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Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
23rd Apr 2024, 22:10
Replies: 65
Views: 23,554
Posted By Del Prado

Reddit has some eye witness info and FR24 of...

Reddit has some eye witness info and FR24 of N3054V.
possible engine issue after departure and request to return.
...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
23rd Apr 2024, 21:57
Replies: 65
Views: 23,554
Posted By Del Prado

Alaska Air Fuel operate these two ...

Alaska Air Fuel operate these two
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1125x1632/img_0322_c9b0d4ed11a90fc059ebe9322be9ea78ca681257.jpeg
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
23rd Apr 2024, 21:51
Replies: 65
Views: 23,554
Posted By Del Prado

DC-4 crash Alaska

The Independent

” (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/plane-crash-fairbanks-alaska-rescue-b2533569.html)An aeroplane has crashed into a river near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to...
Forum: ATC Issues
22nd Apr 2024, 08:54
Replies: 17
Views: 2,519
Posted By Del Prado

UK (taken from prospect ...

UK (taken from prospect https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/air-traffic-controller website)

Trainee air traffic controllers earn a salary of £17,000 with NATS. A weekly payment of around...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
8th Apr 2024, 05:23
Replies: 76
Views: 27,465
Posted By Del Prado

Looks like N8668A ...

Looks like N8668A

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n8668a
Forum: ATC Issues
31st Mar 2024, 15:11
Replies: 14
Views: 1,662
Posted By Del Prado

Depends who’s asking 😉 While we refer...

Depends who’s asking 😉



While we refer to a “6 on, 4 off” pattern, day 7 is definitely a sleep day or sometimes a slip spin morning shift.
Forum: ATC Issues
31st Mar 2024, 07:55
Replies: 14
Views: 1,662
Posted By Del Prado

As a rough guide for most U.K. maximum 6...

As a rough guide for most U.K.

maximum 6 consecutive days. Usually 7 or 8 hours, night shift is 9.
maximum 2 hours on (often 1.5 by local agreement) followed by minimum 30 minutes break.
54...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Feb 2024, 22:07
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Is there enough space to resequence a go around?...

Is there enough space to resequence a go around? How does SFO find a gap for them?
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
15th Jan 2024, 12:13
Replies: 6
Views: 3,697
Posted By Del Prado

Drivers, cyclists, parachutists and skiers, etc...

Drivers, cyclists, parachutists and skiers, etc do it too.
Under movement that you are controlling, you tend to travel towards the thing you’re focused on, objects/obstructions tend to catch your...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2024, 10:08
Replies: 3
Views: 4,852
Posted By Del Prado

Let me google that for you...

Let me google that for you (https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ctot)
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
12th Jan 2024, 07:36
Replies: 1,950
Views: 934,419
Posted By Del Prado

Are you sure Dave/have a reference? Question...

Are you sure Dave/have a reference?

Question was about previous flight not the incident flight. I’d be surprised if 26A and B were unoccupied on consecutive legs.
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2024, 10:18
Replies: 36
Views: 7,753
Posted By Del Prado

Must remember that next time I’m on a sailing...

Must remember that next time I’m on a sailing forum.
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
9th Jan 2024, 09:17
Replies: 1,146
Views: 1,050,005
Posted By Del Prado

Quite right, and Heathrow at certain times of the...

Quite right, and Heathrow at certain times of the day.

Banning the use of “number 1” seems crazy; “what number are we to depart?”
”I can’t tell you”. 🙄
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
3rd Jan 2024, 09:19
Replies: 1,146
Views: 1,050,005
Posted By Del Prado

Anyone who still thinks the JAL was in the flare...

Anyone who still thinks the JAL was in the flare then check the video further back. It’s on the ground, level m and in the roll out as it passed that camera a second before the explosion.
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
3rd Jan 2024, 09:18
Replies: 1,146
Views: 1,050,005
Posted By Del Prado

Please reread what East of Koksy said. ATC can...

Please reread what East of Koksy said. ATC can cross couple two or more frequencies so that any transmission on one is received and then (almost) instantaneously retransmitted on the other.
if the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Dec 2023, 06:57
Replies: 132
Views: 72,813
Posted By Del Prado

Declaring a Fuel Mayday does not automatically...

Declaring a Fuel Mayday does not automatically make you number 1.

During mass diversion events there can be double digit numbers of fuel maydays.
It’s nothing to do with ATC not being able to...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Dec 2023, 05:29
Replies: 43
Views: 53,664
Posted By Del Prado

Representing the country of manufacture? It was a...

Representing the country of manufacture? It was a CASA C212.
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2023, 20:49
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Looks like it happened 15 years ago and the...

Looks like it happened 15 years ago and the controller retired a few months later.
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
16th Dec 2023, 16:36
Replies: 20
Views: 6,707
Posted By Del Prado

👍👍👍👍👍

👍👍👍👍👍
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
15th Dec 2023, 20:12
Replies: 20
Views: 6,707
Posted By Del Prado

Great video Caribou78, thanks for finding it. ...

Great video Caribou78, thanks for finding it.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Dec 2023, 08:56
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Of course ATC have already established wake...

Of course ATC have already established wake separation, but once cleared for visual approach the responsibility for wake separation passes to the pilot.

Thats what the book says, that’s what...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Dec 2023, 09:11
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

PukinDog, thanks for your response. You...

PukinDog, thanks for your response.

You reference minimum separation/wake spacing but SFO don’t operate to minimum spacing, they provide gaps for departures from the crossing runways. Look at the...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
5th Dec 2023, 06:52
Replies: 20
Views: 6,707
Posted By Del Prado

PA30 crash lands in Villejuif, Paris

https://www.aerobuzz.fr/aviation-generale/j-p-trimaille-se-crashe-avec-deux-eleves-en-pleine-ville-a-villejuif/


80 year old instructor and pupils 28,29 injured after reporting technical issues...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Dec 2023, 07:18
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

I’ve handled many fuel maydays, double figures in...

I’ve handled many fuel maydays, double figures in just one incident/closure, none of the captains were demoted or sacked.
What sort of strange blame culture do you operate under?
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Nov 2023, 19:09
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Pukindog, some very long posts on here. I’ve just...

Pukindog, some very long posts on here. I’ve just got a couple of questions for you.

One of ATC’s primary roles is to issue accurate onward clearance/approach times or at least an accurate...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Nov 2023, 12:01
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Reminds me of an exchange at LHR many moons ago. ...

Reminds me of an exchange at LHR many moons ago.
”EIN12A, report British Airways 737 ahead in sight.”
EIN - ”We have them in sight.”
BAW - “Er, we’re in cloud.”
EIN - “Yes, but we saw you go in...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Nov 2023, 10:28
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

DLH told them company SOPs prohibited visual...

DLH told them company SOPs prohibited visual separation. SFO didn’t give them an accurate delay of when they could expect an ILS with radar separation. They gave them 10 mins, after nearly 15 they...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Nov 2023, 21:00
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

There have been many visual approaches flown at...

There have been many visual approaches flown at night that haven’t ended well. Off the top of my head there was the KAL (at Guam?) and one in Italy which ended up with the ATC serving time in jail...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Nov 2023, 09:54
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Thats not quite how it works. Does it say on...

Thats not quite how it works.
Does it say on the approach chart “Arriving aircraft must accept visual separation”?
The flight is planned according to the charts. There are charts for an ILS...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Nov 2023, 10:29
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

I still struggle to see why they couldn’t have...

I still struggle to see why they couldn’t have given the Lufthansa a 3 mile separation ‘bubble’ by increasing the gap on one runway by a mile and vectoring the Lufthansa in the middle of that gap for...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Nov 2023, 14:10
Replies: 415
Views: 188,893
Posted By Del Prado

cessnapete, 2 answers to that. 1. how many...

cessnapete, 2 answers to that.

1. how many crew did/does your airline employ that are ‘interchangeable’? I’m guessing an airline could have 100-200 type rated pilots and to employ 5 extra for...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2023, 18:55
Replies: 18
Views: 4,105
Posted By Del Prado

which is what we used to do on runway 23 when no...

which is what we used to do on runway 23 when no one was looking. ;-)
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2023, 14:03
Replies: 18
Views: 4,105
Posted By Del Prado

TBS does a fantastic job and the landing rate is...

TBS does a fantastic job and the landing rate is now much more predictable and resilient, however TBS only applies for vortex wake pairs and not minimum radar spacing so a pair of mediums will still...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2023, 13:39
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

There’s the stats from the FAA, from the CAA,...

There’s the stats from the FAA, from the CAA, from Heathrow Airport Limited (which form part of their Fiduciary responsibilities), from SFO (which are probably part of their stock market filings...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2023, 12:10
Replies: 445
Views: 128,897
Posted By Del Prado

Here’s a list of Heathrow’s stats for 2023 so...

Here’s a list of Heathrow’s stats for 2023 so far. Aircraft movements taken from Heathrow Airport website.

January 2023 34,961
February 2023 32,503
March 2023 36,671
April 2023 37,249
May 2023...
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