Uae380 Problem
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The higher fuel consumption reduces the dumping time. (I have no idea about the A380 dumping rates and fuel consumption. Had it been a 744 I could have quoted you the figures)
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Thanks Air Clues but who said anything about Dubai?
It orbited for half-an-hour before setting course for LHR, but I'd be surprised if it spent that time raining Jet A-1 down on the good citizens of Wakefield ...
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From my distant memory, the removal of the down-lock pins must be entered in the AML. How do the engineers do this if they are in for push-back (or have the rules changed?)? I don't know about the 380 but the 744 down-lock pins are quite high up in the nose-wheel bay.
This pin should not be confused with the Hydraulic Shutoff Pin which is inserted during push-back to disable the nose-wheel steering and is shown to the pilots by the push-back crew.
This pin should not be confused with the Hydraulic Shutoff Pin which is inserted during push-back to disable the nose-wheel steering and is shown to the pilots by the push-back crew.
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More here from a couple of usual sources:
Incident: Emirates A388 at Manchester on Mar 12th 2017, could not retract landing gear
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f.../ek18/#cb719a6
Incident: Emirates A388 at Manchester on Mar 12th 2017, could not retract landing gear
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f.../ek18/#cb719a6
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FWIW (probably not a lot) it still is with us (744/777) - downlock pins must be removed, seen by the flight crew and signed as removed in the AML prior to a pushback prior to flight. Obviously (?) the gear steering lock out pin gets removed prior to taxi.....
Now...are we any closer to finding out what happened with the 380?
From my distant memory, the removal of the down-lock pins must be entered in the AML.
Now...are we any closer to finding out what happened with the 380?