that proclivity Fixed.

The original Fix wasn't good...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2019, 21:15
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

Ignorant question: What is the practical use of a...

Ignorant question: What is the practical use of a "disagree light"?? I suppose it means watch your workload increase as you continually assess your pitch attitude vis-à-vis the airflow in an aircraft...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2019, 20:11
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

TacomaSailor, I don't know the answers to your...

TacomaSailor, I don't know the answers to your questions, and doubt anyone here Knows For Sure.

There is something in the US called the Aviation Safety Reporting System. It's run by NASA,...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2019, 18:48
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,324
Posted By VFR Only Please

Perhaps from the circumstance that the engines...

Perhaps from the circumstance that the engines are now mounted so far forward that application of power within the normal envelope sends the aircraft into stall territory?
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Jun 2015, 12:26
Replies: 272
Views: 115,935
Posted By VFR Only Please

Ideology -- once impregnated in people's brains...

Ideology -- once impregnated in people's brains -- is hard to dislodge.
I don't know about other industries, but as long as people like Michael O'Leary are setting the trends in the airline world,...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th May 2015, 21:20
Replies: 3,543
Views: 5,640,568
Posted By VFR Only Please

Requiring a flight attendant to wait on the...

Requiring a flight attendant to wait on the flight deck while one of the pilots is out seems like a reasonable, unrevolutionary precaution.
Nobody wants to be the ones who allow the next GW either.
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Dec 2014, 17:23
Replies: 1,644
Views: 2,239,969
Posted By VFR Only Please

Unless the police wait till a high-profile victim...

Unless the police wait till a high-profile victim is passing on the street, then open fire on the heavily armed perp.
It has been suggested that the Ukrainians carried out an airstrike timed to be...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jul 2014, 12:44
Replies: 1,644
Views: 2,239,969
Posted By VFR Only Please

Perhaps we can. In the meantime, what would be...

Perhaps we can.
In the meantime, what would be wrong with serious answers to those 10 qestions? If the implied allegations can be dispelled by means of those answers, what would be wrong with that?
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jun 2014, 21:47
Replies: 119
Views: 68,226
Posted By VFR Only Please

You're so right. I fly out of an uncontrolled...

You're so right. I fly out of an uncontrolled airport in France. Whenever there's an English-speaker on the frequency, I make two calls, one in each language.

And Plastic787, dig the difference...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Mar 2014, 20:01
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,371,168
Posted By VFR Only Please

Really? Shouldn't that be the Gulf of Thailand, a...

Really? Shouldn't that be the Gulf of Thailand, a much bigger body of water?
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2013, 19:31
Replies: 480
Views: 160,411
Posted By VFR Only Please

It's always seemed to me that reading back a...

It's always seemed to me that reading back a clearance in a slightly different way (i.e. not just word-for-word parroting of the controller's instructions) to show you've understood is a good idea....
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