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14th Feb 2023, 19:04
Replies: 38
Views: 20,843
Posted By Prober

I don't know what to say!

I had military flying for 4 years, mostly active service, with a fairly high attrition rate – by which I mean being killed – followed by 40 years of mostly fairly high pressure short haul flying....
9th Jan 2023, 19:11
Replies: 13
Views: 5,380
Posted By Prober

Rudder Ratio

MechEngr’s comments stirred my memory. Boeing pedals did move 100% but the rudder movement decreased due to the rudder ratio mechanism. However, many years ago, in the early days of the 757, a slow L...
20th Jul 2022, 20:51
Replies: 39
Views: 10,978
Posted By Prober

Briefcase

The old Vickers Vanguard (VC9) had access to the forward cargo bay from the flight-deck. There was carpet from the flight-deck door to the back of the 3rd pilot’s seat. If rolled back, this revealed...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd May 2022, 13:23
Replies: 7
Views: 1,345
Posted By Prober

Thank you all, especially alf/h for the detailed...

Thank you all, especially alf/h for the detailed response. I agree, no conclusion can really be reached - the size of the queue rushing to get on will settle the argument and we can leave the thread...
Forum: Tech Log
1st May 2022, 18:37
Replies: 7
Views: 1,345
Posted By Prober

School Project

Thanks, T54A and I will make a start there. The angle which I feel should be highlighted is not so much the disasters - we all hear about those, but it's the ones we do not hear about - the disasters...
Forum: Tech Log
1st May 2022, 11:40
Replies: 7
Views: 1,345
Posted By Prober

School Project

From 'Prober', one time P1 on VC9, HS25, B75/76 TRI.
So long retired I now no longer even get staff travel!
A grandson has a school project on the future of travel and he proposes examining the...
30th Mar 2022, 22:48
Replies: 44
Views: 24,241
Posted By Prober

PoM

Well, you can always mark the paperwork with "Reason for extra fuel .....PoM". It always worked for me.
Prober
20th Mar 2022, 10:56
Replies: 134
Views: 89,488
Posted By Prober

Ref post 116 from ".....gandar". It is all very...

Ref post 116 from ".....gandar". It is all very well calling for the checks but I wonder if 'he who did it, read it'. That used to be a golden rule - if you are reading a checklist for something...
14th Feb 2020, 05:16
Replies: 3
Views: 4,674
Posted By Prober

Wet Dubai

Some 15 years ago I was part of a service from Scandinavia to Dubai (and onwards) during the winter. I had three occasions to stop over in Dubai. On two of those occasions the cars were up to their...
6th Feb 2020, 16:05
Replies: 15
Views: 7,654
Posted By Prober

Question Balloons?

On the other hand, it was remarkably like something three of observed from the office of a particular three engine aircraft (known as "The Gripper") en route LHR-FBU many years ago. It crept up on us...
6th Jan 2020, 19:15
Replies: 503
Views: 433,819
Posted By Prober

Smelly Socks

I recall several entries I made in the tech log re smelly socks (whether old or new but unwashed I know not) when on the 757. It seemed to occur for a minute or two on the descent passing about...
16th Oct 2019, 17:47
Replies: 70
Views: 32,742
Posted By Prober

Elephant in the room

Robots, AI, single pilots (PTF possibly even sitting in some warehouse in a dismal industrial estate in the back of beyond) is all very well (well, is it?). But would the public, even the sweaty...
2nd May 2019, 22:53
Replies: 920
Views: 2,302,974
Posted By Prober

Unexpected TOGA

I must agree with Lonewolf50 (post 881) about actions subsequent to TOGA selection.

During my time on the 76 I twice experienced inadvertent TOGA selection, once by myself as PF and the other time...
17th Apr 2019, 15:53
Replies: 82
Views: 63,077
Posted By Prober

Thumbs down Idle

Many years ago in the halcyon days of flight deck visits, some of my children were allowed into my office. They went back to the "management" and reported "Daddy's sitting there doing nothing!" They...
16th Apr 2019, 10:16
Replies: 82
Views: 63,077
Posted By Prober

Thumbs up Quite right

The crew was in line at a US immigration desk. The man behind the desk barked “What are you, Prober?” My rather startled look caused my F/O to step forward and explain that his captain was a...
20th Jan 2019, 22:50
Replies: 76
Views: 72,189
Posted By Prober

Commonality

Quote from post #10. "The 757 and 767 don't share a Type Certficate."
Spelling apart (see me after), All my recurrency checks on the 757/767 were done in either a 757 or 767 sim, whichever just...
20th Jan 2019, 22:27
Replies: 76
Views: 72,189
Posted By Prober

Commonality

Commercially it must be a winner if one can achieve commonality. TDRacer’s comments about the 757/767 are relevant here. I was current on both and found them to be two quite different aircraft – but...
8th Dec 2018, 14:07
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,450,645
Posted By Prober

Pages and pages of discussion have still not...

Pages and pages of discussion have still not satisfactorily explained the problem. It is more and more starting to look like a questionnaire on an application form for the ETPS (with a caveat – do...
25th Sep 2018, 10:47
Replies: 28
Views: 17,597
Posted By Prober

No pressurization on T/O

Having twice experienced no pressurization on T/O - on 757 due icing up of the outflow valve - not only are there warnings for this, though I am not familiar with the 73, surely, surely! the crew...
13th Sep 2018, 17:56
Replies: 15
Views: 6,542
Posted By Prober

Thumbs up No(se) Wheel

Many years ago, taxying out at AMS, the aircraft ahead of us (73-200 IIRC) lost a nosewheel turning on to line up for immediate T/O. I called the tower and eventually (after what seemed a very long...
31st Mar 2018, 13:34
Replies: 73
Views: 46,494
Posted By Prober

Talking of Fans

#40
Not to mention the N1 of a 757 which landed on a pig farm in (IIRC) Wokingham. First recorded time of the fan hitting the sh1t.:{
Prober
28th Dec 2017, 21:34
Replies: 43
Views: 69,226
Posted By Prober

Antice

Never having flown the ATR I am not qualified to comment. However, the thread seems to have drifted to ant-ice in general and, as this is a forum from which, in the absence now of a company “horror...
20th Dec 2017, 10:12
Replies: 100
Views: 127,703
Posted By Prober

The magenta argument

The report also says (Para 1.17)
“The operator acknowledged that its Airbus crews were generally not well trained on manual approaches due to the routine practice of using automatic systems.”:(...
22nd Nov 2017, 20:46
Replies: 50
Views: 29,800
Posted By Prober

11 m/s

I only experienced one ‘for real’ emergency descent on a certain 3 engined aircraft, the outer 2 engines of which could use reverse in the air. With Nos 1 & 3 at max reverse and No 2 at idle, the...
20th Nov 2017, 17:35
Replies: 145
Views: 98,473
Posted By Prober

Clear to Land

In answer to Estoril M (#150), try LHR. On a clear night you will see lines of aircraft going back 20 miles. Having been based there for 25 years, it was always with a warm feeling that one threw...
22nd Oct 2017, 20:02
Replies: 271
Views: 115,271
Posted By Prober

We do not know where V1 was. Almost certainly it...

We do not know where V1 was. Almost certainly it had passed some way back and thus there would have been no question of stopping at that rather late point on the runway. It would seem as if there was...
17th Aug 2017, 21:39
Replies: 231
Views: 83,937
Posted By Prober

Dubai G/A (not)

Airmanship seems to have been thrown out of the window. Who on earth would command a G/A and not monitor the thrust levers (by feel if nothing else)? Further B’s training demands checking the FMA’s...
Forum: Middle East
20th Jul 2017, 22:59
Replies: 159
Views: 91,072
Posted By Prober

Offset

At any airfield where the inbound and outbound airway is shared, why not stipulate that, within a given radius, all flights will offset by, say, 1 mile right? (Or left, if you are that way inclined.)...
22nd Jun 2017, 10:00
Replies: 50
Views: 45,667
Posted By Prober

Having all these gizmos is all very well, but...

Having all these gizmos is all very well, but there is no real substitute for a good rule of thumb and a knowledge of the real (actual - not what they tell you) weight of the aircraft. I have very...
26th May 2017, 22:11
Replies: 56
Views: 36,685
Posted By Prober

Slats

#19. trident - slats???:{
Prober
27th Apr 2017, 08:02
Replies: 484
Views: 590,020
Posted By Prober

Five months to produce credible loadsheets?...

Five months to produce credible loadsheets? Surely not!:E
5th Dec 2016, 21:22
Replies: 1,096
Views: 1,231,630
Posted By Prober

Sticking to the rules

Some (many) years ago now I was involved in a ‘fill-in’ contract in that part of the world. Though years have passed, I very much doubt that any attitudes have changed. The reason for our contract...
26th Oct 2016, 17:16
Replies: 23
Views: 16,807
Posted By Prober

Translations

Zerograv

I agree with your comment. I tried putting the translation into the translator and it came back saying "Clear as mud". In other words, just like the original.
22nd Oct 2016, 15:57
Replies: 35
Views: 18,076
Posted By Prober

Standing under wings

You really do need some technical knowledge here. If there is an hydraulic heat exchanger in one of the wings, then any ice forming due to cold soak during the previous flight will rapidly melt and...
30th Sep 2016, 09:27
Replies: 4
Views: 2,731
Posted By Prober

Typhoon Gusts

rak64. I find your post very interesting. In all my 50 years plus in aviation, I have never heard this. My tropical flying was always very equatorial, so typhoons never bothered us – only flying...
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