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Forum: Rumours & News
11th Feb 2015, 22:14
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Expectations vs reactions

RetF4 thanks for your several well thought out posts. But your conclusion that early stall avoidance may require uncomfortable and never before experienced sensations (dirt, papers, coffee, and...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Feb 2015, 01:45
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

The unstallable stall

Vilters, I don't mean to challenge you, rather to note there has been some lengthy previous conversation--correction--broadsides right here regarding whether a deep stall of long duration was even...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Feb 2015, 16:18
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

RE IanW's stack of manuals: I attended a local...

RE IanW's stack of manuals: I attended a local emergency planning meeting, with fire department, and city, county, and state officialdom. The city manual was 50 pages long. The mayor and I were the...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Feb 2015, 15:47
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Pilot confidence

Bubbers at 3156: "I think he means no pilot should depend on an autopilot so much that if it fails he cannot safely continue operating the aircraft manually from where the autopilot failed. MAA for...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2015, 20:38
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Clarification

Thanks for the clarification UF, but I think I understood what you meant. It may well have been me who was unclear. I have less concern about older pilots who came up through the ranks flying more...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2015, 18:22
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Pushing over

Uncle Fred: Even having been exposed to some of this training in the sim, I did not really take to heart what it would be like to have to push over that much at 350 and how I would have to be...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2015, 19:30
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

A320 fuel trim

A320 does not have an aft fuel trim tank. However to amend my earlier post, A320 CG does move with fuel consumption. So my question for Those Who Know remains somewhat the same: Would cg changes due...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2015, 16:07
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

RE Various posts

In the early 80's I believe NASA did some testing of deep stall characteristics using a single place T tail Schweitzer 1-36 which was modified to permit the horizontal stab to angle nose down to...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 19:01
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

SOP monkey

SOP monkey: "I do stand to be corrected, as the day I stop learning, for me is the day to give up.."

I wish there was more evidence of this attitude in posts, and second the request for more...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2015, 03:31
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Argument bruhaha

Triskele: 'At 6:17 a.m. on Dec. 28, three minutes after air traffic control unsuccessfully tried to make contact and asked nearby aircraft to try to locate QZ8501, the A320 turned to the left and it...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2015, 17:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Trim

Nigel@2677: "An Airbus is slightly different.............it is not "trimming" as such, but aligning THS and Elevator to retain full elevator control."

But "full Elevator control" at an AOA (and...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jan 2015, 18:27
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Yes or no, cognitive

As more than one poster has pointed out, the continued emphatic Yes-they-do No-they-don't FMC arguments between people trained on and flying A320's IS having an effect on those not privy to front...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jan 2015, 02:01
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Recovery fail

Thanks for the video link Plumb Bob and FlyerBabe. There's not much there but its all we have. Slats appear retracted but they are there. I'm beginning to wonder what the point is in hauling the...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 22:50
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Wing images

I too think the video grab of the attempted hoist shows the underside of the wings. The pic I posted earlier appears to me to show the upper wing surfaces nearly intact, really quite amazing, while...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 20:42
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Wings pic

Different pic of wings and fuselage top I've not seen before:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q67265sv48qc4zt/wings%20as%20in%202.png?dl=0
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 18:25
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Video link

>@md80fanatic there is a YouTube video shown from the perspective of on the boat.

Video link please. I'm not finding it. I can't imagine there was any real confidence that given previous video of...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jan 2015, 17:37
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Climb authorization

RF4 at 2502: it has been stated many times that his increase in FlL request was denied. It's highly unlikely that he would initiate a unauthorized climb to move up to optimum .

And Lost in S...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Jan 2015, 02:37
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Radar spiral/circle

Is there any possibility of narrowing by calculation the number of possible attitude scenarios regarding only the last spiral or circle on the radar track? Time involved is somewhat uncertain, but an...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 19:05
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Why oh why

Saigon I completely understand the reasons why climbing near a cb would not be wise. The uniform opinions by posters here do nothing but confirm that. But we can't exclude that possibility as the...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 16:42
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Get there itis

Get-there-itis mostly results from the airline schedule which many people depend on. Leaving "sometime today when the weather is good" means passengers will flock to other carriers. A lot can happen,...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 16:34
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Threading weather

There's a lot of focus on the excessive climb and descent rates, and a lot of previous conjecture about why the pilots would have made the wrong decision. Until we are certain otherwise, I prefer to...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Jan 2015, 00:08
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Studies

IanW: Indeed there are...... Yerkes and Dodson developed ...the inverted U.

My point is also asking whether a person overseeing an automated system has "farther to go" to catch up specifically in...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2015, 23:23
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Attention

ekw...Are there not studies showing it is also more difficult to maintain the same degree of vigilance and attentiveness when overseeing an automated system compared to constant manual control,...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2015, 20:19
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Time

HT to Nigel's few well chosen words that allow me to cut my post by 90%: “...the multitude of warnings is unlikely to immediately improve SA”

A decision chain leading to an accident can be long...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2015, 17:37
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Radome

The visible portion of the radome pic
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/553569-air-asia-indonesia-lost-contact-surabaya-singapore-112.html#post8832757
shows a similarity to the earlier pic of...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 23:10
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Replies to posts

RE various posts:
FDR CVR recovery will tell some things about what the aircraft did, and what the pilots did, but not why the pilots did it, which is what prevention really needs to know. What...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 21:05
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Photo citations

Would those posting photos please cite the source address? Thank you RetF4.

Tail location where discovered is no strong indication of impact location. Partial bouyancy, highest just after impact,...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 17:38
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Impact comparison to AF447

Garage Years: Surely the impact that occurred with AF447 would be a good model for an intact aircraft hitting the ocean at relative high vertical speed?

The comparative issues of 8501 forward and...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 16:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

3km, explosive

Tail section carried 3km is believable only if the tail was down current from the FDR. When we see current direction overlaid on a map of FDR and tail section locations it will be clear enough. Or...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 14:36
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Debris recovery, media, 'explosion', 3km

peekay: "No professional investigator or materials engineer would be confused by scrapes or scratches from the recovery effort."

I don't know if I would go that far, but the recovery crew needs to...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jan 2015, 20:35
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

RE Numerous posts

Safety vs cost and who decides: Black boxes have nothing to do with safety other than supplying new knowledge to prevent a similar future event. Ingenuity as per IanW, not bales of money, should be...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2015, 22:04
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Bulkhead

RE Phoenix pic...thanks for the higher res. Previous searcher comments were of impact as left wing low. But pic shows greatest impact force to left of center (looking aft) on the bulkhead meaning...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2015, 17:54
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Registration characters

No one has mentioned it yet, but it appears that the various in situ photos included both left and right side registration numbers. Comparison of all in situ regis# photos to date suggest there are...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2015, 16:32
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Shape of tail debris

Fewer comments since tail raising on shape of debris than on search methods and batteries. More than anything the tail section looks like a paper bag popped open except for the fuselage face that...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Jan 2015, 05:49
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,400
Posted By Leightman 957

Originally Post by onetrack ...

Originally Post by onetrack http://www.pprune.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif...
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