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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Nov 2023, 02:02
Replies: 409
Views: 113,039
Posted By SLFstu

Re @roundsounds comment about the “thoughtless...

Re @roundsounds comment about the “thoughtless idiot” guy:

Who - my non-hero? Don’t think so, his FB profile was full of stupid memes, conspiracy theory crap and general unpleasantness. Charming,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Nov 2023, 11:55
Replies: 409
Views: 113,039
Posted By SLFstu

Doesn't take long for the trolls to try to milk a...

Doesn't take long for the trolls to try to milk a tragedy.
Reported a random dude's FB post for mocking the female QF pilot who was in 1 of the seats in VH-DQJ.
How did he do that - by linking a...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
18th Feb 2023, 16:51
Replies: 672
Views: 614,317
Posted By SLFstu

25-hour FDR + a FR24 flightpath of a circling app by a different Yeti tail #

Non-pilot here.
Noted in the report in section 1.8.4 about flight recorders is that the investigators were able to go back to a previous flight (on January 12) by the accident AC, with a different...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Oct 2021, 09:25
Replies: 1,268
Views: 248,529
Posted By SLFstu

Mmm, I've got an example of the opposite, from...

Mmm, I've got an example of the opposite, from the Apple Isle. Dentist neighbour (mandatorily vaccinated) answered the phone this past week and was shocked to hear the caller request an...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Sep 2021, 15:09
Replies: 52
Views: 25,738
Posted By SLFstu

You are correct of course. I too had omitted my...

You are correct of course.
I too had omitted my "/sarc" marks for that sentence of mine.
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Sep 2021, 14:54
Replies: 52
Views: 25,738
Posted By SLFstu

Easy as. Remove the dizzy cap. LOL. Spose they...

Easy as. Remove the dizzy cap. LOL.
Spose they cut the looms & removed the guts of the avionics. Oh and the wipers of course!
What an incredible loss of coin.
When the US military turned OFF the...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st May 2019, 17:59
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,576
Posted By SLFstu

SDR database lists 42 AoA faults on all Boeings in last 15 years

Some posters in this thread have wondered if reliability stats exist for AoA sensors.

Apparently the FAA mandates that for US operators all aircraft faults that require maintenance actions are to...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2019, 07:02
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,258,576
Posted By SLFstu

MCAS fired a blank

(From an ex hardware/software tech writer) - a comment about software rather than aeronautics. If the timeline story (CVR derived) in comparison to the FDR traces is accurate, here is something weird...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Dec 2018, 17:50
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,474,915
Posted By SLFstu

CVR pinger designed to transmit for 90 days

To which @patplan stated: “…It was designed to last 30 days give and take….”

Not true. The correct answer is 90 days. Otherwise patplan's comments (post #1923...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Nov 2018, 22:03
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,474,915
Posted By SLFstu

I have a recollection that at an early media...

I have a recollection that at an early media conference investigators said for the sector into Denpassar the pilots had no airspeed data showing the whole flight.
We more or less know what happened...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Nov 2018, 14:23
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,474,915
Posted By SLFstu

Nobody knows what role the technician played on...

Nobody knows what role the technician played on the flight, unless any specific "maintenance-type" actions might be traceable on the DFDR. For all we know, perhaps he was not even in the cockpit....
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Nov 2018, 22:35
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,474,915
Posted By SLFstu

Was MCAS certified?

Non-flyer here, sticking my neck out.

I note that tdracer and DaveReidUK provided clout about certification methodology in recent posts.

My source docs,
* B737 TC...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Nov 2018, 14:47
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,474,915
Posted By SLFstu

RE: That allied pilot's link

Halfnut's post (link: https://www.pprune.org/showpost.php?p=10307740&postcount=978) which included *completely new information* sourced from Boeing about the MCAS system was quoting a slightly...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Aug 2017, 04:16
Replies: 1,219
Views: 780,464
Posted By SLFstu

GF Yegods, no one's raised the stakes to this...

GF
Yegods, no one's raised the stakes to this extreme, yet. Though as I pointed out in an earlier post CA's top insurance lawmaker was none too pleased after learning why his AC579 flight did a...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Aug 2017, 03:26
Replies: 1,219
Views: 780,464
Posted By SLFstu

Nup. Therefore in aviation incidents that...

Nup.
Therefore in aviation incidents that should remove at least one hole from the swiss cheese - self-preservation. No?
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Aug 2017, 01:24
Replies: 1,219
Views: 780,464
Posted By SLFstu

In response to Old Carthusian's most recent post...

In response to Old Carthusian's most recent post you wrote:

Disclosure - non-pilot opinion. Oh and I work in a life/death safety critical industry too. I signed up knowing that if I stuff up,...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Aug 2017, 12:41
Replies: 1,219
Views: 780,464
Posted By SLFstu

Ahh, sorry folks for the delay, we went around due to traffic at the airport

Disclosure: not a pilot, nor a reporter or a media sympathizer, just a dude from downunder.

Can't see that The Mercury News ever claimed to be an authority on air accidents or near misses....
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jul 2017, 08:20
Replies: 1,219
Views: 780,464
Posted By SLFstu

GPS equipped because of Halifax?

Yes it’s an early ac. And, according to FlightAware, leased to them. In a recent media release responding to the TSB report on the Halifax crash, AC said they are in a GPS upgrade program for their...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Feb 2017, 17:54
Replies: 34
Views: 21,135
Posted By SLFstu

On Feb 18 tech log quoted Simon's AVH update to...

On Feb 18 tech log quoted Simon's AVH update to the "non-incident":
"Update Feb 14th 22:09Z: Following the release of our coverage the video author has removed the video."

Ah not so much - once...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Dec 2016, 23:37
Replies: 12
Views: 10,487
Posted By SLFstu

HT, you are aware the MD-88 has it's own...

HT, you are aware the MD-88 has it's own airstairs behind the aft cabin door, right? If not you can always check the photo :ugh:
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2016, 16:04
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,785,099
Posted By SLFstu

Copy/paste from Boeing?

@GNS APPROACH
Extreme nose-down attitude

Boeing drivers would no doubt be aware, but for the rest of us, including interested lurkers like me, don’t you think you should have acknowledged the...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Nov 2015, 05:29
Replies: 2,082
Views: 2,501,079
Posted By SLFstu

Tailcone attachment | Firebottle dents

Clean Break?
Intruder asked "How do you get such a clean break all the way around that tail cone? Is that seam an engineered weak point?" (#594).

...to which oleostrut (#595) postulated that the...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Apr 2015, 12:06
Replies: 106
Views: 117,967
Posted By SLFstu

Good video here taken from further down the...

Good video here taken from further down the strip.
https://youtu.be/QEkKmzdiNfs

And good to see that the front slide deployed 15 seconds after AC came to a standstill, with the left rear soon...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2015, 19:25
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,372,094
Posted By SLFstu

KL ATC graveyard shift staffing "arrangements"

From page 94 of the Factual Report - 16 controllers were on the floor until midnight, after which half were sent off for a 3 hour sleep (or smoke or feed or whatever). Significantly for the region of...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2015, 14:27
Replies: 748
Views: 715,074
Posted By SLFstu

Relight impossible with zero fuel flow!

Note - read with caution: 1st post from a non airman.

First QRH check item in an ENG RESTART IN FLIGHT is:
FUEL SUPPLY .............. CHECK.
(OK, admittedly my source used is the ATR 72-500's...
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