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Forum: Tech Log
29th Jul 2011, 20:30
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Cost benefit analysis

Back to the original concept:
With an airplane that is prone to iced up pitot tubes, which then causes loss of airspeed, which causes loss of autopilot and autothrust, and with no high altitude...
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Jul 2011, 20:49
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Bubbers44 "W7 you seem warped" How...

Bubbers44
"W7 you seem warped"

How so?
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Jul 2011, 06:07
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

It's right on target! Totally agree!

It's right on target!

Totally agree!
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Jul 2011, 01:16
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

jcjeant

Hi,

Quote:
Thunder and lightning comments are IMHO of less merit. The primary threat here is convection (up/down draft, shearing resulting in excessive strain to the airframe and disruption to...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Jul 2011, 06:48
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

BOAC wallybird - I would ask you to carefully...

BOAC
wallybird - I would ask you to carefully read both the current and old threads on this topic? Your fixation on 'thunderstorms' is out of place based on what we are told by BEA. There is also no...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Jul 2011, 00:45
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Turbine D "Whether the aircraft was struck...

Turbine D

"Whether the aircraft was struck is the main item of concern, and it appears no such event occurred."

All that refers to is the fact that the plane was probably not struck by...
Forum: Tech Log
21st Jul 2011, 18:30
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Turbine D "Nearly all are not...

Turbine D

"Nearly all are not thunderstorms..."

Unfortunately, some are! And this one proved deadly.
Forum: Tech Log
21st Jul 2011, 18:25
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

NO Thunderstorms???

BOAC

"wallybird - I would ask you to carefully read both the current and old threads on this topic? Your fixation on 'thunderstorms' is out of place based on what we are told by BEA. There is...
Forum: Tech Log
21st Jul 2011, 00:35
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

DO'S AND DON'TS OF THUNDERSTORM FLYING Above...

DO'S AND DON'TS OF THUNDERSTORM FLYING

Above all, remember this: never regard any thunderstorm as “light” even when radar observers report the echoes are of light intensity. Avoiding thunderstorms...
Forum: Tech Log
21st Jul 2011, 00:17
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Real deviation

SaturnV

"wallybird7, you are suggesting that they deliberately flew into a defined thunderstorm? Defined by who? and when?"

What I am saying is that they did not deviate far enough away from...
Forum: Tech Log
19th Jul 2011, 06:23
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

BEFORE LANDING CHECK LIST I'm not fully...

BEFORE LANDING CHECK LIST

I'm not fully aware of the A330 specifics -- but it's not so much having the last word, as it is -- doing something the pilots were not aware of.

And my take is with...
Forum: Tech Log
19th Jul 2011, 05:55
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Thunderstorms - speculation

Lomapaseo

All the other aircraft in the area deviated. Why not this one?

Two posts in a row state as facts about the aircraft flight into a defined thunderstorm without deviation.

I...
Forum: Tech Log
16th Jul 2011, 21:43
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

SaturnV "No one disputes that the crews of the...

SaturnV
"No one disputes that the crews of the LH ahead, and the IB and AF459 following, deviated based on what they saw on their radars. The unanswered question is what did AF447 see on its radar...
Forum: Tech Log
16th Jul 2011, 07:43
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

cloud vs thunderstorms

SaturnV

"There has been a back and forth conversation on this forum about whether they flew into a Cb.

I think perhaps the minimum level of agreement by parties engaged in this conversation is...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Jul 2011, 22:00
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

No Evidence of Thunderstorms???

SATURNV

No evidence of thunderstorms?????

Please read "Air France Flt 447: A Detailed Meteorological Analysis"
By Tim Vasquez

Every scrap of information on this flight shows a line of...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Jul 2011, 21:01
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

The mysterious zoom climb

Why the zoom climb?

It's very odd to me that all of the blogs seem to overlook that all of this happened at the very same time AF447 entered a monstrous thunderstorm. Which contains serious up...
Forum: Tech Log
1st Jun 2011, 06:07
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Zoom climb

"Everybody wonders why the PF pulled back and zoomed to FL380 and entered a deep stall."

I never read it that way. My read is that they were unable to climb because the temperature did not fall. ...
Forum: Tech Log
30th May 2011, 19:25
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

The missing cvr transcript

"Unless I missed it, nobody seems to have mentioned that the original worst-case theory--that the airplane flew into the mother and father of all ITCZ thunderstorms because it was radar-blanked by a...
Forum: Tech Log
30th May 2011, 18:10
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

No evidence of cb's?

"For the umpteenth time, there is no evidence the crew flew through a Cb. In fact, based on the last BEA report, the crew knew very well what was coming,weather-wise as they turned to avoid and...
Forum: Tech Log
30th May 2011, 07:57
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Mainstream media coverage

TO ME IT IS WAY TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON A PROBABLE CAUSE BECAUSE ALL OF THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE BASED ON DATA THAT IS SELECTIVELY RELEASED. TOO MANY ISSUES ARE YET TO BE RESOLVED.

Pilot control...
Forum: Tech Log
29th May 2011, 00:28
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Stall confusion

Let me add to the confusion. No one seems to have an answer as to why the plane zoomed up to 38,000 feet. At that time also the report mentions that the auto-pilot also kicked off. Thus the plane was...
Forum: Tech Log
28th May 2011, 19:36
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Birgen Air flt 301

Just for the record the Captain discovered his airspeed was out in the beginning of the TO roll before V1 but elected to go anyway. It's on the CVR.

The taped static port occurred on the...
Forum: Tech Log
28th May 2011, 19:21
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,670,919
Posted By wallybird7

Nose-dive?

The way I read the report it continously stated that the plane was in a nose up attitude. And the airspeed very slow. And it seems to me that they had no control over the stabilizer/elevator.
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