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Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2010, 16:33
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Some light in the darkness...

I read these two things but mistook the date of the preliminary report for 4 March 2009, the date of the press release. Kiittos! (Well, something like that, anyway.)

"Taken to task," well... If...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2010, 12:49
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

BOAC...

Do you mean the Dutch Safety Board preliminary report of 4 March 2009 or are you referring to another report there? I have read that preliminary report several times if that is the one you are...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2010, 10:16
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

I don't know what information you are working...

I don't know what information you are working from there, S.F.L.Y. but there are some inconsistencies in your narrative that I certainly wouldn't want to try to hash out with you. God forbid I should...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Feb 2010, 16:35
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Isn't it so that the elevator trim simply runs to...

Isn't it so that the elevator trim simply runs to unload the pitch actuator? The autopilot "tells" the actuator to exert some force and then the trim runs to zero the force, so that it's not a highly...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Feb 2010, 06:33
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Yup!

Check out the AF447 thread! Very few facts, just pages and pages of wild speculation, all done in the name of finding an answer to the burning question of what happened, without enough facts to work...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2010, 11:19
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

"If"?

If your aunt had wheels then she would be a tea cart. It is simple, really.

Hey Guys, how about waiting for the report before telling us at length exactly what we need to know about this...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Feb 2010, 06:45
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Why bother guessing?

Given that the full report should be out soon enough, is there much point to piling up guesses to try and figure out what caused this accident?

Most of us probably would never make jury...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2010, 17:50
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

I have had people who probably should know better...

I have had people who probably should know better telling me of the superiority of the autopilot for a long time now. When we moved up to an aircraft with an FMS then we were supposed to become a...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2010, 14:30
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Not enough information...

I think we need to read the final transcript to see what the ATC clearance given to the accident crew was. Okay, the line-up was at 5.5 nautical miles, obviously well above the glideslope if they...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Feb 2010, 06:35
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Time travellers alert!

Why do I detect such a high Vz or -W in some of these posts?

If this accident crew had been given an intercept that put them at their lowest cleared altitude still above the glideslope then that...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2010, 21:23
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Hmm...

I don't think the Dutch controllers would have given a clearance that meant absolutely that the accident crew would have had to intercept the GS from above, otherwise that should have come up before...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2010, 16:08
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

I have noticed a trend, particularly under JAR...

I have noticed a trend, particularly under JAR (or whatever it is called this week), to cram everything possible into the Ops Manual, as if to show that even a chimp, assuming it could read, should...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Feb 2010, 10:02
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Fair enough but...

If you write using standard terminology then nobody has to "deduce" anything! That makes the exchange of information and views much easier and more accurate.

I do not have a strong background in...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Feb 2010, 06:33
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Why a new acronym?

I think you might want to drop this Vz term and revert to ROC (Rate of Climb) and ROD (Rate of Descent), S.F.L.Y. That way all of us can be clear about whatever it is you want to tell us. When you...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jan 2010, 19:58
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

It is your prerogative...

I have this wonderful little book, the "Airman's Information Manual," with a list of all the standard abbreviations. It was published by an ICAO-affiliated organisation you may well have heard of,...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jan 2010, 18:47
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

No, it's "chuks."

Small "c" there.

Well, I have been in aviation for a while now and thought I knew most of the speed designations but this "Vz" threw me. Seriously, while we do have X, Y and Z axes, and those I...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jan 2010, 17:53
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

It's chuks, actually...

But never mind that now.

What sort of AME do you use, anyway? None of mine ever insisted on a prostate exam and I can see how that might just put someone off a career in aviation. Well either that...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Jan 2010, 13:22
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Some questions for S.F.L.Y.:

1. Do you hold any sort of pilot's licence/license and if so what is your level of experience? For instance, have you flown large aircraft into Schiphol?

2. What do you mean by the term "Vz" which...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Jan 2010, 11:23
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

He's telling us something about a power-off...

He's telling us something about a power-off emergency landing, when you use up the stored energy (speed and altitude) of a large aircraft to get as far along as you can. That is not the way you do a...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2010, 15:20
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

The best one ever!

I was doing my post-flight paperwork when I noticed a young man stood there on the ramp peering intently at me through the little document hatch, so that I asked him if I could help him with...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2010, 09:09
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Well, you try this and see how well you do!

You can nitpick all you like with "coulda-shoulda-woulda" in either case and come away telling anyone who will listen to you how you would have done this so much better but many of us will just...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2010, 06:35
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Point taken...

I think there are more amateurs (in the best sense of that word, those who love flying without necessarily being professionals) here than you might assume, just given by the tenor of the posts, so...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jan 2010, 09:48
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Sorry about what you read as sarcasm there, PJ2....

Sorry about what you read as sarcasm there, PJ2. It is just that, as you are no doubt aware, a student pilot should be taught about a lot more than just keeping the airspeed above a certain critical...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jan 2010, 19:16
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

No plausible reason?

Well, give it a few days and we can learn the implausible reason then.

"Airspeed is Everything," you say? So, your students tool around staring at the ASI? No, of course not so that I think you...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jan 2010, 13:33
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Sorry if I misunderstood the chain of events,...

Sorry if I misunderstood the chain of events, when I assumed a stabilised approach there with the radalt starting things off by giving a low altitude that triggered the power reduction.

Even so,...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Jan 2010, 11:25
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

Blame, in a crash report?

These crash reports try to establish probable causes but they explicitly avoid putting blame on this or that.

From what I have read we might see something along the lines of one probable cause...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2009, 14:52
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

It is Chuks, actually...

Only one "c" because it is short for something African and much longer. Never mind that now, though!

An alert reader asks "Why am I here?" Good question, well put. Check back just a few posts and...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2009, 09:55
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

I don't agree...

Whenever I look at these threads it always reminds me of that stupid, funny Hollywood movie about the police, "Police Story," I think the title is, the one with Leslie Nielsen and O.J. Simpson when...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2009, 19:29
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,450,511
Posted By chuks

German AOL...

AOL puts up little snippets of news on the home page (I think it is called) you get when you log on to select e-mail.

There is an article running now about this crash, really addressing the very...
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