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Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
7th June 2026, 02:30
Replies: 304
Views: 102,086
Posted By scard08

As noted earlier...

As noted earlier (https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/671781-ual-169-hits-light-pole-approach-ewr-14.html#post12097465) in this thread, the captain didn't brief 3 reds. Let me quote the...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th May 2026, 03:15
Replies: 26
Views: 7,061
Posted By scard08

For NYC, might this effectively mean European...

For NYC, might this effectively mean European flights into JFK and Newark would have to land elsewhere? Is there any plausible way that that could happen? They are both top 20 in US passenger...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th May 2026, 02:02
Replies: 63
Views: 10,017
Posted By scard08

As in-flight entertainment options go, I think...

As in-flight entertainment options go, I think reading about baggage requirements would be well below the bottom of the list. So, no, that's not what happened :)
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
15th May 2026, 15:31
Replies: 133
Views: 38,578
Posted By scard08

If gatechecked...

If gatechecked (https://www.gatechecked.com/frontier-airlines-agent-blames-passenger-for-not-taking-bags-during-emergency-evacuation-11691) are to be believed then when one person asked a Frontier...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
4th May 2026, 03:02
Replies: 65
Views: 50,046
Posted By scard08

That is from July 2025 and doesn't really say...

That is from July 2025 and doesn't really say anything except that the coroner confirmed the names that were already public knowledge, and nobody is going to say anything until the AAIB report is out.
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
1st May 2026, 02:27
Replies: 13
Views: 3,226
Posted By scard08

This was not a drone strike. On the base leg the...

This was not a drone strike. On the base leg the pilot observed a drone about 1000' below them. They did not hit it. He said to ground something that was transcribed as "We hit a drone", but the...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th April 2026, 02:40
Replies: 45
Views: 23,249
Posted By scard08

This could be done by Spirit selling all of its...

This could be done by Spirit selling all of its assets to a new company that the government owns most of. The new company doesn't have to take on any debt. Any money the government pays for the...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th April 2026, 03:36
Replies: 14
Views: 3,074
Posted By scard08

Kirby floats United / American merger!?

Many news sites are suggesting that CEO Kirby floated the idea of United buying American to the President (which I assume would affect many pilots). Is approval of that even vaguely plausible? My...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
31st March 2026, 03:52
Replies: 2,078
Views: 1,329,209
Posted By scard08

If you look at the last ten seconds of the NTSB...

If you look at the last ten seconds of the NTSB right-seat cockpit view simulation then I would say yes, that shows a pitch up and the runway moves sharply down as PAT25 comes into view. I trust that...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
6th February 2026, 03:10
Replies: 164
Views: 82,835
Posted By scard08

If the crew say "request type I entire ship and...

If the crew say "request type I entire ship and type IV wings and tail" are they saying that they want the whole thing de-iced, and then just the wings and tail treated to prevent contamination...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
5th February 2026, 03:41
Replies: 1,792
Views: 1,105,558
Posted By scard08

So dual failure would be <1 per 10 billion engine...

So dual failure would be <1 per 10 billion engine flight hours. With ~100 million hours of commercial flight each year that might claim to be "once a century". I hope I got the maths right?

I...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
28th January 2026, 02:47
Replies: 37
Views: 14,704
Posted By scard08

The FR24 video is here here and a Youtube short...

The FR24 video is here here and a Youtube short with just the fall here Youtube short
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
25th January 2026, 02:03
Replies: 1,792
Views: 1,105,558
Posted By scard08

My first reaction to that would be to invert it...

My first reaction to that would be to invert it and say that the "other pilot" has to enable the second shutdown switch. Would that be rejected on the basis that if a pilot is incapacitated the pilot...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
25th January 2026, 01:54
Replies: 1,792
Views: 1,105,558
Posted By scard08

Don't blame the journalists. They are speaking to...

Don't blame the journalists. They are speaking to experts like the "the president of the Federation of Indian Pilots union" who is giving them the interpretation of the timings of the RAT deployment....
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd January 2026, 02:34
Replies: 135
Views: 95,330
Posted By scard08

aeroexplorer.com claim that the CVR has been...

aeroexplorer.com claim that the CVR has been released (I guess that it was introduced as an exhibit at trial and so became a matter of public record which could be requested from the court reporter...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
21st December 2025, 02:00
Replies: 1,247
Views: 861,880
Posted By scard08

Doesn't doing an inspection presuppose that the...

Doesn't doing an inspection presuppose that the investigation has gotten to where the issue is well enough understood to know exactly what the inspection should be looking for?
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
20th December 2025, 03:24
Replies: 2,078
Views: 1,329,209
Posted By scard08

This has an interesting assertion that because...

This has an interesting assertion that because the CRJ has ADS-B Out, the knee-mounted tablets of the helo pilots would have shown its position (meaning they had ADS-B In enabled?), but the helo...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
13th December 2025, 02:58
Replies: 2,078
Views: 1,329,209
Posted By scard08

I've been reading this thread for many months,...

I've been reading this thread for many months, and there were people in it (pilots and ATC) saying nothing would have changed if ADS-B Out was enabled in the helo. Isn't that what the House bill is...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
23rd November 2025, 03:03
Replies: 1,247
Views: 861,880
Posted By scard08

That is so easy to misunderstand! When I read the...

That is so easy to misunderstand! When I read the interim report I thought the spherical bearing should be spherical, not cylindrical. But the picture makes it clear.
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd November 2025, 02:29
Replies: 49
Views: 16,251
Posted By scard08

I think it is more like one or two major fires...

I think it is more like one or two major fires per year in car-carrying ships for the last decade, and only a few have sunk. The Felicity Ace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Ace) went down in...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
20th November 2025, 02:49
Replies: 276
Views: 173,797
Posted By scard08

Of course it is extremely unlikely for any given...

Of course it is extremely unlikely for any given flight. But there are maybe 100,000 GA flights each day, and most of those are jets so it means a million-to-one jet event happens every couple of...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
4th November 2025, 02:26
Replies: 27
Views: 5,525
Posted By scard08

1) Would this trigger TCAS to alert the Southwest...

1) Would this trigger TCAS to alert the Southwest crew? (I assume the helo has a transponder.)

2) Would the helo have TCAS, or in this case does the TCAS alert only go to one of the involved...
Forum: Tech Log
3rd November 2025, 18:06
Replies: 238
Views: 34,314
Posted By scard08

He's making it up. If you Google phrases like...

He's making it up. If you Google phrases like "ensures that any failure does not result in uncontrolled or dangerous" or "to prevent unintended thrust or hazardous output", which the poster asserts...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
29th October 2025, 02:11
Replies: 54
Views: 22,799
Posted By scard08

Well, sort of. It's not like Google were driving...

Well, sort of. It's not like Google were driving cars up mountains in Greenland to photograph them, but I would be amazed if the US military who deployed GPS decided that they didn't need to know...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd October 2025, 01:58
Replies: 238
Views: 34,314
Posted By scard08

[/list] I found this difficult to follow at...

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I found this difficult to follow at first, but indeed the report (https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/4173625/ao-2010-089_final.pdf) is reasonably clear. Section 2.4,...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
8th October 2025, 02:41
Replies: 22
Views: 10,329
Posted By scard08

Is it only 10? I have never read a BFU report...

Is it only 10? I have never read a BFU report before, but looking at Fig. 3, to me it says that the left-crosswind went from +10 kts to off-scale negative (i.e. right-crosswind) in the last five...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
3rd October 2025, 03:18
Replies: 171
Views: 63,698
Posted By scard08

I don't think anyone was suggesting that ATC...

I don't think anyone was suggesting that ATC should have a web browser with FR24 open. The aircraft is broadcasting its position, and that means anyone can calculate its track, just like FR24 does....
Forum: Rumours & News
11th September 2025, 02:33
Replies: 58
Views: 16,974
Posted By scard08

I don't read this the way some other folks have...

I don't read this the way some other folks have commented on it. I think he knows the next administration can re-write everything, and is saying that the current administration only wants to invest...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th September 2025, 02:05
Replies: 30
Views: 6,918
Posted By scard08

The training staff will read the documentation...

The training staff will read the documentation created by the technical writers who read the system specs, the implementation notes left by the developers, and have conversations with a few...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th August 2025, 02:41
Replies: 769
Views: 178,995
Posted By scard08

My search-fu fails me. Can you point me to...

My search-fu fails me. Can you point me to planning documents issued by NYC that describe these plans? Or plans from a city in the EU? (Some folks might appreciate links to plans for other cities.)
...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
17th August 2025, 03:53
Replies: 62
Views: 27,876
Posted By scard08

Agreed. The video credits audio to LiveATC, but...

Agreed. The video credits audio to LiveATC, but LiveATC do not even cover NCE. If they did, wouldn't there be an approach/tower handoff missing in that video? And the only folks with access to the...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th August 2025, 02:15
Replies: 80
Views: 29,606
Posted By scard08

Maybe they thought he was a flight risk :E

Maybe they thought he was a flight risk :E
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
12th July 2025, 04:21
Replies: 1,792
Views: 1,105,558
Posted By scard08

I hope this isn't too far off-topic, but a...

I hope this isn't too far off-topic, but a question raised a few times in the days after the crash was why we only had cell-phone video and foreshortened security camera footage from buildings near...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
6th July 2025, 03:14
Replies: 67
Views: 49,093
Posted By scard08

The Beeb...

The Beeb (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgj18nrnvzo) said last week that North Yorkshire Police are continuing their two-year investigation and have no other updates (which is unsurprising, I...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th July 2025, 02:47
Replies: 20
Views: 9,711
Posted By scard08

I realize that there is a joke here that I do not...

I realize that there is a joke here that I do not understand.

I get that procedure can require you to delay gear up for several minutes after takeoff (over-temperature stuff). But why does a...
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