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Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2015, 03:38
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Small Fleet? Indonesian Air Asia has 29 A320, Air...

Small Fleet? Indonesian Air Asia has 29 A320, Air Asia Group has 182 with another 475 on order.

It is currently an Airbus only airline group. Previously it flew 737-300s, up until 2010 it was...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2015, 15:52
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Yes I know that practically all actuators even...

Yes I know that practically all actuators even with FBW are hydraulic, electric motors have characteristics which make them unsuitable for most control surfaces. The signalling is as you say electric...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2015, 13:46
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

As I understand the T7 manuals the Boeing FBW...

As I understand the T7 manuals the Boeing FBW aims to give "the same feel" as an FBH (Fly By Hydraulics) plus making the controls increasingly heavy in normal mode when the input would move the plane...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Feb 2015, 22:07
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

And if two pitot tubes read 0 kts and one reads...

And if two pitot tubes read 0 kts and one reads 350 kts what is the speed?

If you have WOW probably 0 and one binnable pitot, at FL 300+, 2 are probably frozen and the other is probably nearer...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Feb 2015, 20:19
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Moving from 3 pitots to 17 would not help much as...

Moving from 3 pitots to 17 would not help much as they have to be in the same aspect to the air stream as each other to provide comparable results and would likely all freeze up or not. Then you have...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jan 2015, 13:36
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Nigel: probably we do not even know that ...

Nigel: probably we do not even know that

though, again from my couch, it seems unlikely to me that an A320 can fly that self destruct path under AP in Normal Law with full protections.
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jan 2015, 13:26
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

This is rank speculation. What caused the AP to...

This is rank speculation. What caused the AP to disengage and how Normal Law was left has not yet been revealed at all. Gysbreght's idea of Alpha-prot inspired panic followed by wrong decisions...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2015, 11:23
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Is there any evidence of this aircraft also...

Is there any evidence of this aircraft also having been heavily pressure washed immediately prior to takeoff such that both AOA sensors were filled with water below the seals causing them to freeze...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2015, 21:46
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Is there in fact any "statistical analysis"?...

Is there in fact any "statistical analysis"? Which xAA's or airlines require reporting of upset recoveries, do they dump the FDR and CVR for these "near misses" so that the data can be used either in...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jan 2015, 15:11
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

If we are talking about stall warnings, this does...

If we are talking about stall warnings, this does not seem to be the case, not in AB anyway. The 767 and 737 had their problems it seems. ATSB, at least mandates reporting of All stall warnings....
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jan 2015, 04:39
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Mindboggling stuff, as bad as advanced sailing...

Mindboggling stuff, as bad as advanced sailing theory. So presumably non of the boundary conditions for any of these swapover points are known for the A320, and so there is no way of knowing exactly...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 19:43
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Wasn't there a theory going around that the...

Wasn't there a theory going around that the inflated rear exit slide was at first attatched to the severed rear section causing it to float away while the main body sank immediately. The slide...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 10:48
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

It looks like someone has taken a welding torch...

It looks like someone has taken a welding torch to it. One wonders also what exactly the guy with the huge crowbar is hoping to achieve.
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2015, 06:00
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

So you were trained for stall recovery in the...

So you were trained for stall recovery in the sim? Who put your aircraft into the stalls required, and recovered from them, to provide the data for the sim?

Is this not the basis for Airbus...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Jan 2015, 18:13
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

In order to help find out that where the problem...

In order to help find out that where the problem was, and propose solutions, and possibly adopt them (if not too expensive), and suggest that non EU/US CAAs adopt them too ... and prevent the problem...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Jan 2015, 17:02
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Shock and fire resistance no longer mean heavy...

Shock and fire resistance no longer mean heavy since the advent of Kevlar, Carbon, honeycombes and foams. Current commercial combined recorders are only a couple of Kg.

Deployable Combined Data...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 19:16
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

I am sure that the Seattle branch of the agency...

I am sure that the Seattle branch of the agency have them permanently in their sights, so do not worry.
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2015, 06:00
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

How far away from the tail section are those...

How far away from the tail section are those coordinates? Or was it a Horizontal Stab not a Wing?
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jan 2015, 16:44
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Or maybe it has, assuming the passenger quota for...

Or maybe it has, assuming the passenger quota for SUB-SIN was correlated to all the other flights through the area and had something to do with potential safe AC density and separation in an...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Jan 2015, 15:06
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Greenwich is in the centre. That is...

Greenwich is in the centre.

That is Greenwich, London UK, not Greenwich Utah or Greenwich King Edward Island etc.
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Jan 2015, 16:59
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

Indonesia is constitutionally a secular state. It...

Indonesia is constitutionally a secular state. It also seems that these flights actually serve a large proportion of ethnic chinese Christians.
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Dec 2014, 12:06
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,470,467
Posted By DrPhillipa

As I see it the search, and identification of the...

As I see it the search, and identification of the crash remains for QZ8501 has been conducted professionally and well within the normal time frame for any crash in any remote place, land or sea.
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