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Forum: Rumours & News
5th Feb 2015, 12:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

No. When you apply full forward stick you get...

No. When you apply full forward stick you get full elevator travel, at least until the lower G limit of -1 is reached. If you manually move the trim wheel, automatic stabiliser trimming stops for a...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 09:24
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Silversrata....just...no.

Silversrata....just...no.
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 06:51
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Autoflight... Not an A320 pilot, but allow...

Autoflight...

Not an A320 pilot, but allow me to observe that different organisations have different informal standards of behaviour. And that, from time to time, senior people can be observed...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 00:28
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Troubleshooting...

...of failed components shouldn't blindly progress past the second changed computer. Not in a fleet that has normal reliability figures for that component. I mean, what are the chances of two bad...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jan 2015, 21:12
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

From what is being leaked it seems that the...

From what is being leaked it seems that the circuit breaker pulling caused the subsequent loss of control. But why would he resort to such an unorthodox action if he did not believe that they were...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 17:48
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Clearances not acknowledged...

...can be the case when a third party overtransmits on the frequency or breaks in, preventing a timely response. Which happens quite a lot in that area due to frequency congestion and poor radio...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 08:53
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

I think it unlikely that it would have been...

I think it unlikely that it would have been totally an updraft. But if it was the autopilot would maintain altitude until the speed increase approached Vmo/Mmo, then the automatic overspeed...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Jan 2015, 06:04
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Phoeniks...B-47 eh? Respect. :ok: ...

Phoeniks...B-47 eh? Respect. :ok:

Glendale...add me to the list of non-believers in the max altitude cruise near CBs or the upper shear zone of a jetstream. Or most places, really.
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 13:23
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Rgbrock1: A pressure drop of that magnitude...

Rgbrock1:

A pressure drop of that magnitude would have to be bounded by a funnel cloud. Tornadoes are atypical in the tropics, and one open all the way through the tropopause rarer still.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 05:49
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

That would be a first, not being released to the...

That would be a first, not being released to the public. Maybe he means that there will not be a dumbed down report for the public, or he means that there will only be a minimal pro forma summary for...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2015, 00:25
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

A recent sim exercise had an alarm repeat every...

A recent sim exercise had an alarm repeat every couple of minutes during a busy procedure which rightly required the crews to formally acknowledge and evaluate the damned alarm each time it...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jan 2015, 13:21
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Heavy Metallist: bravo. There are problems...

Heavy Metallist: bravo.

There are problems with protections and envelope constraints: they rely on fallible sensors for their information. So, back to "Data Processing 101" : Garbage In= Garbage...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jan 2015, 00:15
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

I don't know Glendale...how much general aviation...

I don't know Glendale...how much general aviation goes on compared to the airlines? Worldwide, I mean.

When I first hired on to a turboprop regional the cover charge was 3,000 hrs twin. My 24...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Jan 2015, 09:12
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

A real time empennage failure from the archives...

For those of you born too late, Google "MD 80 test flight crash" to find a youtube video of a intentional hard landing. The tail separates, and that's at about 1200 fpm descent from memory. Imagine...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 21:26
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Barking Mad wrote "Before we even get to...

Barking Mad wrote

"Before we even get to attempting to practise stalling, in sims of dubious fidelity, how many airline crew posters on this forum have NEVER hand-flown their 'frame, at max mass...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 01:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

On the CVR "debate": The flight deck is a closed...

On the CVR "debate": The flight deck is a closed office. In normal circumstances what is said there should stay there. There is no way a senior executive would be willing to endure the same level of...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Jan 2015, 00:40
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Capt Bloggs is right, although in an Airbus "hand...

Capt Bloggs is right, although in an Airbus "hand flying" is more akin to "control wheel steering" in most Boeings. ie, its not really manual flying, and there is no realistic control force feedback....
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Jan 2015, 08:50
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

That paint scrape looks more like a kink line...

That paint scrape looks more like a kink line where the paint popped off. You see that in buckled skin after impact deformation.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Jan 2015, 02:03
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

A note on slide raft inflation

The escape slides do not have an inflation bottle big enough to fully inflate the slide. Instead, the bottles, when triggered by opening the door in auto, blow through a venturi which sucks the...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Dec 2014, 03:08
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Australopithecus

Epirbs, ELTs etc...

While I understand the impulse to come up with a solution to the lost airliner problem, adding more portable ELTs isn't it. The more portable ELTs in the field, the more false alerts.

I believe...
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