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Forum: Rumours & News
1st Apr 2019, 16:25
Replies: 30
Views: 21,985
Posted By Leightman 957

Excellent post glo. Thank you. Your specific...

Excellent post glo. Thank you. Your specific points are unfortunately systemic to 'advanced' design, not merely in aviation, and the trend is accelerating. Meanwhile aviation accidents are reliable...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2019, 17:22
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,118,996
Posted By Leightman 957

Automation surprise

RE Ian:
Full pdf doc here:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33664589.pdf
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Jun 2016, 16:08
Replies: 1,184
Views: 2,630,808
Posted By Leightman 957

I'm amazed at the fuel dye proponents, for the...

I'm amazed at the fuel dye proponents, for the reasons given so far. There's no reason to dye all fuel when it is needed only for the downed A/C. Dye also isn't a lot better than an oil slick and no...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2016, 00:18
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,778,501
Posted By Leightman 957

"scissors" = "shear", no? Help from our...

"scissors" = "shear", no?

Help from our Russian friends would be useful.
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Mar 2016, 20:26
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,778,501
Posted By Leightman 957

Very rough Google translation of spitfire's link,...

Very rough Google translation of spitfire's link, request fluent speaker:

Became known to the crew last word "Boeing", crashed in Rostov-on-Don. They do not reveal the whole story of what...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Nov 2015, 02:10
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

Vid @ 8:58

Different damage type than the L HS. Appears some of center section remains...hard to tell, but the bend up at the root is probably deformed aluminum holding the bend so suggests that's the failure...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Nov 2015, 18:21
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

HS top? LE?

Ok, thanks FDM, LE/TE very clear by your pic. Deleted all previously written in this post, except: So What caused the flutter? Control linkage failure? HS pivot failure?

Very difficult to imagine...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Nov 2015, 17:06
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

HS second pic

Kulver, Thanks so much for your continuing supply of photos. Your last HS pic at 1790 shows a LOT of leading edge damage not previously visible. The damage is generalized along the visible length (as...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Nov 2015, 16:53
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

What it wasn't

After 1800 posts is a lot of certainty by posters had emerged, yet the current set of posted conclusions are significantly divided in direct opposition. A lot of certainty is going to eventually be...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Nov 2015, 14:58
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

Shorn HS

I find it odd that the discovery of the HS pieces (I still haven't seen pics of both) has been met with quick general prune agreement that they failed in direct shear due to aerodynamic forces from...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Nov 2015, 15:01
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,496,068
Posted By Leightman 957

VS HS attach

Ignoring for the moment the reported wide differences of pax injuries fore to aft, the fuselage attach points of the VS spar and HS are proximal and designed to distribute the highest loads in the...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Apr 2015, 19:09
Replies: 3,543
Views: 5,597,317
Posted By Leightman 957

Another 25 testing areas

The many mentions of possible investigative intrusions into every aspect of a pilots life represent more ways a pilot may be incorrectly deemed unfit to fly. Those intrusions are all valid because we...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Mar 2015, 01:03
Replies: 3,543
Views: 5,597,317
Posted By Leightman 957

RE FDR not recovered, no point of impact, depression, recurrence?

Previous posts note that it is the FDR memory, not the FDR chassis, which remains missing.Just saying.

“No point of impact” is assumed because one has not been published and there is no apparent...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Mar 2015, 16:15
Replies: 3,543
Views: 5,597,317
Posted By Leightman 957

The total environment

Great post Mark Beacon (currently 2390). Trust, wisdom, familiarity with the team, all in decline. I could tell a similar story. Trust amplifies when it is given, but has a hard time growing when not...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2015, 21:24
Replies: 3,543
Views: 5,597,317
Posted By Leightman 957

Altitude set once or more than once?

I have read all the posts before posting. I wish others did. I have not seen a resolution to whether the altitude set was made one time only, just before the beginning of descent, or whether there...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Feb 2015, 22:14
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Expectations vs reactions

RetF4 thanks for your several well thought out posts. But your conclusion that early stall avoidance may require uncomfortable and never before experienced sensations (dirt, papers, coffee, and...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Feb 2015, 01:45
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

The unstallable stall

Vilters, I don't mean to challenge you, rather to note there has been some lengthy previous conversation--correction--broadsides right here regarding whether a deep stall of long duration was even...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Feb 2015, 16:18
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

RE IanW's stack of manuals: I attended a local...

RE IanW's stack of manuals: I attended a local emergency planning meeting, with fire department, and city, county, and state officialdom. The city manual was 50 pages long. The mayor and I were the...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Feb 2015, 15:47
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Pilot confidence

Bubbers at 3156: "I think he means no pilot should depend on an autopilot so much that if it fails he cannot safely continue operating the aircraft manually from where the autopilot failed. MAA for...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2015, 20:38
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Clarification

Thanks for the clarification UF, but I think I understood what you meant. It may well have been me who was unclear. I have less concern about older pilots who came up through the ranks flying more...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2015, 18:22
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Pushing over

Uncle Fred: Even having been exposed to some of this training in the sim, I did not really take to heart what it would be like to have to push over that much at 350 and how I would have to be...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2015, 19:30
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

A320 fuel trim

A320 does not have an aft fuel trim tank. However to amend my earlier post, A320 CG does move with fuel consumption. So my question for Those Who Know remains somewhat the same: Would cg changes due...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2015, 16:07
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

RE Various posts

In the early 80's I believe NASA did some testing of deep stall characteristics using a single place T tail Schweitzer 1-36 which was modified to permit the horizontal stab to angle nose down to...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 19:01
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

SOP monkey

SOP monkey: "I do stand to be corrected, as the day I stop learning, for me is the day to give up.."

I wish there was more evidence of this attitude in posts, and second the request for more...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2015, 03:31
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Argument bruhaha

Triskele: 'At 6:17 a.m. on Dec. 28, three minutes after air traffic control unsuccessfully tried to make contact and asked nearby aircraft to try to locate QZ8501, the A320 turned to the left and it...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2015, 17:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Trim

Nigel@2677: "An Airbus is slightly different.............it is not "trimming" as such, but aligning THS and Elevator to retain full elevator control."

But "full Elevator control" at an AOA (and...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jan 2015, 18:27
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Yes or no, cognitive

As more than one poster has pointed out, the continued emphatic Yes-they-do No-they-don't FMC arguments between people trained on and flying A320's IS having an effect on those not privy to front...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jan 2015, 02:01
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Recovery fail

Thanks for the video link Plumb Bob and FlyerBabe. There's not much there but its all we have. Slats appear retracted but they are there. I'm beginning to wonder what the point is in hauling the...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 22:50
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Wing images

I too think the video grab of the attempted hoist shows the underside of the wings. The pic I posted earlier appears to me to show the upper wing surfaces nearly intact, really quite amazing, while...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 20:42
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Wings pic

Different pic of wings and fuselage top I've not seen before:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q67265sv48qc4zt/wings%20as%20in%202.png?dl=0
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 18:25
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Video link

>@md80fanatic there is a YouTube video shown from the perspective of on the boat.

Video link please. I'm not finding it. I can't imagine there was any real confidence that given previous video of...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 17:37
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Climb authorization

RF4 at 2502: it has been stated many times that his increase in FlL request was denied. It's highly unlikely that he would initiate a unauthorized climb to move up to optimum .

And Lost in S...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Jan 2015, 02:37
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Radar spiral/circle

Is there any possibility of narrowing by calculation the number of possible attitude scenarios regarding only the last spiral or circle on the radar track? Time involved is somewhat uncertain, but an...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 19:05
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Why oh why

Saigon I completely understand the reasons why climbing near a cb would not be wise. The uniform opinions by posters here do nothing but confirm that. But we can't exclude that possibility as the...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 16:42
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,456,082
Posted By Leightman 957

Get there itis

Get-there-itis mostly results from the airline schedule which many people depend on. Leaving "sometime today when the weather is good" means passengers will flock to other carriers. A lot can happen,...
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