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Forum: Rumours & News
4th Dec 2019, 02:50
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Hoover did things when he was asleep...

Salute!

Hoover did things when he was asleep that none of us could hope to do wide awake, sober and having tried it a hundred times.

At a show in Ogden back early 80's his Pony broke, so he...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 21:51
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Thanks, PEI. I was surprised 20...

Salute!

Thanks, PEI.

I was surprised 20 or 30 years ago to find out that many of the heavies moved the stab for trim versus the elevator. Found out after a student of mine pranged at Little...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 21:36
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Well, Let it, if all the pilots knew...

Salute!

Well, Let it, if all the pilots knew about a new system and how it worked and under what conditions, then we prolly would not have lost over 300 souls. We prolly would not have to have sim...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 19:52
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Agreed, Old.... lottsa trust gaining...

Salute!

Agreed, Old.... lottsa trust gaining on heah, ya think?

The comment about pitch up potential has merit, and I remain to be convinced that MCAS was simply a kludge to keep control force...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 18:09
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! India's actions seem rather harsh...

Salute!

India's actions seem rather harsh and maybe even unnecessary.
In all fairness, Boeing's AD after the Lion crash recommending turning off the trim works if you do it at the onset of the...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Dec 2019, 16:06
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Interesting, Safety I hope they...

Salute!

Interesting, Safety
I hope they have line pilots at the gala event. don't you? Maybe even a hop in the bird to show what MCAS activation feels like, as well as high AoA without MCAS.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Dec 2019, 16:27
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Way off topic now, are we? ...

Way off topic now, are we?
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Salute!
Well, having done hundreds of rolls and "things you have not dreamed of", to borrow a line from High...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Nov 2019, 19:11
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Adding to previous post.... 1) About...

Salute!
Adding to previous post....
1) About every plane I flew caused ther nose to go down when I lowered the flaps, even the T-33 which had split flaps and not the fancy ones I had in other jets....
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Nov 2019, 16:42
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! You're thinking more as I have been...

Salute!

You're thinking more as I have been for most of this year, Gordon, et al

Must be more than a simple "stick lightening", possibly actual pitch coefficient problems whereby even a...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2019, 22:43
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! From Tak.... Gotta tellya...

Salute!

From Tak....


Gotta tellya that I would hunt down whoever implemented an undocumented/advertised flight control modification to the plane I flew for 20 years or so, and enjoyed. The...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Nov 2019, 15:39
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! You may have figured it out,...

Salute!

You may have figured it out, PilotMike.

The MCAS apparently did not simply stop, then resume for the full trim amount. Seems it was trying to activate for the full amount or start over...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Nov 2019, 14:15
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! @ Silver and Old...... Back when the...

Salute!
@ Silver and Old......
Back when the Earth was still cooling our "archaic" fully electronic FBW system in the Viper had 4 computers and 4 piezzo doofers to sense our pitch and roll...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Nov 2019, 19:04
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Forgive me, but I am having a hard...

Salute!

Forgive me, but I am having a hard time with requiring hours of "training" for pilots to fly the MAX with the new MCAS, or even the old MCAS.

Seems to this old fart that letting all of...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Nov 2019, 21:05
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Good points Diesel The...

Salute!

Good points Diesel

The problem was not failure of MCAS to activate, but activation when not required for the control force requirement. To be honest, 99% of the pilots would not...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Nov 2019, 17:01
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! How come we can not talk ancient...

Salute!

How come we can not talk ancient processors over on Tech Log? Keep the management and political stuff here?

Good grief! The sfwe and object code for the MCAS function could be...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Nov 2019, 21:11
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Some interesting thots Gordon and...

Salute!

Some interesting thots Gordon and Grounded.

Mods cut off the Tech Log, But I'll post here and save the draft if this thread continues to be political and managment stuff and no serious...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Oct 2019, 15:42
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Great points, on the whole, Tom. ...

Salute!

Great points, on the whole, Tom. Especially about instinctive use of that trim button/switch that seems to be missing from some of the newbie pilot bag of tricks.
I was taught from day...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Oct 2019, 20:41
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Thanks, Peter..... Gotta review...

Salute!

Thanks, Peter.....
Gotta review all the control law names, as I am more familiar with pitch gee/rate, roll rate and such.
Also have to reopen the Tech Logs for "technical" stuff.
One...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Oct 2019, 19:31
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute Snyg! We really need to reopen the...

Salute Snyg!

We really need to reopen the Tech Log for "technical" discussion, ya think?

Let the Mod's delete the political crapola and such, but if we wish to prevent future crashes we need to...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Oct 2019, 18:04
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! TNX for the update, Old... I am...

Salute!

TNX for the update, Old...
I am more of a pilot and engineer than corporate type. So I wonder why Boeing doesn't bite the bullet and solve the basic aero problem and get rid of MCAS....
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Oct 2019, 22:45
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! @ Edmund.... et al No need to...

Salute!
@ Edmund.... et al


No need to go fishing. Just ask if there was ever a test of MCAS operation per the spec, and then a test when it was not supposed to activate ( high and low...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Oct 2019, 20:27
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Sorry, tiddles. Have to take issue...

Salute!

Sorry, tiddles. Have to take issue with the single AoA aspect of the crashes, although MCAS use of a single sensor for a critical control surface was flat out unacceptable. Ditto for ...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Oct 2019, 18:33
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Well, Tom, Hans and Byros...... The...

Salute!

Well, Tom, Hans and Byros...... The mods shut off the Tech Log threads very early for some reason, and they had very good tech data, discussions and diagrams and such. Not a lotta...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Oct 2019, 00:28
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! The Joint report and Grebe's suggestion...

Salute!
The Joint report and Grebe's suggestion for a "fix" and Sully's assertion concerning crew recovery with a rogue MCAS brings me back to some of my original thots.
- if a sim can duplicate...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Oct 2019, 22:01
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute, Tak !! On my LEF failure...

Salute, Tak !!


On my LEF failure depicted in my bio link on my profile here. is what the maintenance crew forgot to check. The LEF tubing connevted to a hydraulic motor via a "spline" type...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Oct 2019, 18:26
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! No disagreement, Grebe Some of us...

Salute!

No disagreement, Grebe
Some of us are capable of interpreting the aero plots and relating the data to our personal experience in the particular jet.
I like your procedure. I just want to...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Oct 2019, 17:33
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Thank you Member... Well, the...

Salute!
Thank you Member...
Well, the chickens are finally coming home to roost.
Mny of us wondered about the basic aero of the new 737 when we found out that Boeing had to add a doofer to...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Oct 2019, 14:52
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! As several have opined very early,...

Salute!

As several have opined very early, even a partilal FBW implementation would have solved the Max "control force versus AoA" problem. It would have been expensive to go full authority as...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Sep 2019, 03:41
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! TNX, fdr and turbine and ski..,et...

Salute!

TNX, fdr and turbine and ski..,et al ...... Feel free to tell us what you really feel and opine and relate from actual stick time.Heh heh.

I must admit that having a new flight...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Sep 2019, 19:34
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! A few points before mods move or...

Salute!

A few points before mods move or cut us off and we return to politics and regulations and such versus the way things flly and changes to our plane that we don't know about.

- I have...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Sep 2019, 15:09
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Thnx, infrequent. When you start...

Salute!

Thnx, infrequent. When you start overriding the "override" function, then you are tickling the dragon, huh?

Gums sends...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Sep 2019, 22:06
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Right, Rather. And so is Peter. ...

Salute!

Right, Rather. And so is Peter.
The troop sounds like he is paid by Boeing, and coveniently overlooks or misrepresents how MCAS works and the difficulty recognizing and correcting for a...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Sep 2019, 03:14
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! TNX, fdr, some good thots you...

Salute!

TNX, fdr, some good thots you present here.

And make no mistake, I used Otto a lot in my thousands of hours in single seaters. I used altitude hold, heading hold, heading select and...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jul 2019, 02:49
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! I am not sure which procedure I...

Salute!

I am not sure which procedure I should follow, especially if I cannot assess the nose down pitch moment as being "runaway trim".
My stick shaker is vibrating in all its full glory and I...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Jul 2019, 01:47
Replies: 4,656
Views: 4,785,321
Posted By gums

Salute! Looking more and more like an...

Salute!

Looking more and more like an aerodynamic fix will be required, not to mention the speed versus trim wheel authority issue, ya think?

Gums sends...
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