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Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2020, 04:15
Replies: 152
Views: 70,803
Posted By wonkazoo

What is Airmanship??

This thread has sparked a thought, one that has lingered through the MAX saga.

What is "airmanship??"

I know what I think it means, and I know what a lot of posters here on PPRuNE think it...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Dec 2019, 17:28
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

OK, finally have a few minutes to hopefully...

OK, finally have a few minutes to hopefully answer this intriguing question. First caveat: I have not seen the movie as I assumed that it would be a hack description of an impossible event. That said...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Dec 2019, 03:01
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

I'm sorry, but your definitions and use are...

I'm sorry, but your definitions and use are somewhat innacurate or outright wrong. Perhaps as you say a cultural gap, but I own Neil WIlliams' book so I am aware of the terminology in the UK. To your...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 22:10
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Hi Gums, Sorry for the late reply- busy week...

Hi Gums,

Sorry for the late reply- busy week and a hockey tournament for kids so hadn't checked in for awhile.

It's a great question to ask, both to illuminate why this was not a possible out...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jul 2019, 03:30
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

No boofhead, you've got it completely backwards....

No boofhead, you've got it completely backwards. I'm going to go out on a limb here and speak for PilotMike and others: Our issue is that you are taking substantially incomplete information and...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jul 2019, 05:04
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

I think it is important to note that whether...

I think it is important to note that whether Boeing was the impetus or involved at all in the transition to ARs is sort of meaningless. The AR was the person(s) who were supposed to be the...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Jul 2019, 04:30
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

I lied.

I read your post Yoko-

And I laughed out loud. (You know us emotional folks- we do stuff like that...)

You honestly think that in the mayhem of that cockpit there was some fancy schmancy...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Jul 2019, 04:07
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

[/LEFT] Wrong on the first statement and...

[/LEFT]


Wrong on the first statement and wrong on the second. (And yes, I know MCAS runs for 9.2 seconds. Shocking that you would focus on that detail.)

I've elected to not read the rest of...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Jul 2019, 03:08
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Once again I have to respectfully state that you...

Once again I have to respectfully state that you are (to use your own vernacular) barking up the wrong tree in your quest to pin this on the crew.

I'll post the FDR traces link at the end of this...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Jul 2019, 03:16
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Perhaps training did apply, but your posit about...

Perhaps training did apply, but your posit about three out of the five is completely flawed and your claim that it was absolutely critical to what happened is simply unsupported in any way by your...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Jul 2019, 19:10
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

I have another indication. His account still...

I have another indication. His account still exists but he cannot post from it. I would offer more in the way of explanation but I am between a rock and a hard place and don't want to rock anyone's...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Jul 2019, 18:16
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

737 Driver's last post before his account was...

737 Driver's last post before his account was suspended was on May 11th.

Yoko1 joined PPRuNe on May 20th.

Unless 737 Driver has posts I cannot see, or Yoko1 posted before he joined their...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Jul 2019, 15:17
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!!

Mr. Yoko,

It’s 7:30ish where I live and I’ve spent a half hour or so wrangling though your voluminous contributions over the past day. I am going to engage once again because to fail to do so...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jul 2019, 07:01
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Yoko1 wrote the following 1,551 grammatically...

Yoko1 wrote the following 1,551 grammatically perfect words just a short while ago. 1,200 of them were posted within a span of just slightly more than 30 minutes. I write fast, in fact faster than...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jul 2019, 06:17
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Well said. One of the things that brought me...

Well said.

One of the things that brought me to PPRuNe maybe ten years ago was the fact that pretty much everyone who posted, from self-admitted SLF to 30,000 ATP flying heavy iron, all were...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jul 2019, 05:02
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Yeah, I could post counter-arguments a mile long...

Yeah, I could post counter-arguments a mile long but I'm not going to as there is no point. YokoDriver will characterize them once again and we can go round and round for hours but nothing will be...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Jul 2019, 05:58
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Technically there are already as many parked as...

Technically there are already as many parked as have been delivered. And a few more!! (Because they are all parked...)

This useless post brought to you by Light Always Airways. (LAA) "We spend...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Jul 2019, 05:49
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

Returning to the "They are among us" theme... ...

Returning to the "They are among us" theme...

I was browsing another thread on the 787 and shall we say, ahem, issues with its production when I stumbled across the following.

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Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jun 2019, 23:34
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,806,912
Posted By wonkazoo

RIP 737 Driver?? Born (Joined) April 6, 2019...

RIP 737 Driver??

Born (Joined) April 6, 2019
First post April 9, 2019
Died (Disappeared) May 11, 2019
Total Posts: 209
Posts per day: 5.91

To be clear: I'm not suggesting that Mr. Driver...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jun 2019, 05:19
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

I'm very sorry, I did not ignore this question on...

I'm very sorry, I did not ignore this question on purpose.

No, in 1996 cameras were not everywhere like they are today. I did video in my next airplane, which was a big deal at the time, but as to...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2019, 16:14
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

The real problem here in the US anyway is that...

The real problem here in the US anyway is that there is no statutory requirement that a prospective pilot ever experience a spin before becoming licensed. This is one reason (I believe) that stall...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2019, 04:19
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

You nailed it!! So much for my brilliant...

You nailed it!!

So much for my brilliant observational skills!!

Thank you for shutting that one down before anyone invested too much time in it!!

Cheers-
dce
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2019, 03:39
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

Beggs Muller is probably the best single approach...

Beggs Muller is probably the best single approach to spin recovery for all types of aircraft out there. It calls for power to idle, application of opposite rudder and, yes, hands off the stick....
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2019, 03:21
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

Interesting- I knew it didn't fully disappear but...

Interesting- I knew it didn't fully disappear but the mains look like they are much lower than they should be. There is clear daylight between the tops of the wheels and the wing. In any case I"ll...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2019, 02:09
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

Hiding in Plain Sight...

The post two above this shows something that I initially missed. Look at it- can you see what is there staring us all in the face??

Watch the video again- at the beginning of the film sequence the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jun 2019, 23:57
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

Fly Aiprt- you are disseminating false...

Fly Aiprt- you are disseminating false information that if used could get someone killed. Spins are not either a mystery or an infinite topic. In actual fact deep knowledge and understanding is...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jun 2019, 20:49
Replies: 72
Views: 61,829
Posted By wonkazoo

Yes, to a point. If you watch the video carefully...

Yes, to a point. If you watch the video carefully you will see that at no point does the PIC apply full opposite rudder and hold it. In fact the rudder changes places so much it is hard to understand...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th May 2019, 07:53
Replies: 191
Views: 146,540
Posted By wonkazoo

Wonk's First Rule of PPRuNe

"As of November, 2018, any thread containing the words "737" or "Max" will, before being terminated by the moderators and before reaching a maximum of 130 posts devolve to an ongoing argument over...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2019, 04:26
Replies: 185
Views: 163,229
Posted By wonkazoo

fdr (as usual) nails it. Forget about who...

fdr (as usual) nails it.

Forget about who you want to blame- that argument has been hashed over 5,000 posts in the original ETA thread.

Instead read 14CFR section 25.255 "Out of trim...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th May 2019, 05:30
Replies: 82
Views: 96,041
Posted By wonkazoo

“We don’t want to rush and do a crappy job of...

“We don’t want to rush and do a crappy job of fixing the right things and we also don’t want to fix the wrong things,” Mr. Sinnett said, later adding, “For flight-critical software, I don’t think you...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th May 2019, 03:11
Replies: 12
Views: 8,238
Posted By wonkazoo

More important than MCAS...

Thank you for starting a thread on this important topic.

Lost in the back and forth of the previous epic threads was the fact that at some point in (probably) all late-model 737s the ability of...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2019, 21:02
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,251,431
Posted By wonkazoo

The simulation is meaningless and it is on an NG...

The simulation is meaningless and it is on an NG sim. The quote is purportedly from a Boeing whistleblower who is working with the FBI. IF from an accurate source it is not meaningless, it is instead...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2019, 17:35
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,251,431
Posted By wonkazoo

Thank you for finding a way to articulate one of...

Thank you for finding a way to articulate one of the primary differences between my views and those of 737 Driver. (and as a consequence between two disparate groups here and probably around the...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2019, 04:28
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,251,431
Posted By wonkazoo

What a house of cards. If you read the...

What a house of cards.

If you read the statement it goes to great lengths to show how they determined over and over again that the AOA disagree alert does not impact flight safety. Which, if...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2019, 03:21
Replies: 5,109
Views: 13,251,431
Posted By wonkazoo

You must be $hiting me... Single set meaning...

You must be $hiting me...

Single set meaning one set for left seat and one set for right?? (Which is still a bit shaky if you think about it) If there are two sets are they in close proximity at...
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