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Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
23rd Jan 2023, 13:42
Replies: 672
Views: 612,458
Posted By GlueBall

Probable Visual Approach In VMC

hans66; How does this compare with any relevant published procedures?

The video shows the weather to be sunny VMC, so it's conceivable that the crew could have requested and flown a visual...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Feb 2021, 11:12
Replies: 75
Views: 44,111
Posted By GlueBall

To all of us aviators it must be self evident...

To all of us aviators it must be self evident that the Wuh Flu didn't arrive in Europe on a springless donkey cart but aboard airplanes.

Irrespective of masks, gloves, goggles, face shields,...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2021, 11:23
Replies: 75
Views: 44,111
Posted By GlueBall

Pre Covid air travel will take years

It's hard to imagine a quick snap back of air travel after the pandemic. Primarily, because the end of the pandemic will not be uniform across the globe. Many poor countries will still be struggling...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Oct 2020, 09:40
Replies: 53
Views: 38,845
Posted By GlueBall

It's hard to imagine taking 66 jets abruptly off...

It's hard to imagine taking 66 jets abruptly off the line when as many available jets are roosting in the sun at VCV, plus the now recertified 34 Max jets.
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Oct 2020, 04:44
Replies: 38
Views: 11,601
Posted By GlueBall

The American government's relentless persistence...

The American government's relentless persistence of insulating companies and employees from an acute recession with mindless deficit spending is impractical reality.

Already before the pandemic,...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd May 2020, 14:46
Replies: 1,752
Views: 3,050,523
Posted By GlueBall

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/750x500/nrt_21_7_11_3fb2812db94e8cdebf70f46d846e61b23c24430d.jpg

You can "Kiss" the pavement without generating a significant flat spot. Enlarging...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Apr 2020, 08:20
Replies: 1,271
Views: 1,046,079
Posted By GlueBall

[/h1]...or pull the plug on impractical...

[/h1]...or pull the plug on impractical reality...because it's hard trying to make chickensalad out of chickensh|t. The share price is down 85% and market value is about $84 million. And that's below...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Apr 2020, 13:18
Replies: 1,271
Views: 1,046,079
Posted By GlueBall

"New Norwegian will be very much alive after...

"New Norwegian will be very much alive after corona, with a strong equity, a loss less debt and one of the newest and most environmentally friendly fleets out there. Restructured, but stronger than...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Mar 2020, 11:17
Replies: 89
Views: 50,918
Posted By GlueBall

The Covid-19 global "stay-at-home" lock-downs has...

The Covid-19 global "stay-at-home" lock-downs has amplified the work-from-home concept. More people are embracing the concept of less travel. The new bliss is to live, work and play at a nice place...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2020, 12:27
Replies: 685
Views: 1,732,774
Posted By GlueBall

So are you suggesting that this snafu was...

So are you suggesting that this snafu was completely different from the mistaken shoot-down of MH17 whose miss-identification was more likely? Do tell.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Dec 2019, 07:14
Replies: 502
Views: 160,873
Posted By GlueBall

So what are you telling us? That it’s normal just...

So what are you telling us? That it’s normal just to enter the flight plan’s coordinates into the Delco Carousel-4A or Litton-72 box, assuming that they’re the same as yesterday’s or last week’s and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
6th Dec 2019, 15:34
Replies: 502
Views: 160,873
Posted By GlueBall

A diligent crew would have found time to plot...

A diligent crew would have found time to plot their computer flight plan Lat/Long coordinates unto their Ross island RNC (Radio Nav) chart, connected the dots and then clearly seen that their track...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
6th Dec 2019, 07:00
Replies: 502
Views: 160,873
Posted By GlueBall

But after all has been said and argued, ask...

But after all has been said and argued, ask yourself: What was the captain doing at 1,500 feet at 260 Kts when nobody in the cockpit could see the 12,450 foot mountain.
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
7th Oct 2019, 00:48
Replies: 349
Views: 445,301
Posted By GlueBall

Airbubba says: My experience in flying...

Airbubba says:

My experience in flying four-engine jets has always been a case of EXCESS fuel burn with an engine shutdown, and I had never heard of any crews shutting down "one or two motors at...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Aug 2019, 10:23
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,779,311
Posted By GlueBall

Without having to THINK, an experienced captain...

Without having to THINK, an experienced captain with sufficient manual flying skills would not need to know if MCAS, ordinary runaway stab trim or ambiguous autopilot stab trim inputs were causing...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th May 2019, 01:02
Replies: 99
Views: 46,926
Posted By GlueBall

Captain BEagle . . . .

You're brave, dumb and conceited to think that your "rights" according to your civil ICAO IFR Clearance will prevail over instructions from a military controller.
Forum: Rumours & News
4th May 2019, 12:06
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,080,237
Posted By GlueBall

What's immediately clear and overwhelmingly...

What's immediately clear and overwhelmingly obvious is that when I'm pulling the control column to climb and the jet's not climbing but trimming nose down, is to stop the forward moving trim wheel...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Apr 2019, 13:04
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,080,237
Posted By GlueBall

Liftoff was at 5:38;00, 5:40:42 passing 305 kts,...

Liftoff was at 5:38;00, 5:40:42 passing 305 kts, 5:41:20 Clacker (VMO 340), 5:42:10 still found time to talk to ATC and change heading bug, ...that's 1:33 before impact, while nobody thought about...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Apr 2019, 08:42
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,080,237
Posted By GlueBall

GlobalNav - "...BS. There's not a crew in the...

GlobalNav - "...BS. There's not a crew in the world that doesn't make mistakes, but this crew did not act stupidly nor incompetently...."

So switching on the autopilot with the stick shaker,...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Apr 2019, 10:45
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,080,237
Posted By GlueBall

CurtainTwitcher;"They probably had the AT...

CurtainTwitcher;"They probably had the AT disconnect annunciator flashing away until the end."

"When I see that AT disconnect flashing for more than a few seconds, I know the person I am sitting...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2019, 14:02
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,080,237
Posted By GlueBall

Besides having made time during the 6+ minutes of...

Besides having made time during the 6+ minutes of flight to navigate (setting and resetting altitudes/headings) and to communicate multiple times with ATC, it's hard to conceptualize how at low...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2019, 06:27
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

V1rhot8 says: "What if they had a instrument...

V1rhot8 says: "What if they had a instrument problem that caused the aircraft to present bad attitude information (nose high). Next the crew adds max thrust and pushes forward on the control column...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Mar 2019, 09:26
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

Educated Airman says: "The question with Atlas is...

Educated Airman says: "The question with Atlas is what caused the un-commanded nose drop."

. . . Could you conceptualize that it may not have been uncommanded?
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Mar 2019, 14:33
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

​​​​​​Below 10,000 feet the pilots would normally...

​​​​​​Below 10,000 feet the pilots would normally be strapped in by the shoulder harnesses, making a full slump-over into the control column less likely.
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Mar 2019, 12:24
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

...Excluding "unlikely" scenarios such as...

...Excluding "unlikely" scenarios such as Germanwings 9525, Egyptair 990, Silk Air 185, etc . . . ?
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Mar 2019, 23:45
Replies: 7
Views: 6,946
Posted By GlueBall

Without confirmed smoke/fire/burning smell from a...

Without confirmed smoke/fire/burning smell from a lower compartment, I wouldn't be initiating an evacuation after just a warning indication.
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Mar 2019, 12:17
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

Conceivably, the ULB (pinger) is removed to...

Conceivably, the ULB (pinger) is removed to preclude activation during shipment of the recovered FDR/CVR.
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Feb 2019, 12:11
Replies: 920
Views: 2,315,531
Posted By GlueBall

DC-8 comes to mind.

DC-8 comes to mind.
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Nov 2018, 06:20
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,464,515
Posted By GlueBall

"Manual flight....you establish this as a recall...

"Manual flight....you establish this as a recall item during a UAS event.What is manual flight?AP/AT/FD are de-selected.You dont de-select trim....now you may well de-select trim if you recognize STS...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Nov 2018, 13:06
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,464,515
Posted By GlueBall

Icarus2001 . . .

Be careful with that as you wouldn't want to be circling to work the QRH while on fire.
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Oct 2018, 06:42
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,464,515
Posted By GlueBall

Hello Captain . . .

But that's why YOU have a brain to differentiate and sort it out in your mind, because not everyone here is an aviation professional.
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2017, 06:41
Replies: 1,634
Views: 673,430
Posted By GlueBall

Fly Offset

Across vast land masses and oceans without adequate ATC radar coverage, peace of mind suggests tracking .5 or 1 mile right of the airway. It's practical reality. :ooh:
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jan 2017, 15:34
Replies: 404
Views: 457,953
Posted By GlueBall

What the company says . . .

"The TC-MCL registered, BOEING 747-400 typed aircraft owned by our company, was on her route from HONG KONG to BISHKEK when it crashed over Kyrgyz airspace approaching BISHKEK-Manas Airport on...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Sep 2016, 10:58
Replies: 1,758
Views: 2,131,463
Posted By GlueBall

My ops manual includes a provision that does not...

My ops manual includes a provision that does not preclude common sense, which is to say that I could, for whatever exigent circumstances, justify landing long, for example, on a 14,500' pavement as...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Sep 2016, 16:59
Replies: 1,758
Views: 2,131,463
Posted By GlueBall

The PM had called "check speed" ...but at such a...

The PM had called "check speed" ...but at such a critical moment, his survival instinct should have shoved and held the thrust levers forward, irrespective of the captain's hand on the thrust levers....
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