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FBS posted:when the Me 163 just isn't insane enough I read that too and I'm kinda curious what would do that, the hydrazine or the high-purity peroxide
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One of my ground instructors regaled us with a tale of how some of his coworkers at Mesa got fired. It was a full flight on an EMB120, and someone was trying to jump seat home. However the jump seat was already taken by someone more senior, so they weren’t getting on the flight. But the guy that got bumped was good friends with the captain of that flight and they hatched a hairbrained idea to placard the lav inop and sneaking him on the flight. They even got the FO and FA to agree to it. Somehow he ended up being counted on the manifest and the gate agents at the departing airport couldn’t figure out how there was one more person on the flight than possible. So they called the company to figure out what was going on and apparently they were greeted by the FAA and chief pilot when they arrived. Also a friend of mine that used to fly 135 cargo would tell me stories of dudes going through mins on an ILS on the reg to get to the hotel before they stopped serving breakfast.
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e.pilot posted:One of my ground instructors regaled us with a tale of how some of his coworkers at Mesa got fired. An entire flight stuck in the lav. 
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MrYenko posted:An entire flight stuck in the lav. How long could an EMB-120 route be?
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MrYenko posted:An entire flight stuck in the lav. The title of that short story for the collected works is: "When Ya Gotta Go, Ya Gotta Go."
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Kerosene19 posted:I'd like to think that it was because the LaQuinta inn stopped serving continental breakfasts at 1100. Civilians would be horrified at how much incentives like this factor into supplemental ops. Gotta stretch that $1.25/hour per diem as far as possible. I used to hear a lot of stories of lav and standup jumpseats at the old USAir and Eastern. I was jumpseating CLT-PHL one time on a USAir 727 which was filling up with non revs and company jumpseaters. The Captain told me to wedge myself between the FE's panel and the aft cockpit bulkhead, but one of the company jumpseaters found a FA jumpseat open in the back, so I got a jumpseat after the cabin door closed. One time I was traveling with my wife from MDW down to Florida and the ATA flight we had passes on was filling up just before departure (this was before I flew there). The Captain in this case told my wife (non pilot) just to hide in the cockpit until they closed the cockpit door, then she could take the forward jumpseat (727). I was horrified at the risk the nice Captain was taking to get us to my Mother In Law's house (I was the ALPA Jumpseat Chair at the airline I was flying for at the time), but once again a nice company deadheader took a FA jumseat at departure time and my wife got a seat in back. She was pissed as hell that she just missed getting a jumpseat ride in a 727. I remember nearly making GBS threads myself as we took off from 31C at MDW in a max gross 727 and cleared the barbed wire on the perimeter fence by about 20ft.
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Ah, back in the old days... when men were men, sex was safe, and flying was dangerous!
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hobbesmaster posted:How long could an EMB-120 route be? I don't know passenger ops wise, but I used to routinely fly with a guy that for a period handled Brasilia deliveries for a certain mega-regional. He and another guy would fly down to Sao Jose dos Campos, pick up an airplane, then proceed with a routing of something like direct Belem, refuel and do customs paperwork, north overwater to St. Martin, refuel and gamble or spend a day at the beach, land somewhere in southern Florida for customs, then try to fly a final leg to Palm Springs, Fresno or Salt Lake City with a fuel stop somewhere in New Mexico or Texas. He did tell me there were a couple times with favorable winds they could get all the way from Florida without stopping for fuel.  And yes, there were some interesting stories that happened in this process. 
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Butt Reactor posted:He did tell me there were a couple times with favorable winds they could get all the way from Florida without stopping for fuel. "Can you hold at the outer marker for incoming traffic?" "I don't know, do you know how well one of these glides when it runs out of fuel?"
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"Can you hold at the outer marker for incoming traffic?" Yeah, if I can hold at 6000ft... or FL180 I can hold a lot longer.
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Sweet. Is that a civilianized B-25?
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joat mon posted:Sweet. Is that a civilianized B-25? Airliner conversion A-26, I think.  https://i.imgur.com/UV1ou5x.jpg for nose-art titties.I recognized the tip tank, and there aren't that many of them on GIS. 
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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joat mon posted:Sweet. Is that a civilianized B-25? I think it is actually one of the very small number of curiously named "On Mark Marksmen" which was a hot rod civilian conversion of an A-26. edit - I stand corrected, it is an "On Mark Marketeer". duh bewbies fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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I was wondering about this one... pure visible light at some insane ISO setting or is there some near-IR trickery going on? Never seen this before or since.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So after many years, I find myself visiting my parents, who live in Gander, NL. My dad has worked most of his career around the airport there, or in Gander Control center, the ATC hub that handles lots of traffic over the Atlantic. My dad took me out to supper on my birthday, and he told me an interesting story of Soviet aviation...
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Judging by the blown out position light I’m going to go with long exposure.
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e.pilot posted:Judging by the blown out position light I’m going to go with long exposure. Yeah, IR on a DSLR sensor comes out bright purple, in my experience. I've taken photos of TV-remote-control LEDs and electric stove burners just to see what happens. It's weird as poo poo, the stove burner was just starting to glow orange in visible light, the camera saw it as lavender. Edit: Maybe it's just that you've never been behind a jet in the dark. Several places in this video, you can see the orange glow in the engines as they pass full dry thrust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvRWHWF1uQ Blink and you'll miss it, though, they're going straight from idle to full afterburner to idle, but it's there. Especially the first and third landings, dudes don't even click it into reheat, just apparently go to mil power, and it looks just like the airliner photo. Edit again: Pretty sure most of that is just the actual red-hot turbine disk, and you get a little lick of flame from the long exposure. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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I like the little shower of sparks as the hook scrapes the deck. I never really considered that that would be a normal thing that happens, but it makes sense.
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I like the sharktooth nose art on that last hornet. Thought they stopped doing that a while ago.
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Most naval squadrons have one jet painted up to look good (or at least better).
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Big sharktooth and a good nose art link
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Mr. Despair posted:I like the sharktooth nose art on that last hornet. Thought they stopped doing that a while ago. Godholio posted:Most naval squadrons have one jet painted up to look good (or at least better).
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joat mon posted:Sweet. Is that a civilianized B-25? A lot of A-26s and B-25s were converted into executive aircraft after the war, which is why a fair number of them are still flying today.
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Is there a crosswind speed where they just automatically go "Nope, airport's closed, everyone divert"?
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Enourmo posted:Is there a crosswind speed where they just automatically go "Nope, airport's closed, everyone divert"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGUTsJm1Hw A Heavy doing a bolter is a religious experience. You'd be surprised how fast those things can accelerate and nope the gently caress out. What's up with the Arkia jet at 4:40? Forgot to shut off the chemtrail dispensers? Surely they're not dumping fuel on short final. Naval Aviators ain't poo poo. Sure, they have to hit a postage stamp in the dark, but the ship is always steaming at 30+ knots into the wind so with a stiff breeze the jets just kinda hover down onto the wires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5z3DMC3RA Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Why the gently caress did I just spend 15 minutes watching airplanes land weird? I have to say, commercial airplanes really do look really good when landing. It doesn't feel very fun to be inside one when it does, though. Air travel should be more expensive and pilots paid more, because I'm sure those kinds of landings take a lot of practice. Capitalism ruins everything.
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yes i sure hate to be able to travel the world at a relatively low cost in safety and reasonable comfort
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I think a lot of us in this thread have probably had the daydream of "nobody left to land the plane but me!" And wondered how we'd do. But let's be honest (actually we have some ATC guys here so maybe they can tell us) it'd probably be 20 minutes to find the radio button, and when in contact with ground just getting instructions for speed/heading/altitude on the Flight Director Panel towards a suitable airport, then instructions for the FMC for the plane to land itself
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:yes i sure hate to be able to travel the world at a relatively low cost in safety and reasonable comfort what comfort
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Forums Terrorist posted:what comfort Climate control, not getting rained on unless you're in a CRJ, enough light to read a book, don't have to row, that kind of thing.
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Delivery McGee posted:What's up with the Arkia jet at 4:40? Forgot to shut off the chemtrail dispensers? Surely they're not dumping fuel on short final. It's just vortices from the outboard edge of the flap, normal with high relative humidity. MOVE ALONG.
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Full tank of petrol costs about £70-100 depending on if I fill up at the local supermarket or on a motorway along the journey. A transcontinental 15 hour flight costs £450-600 depending on time of year I sit down, get free movies and food twice. That quality food at a roadside greasy spoon would be about £5. But on the plane beer (or vodka oranges or gin and tonics) and pretzels are unlimited. The films are usually on the IFE before they're on DVD, with cinema showings at about £10 a ticket. The seat's about the same size as a cinema seat but it also reclines, and I can swap films at will if I don't like what I'm watching, despite a smaller screen. So call it £10 for the food, £30 for the films, £20 for drinks at the low end. That's (at best case) £390 and I end up somewhere hot and sunny and cheaper to have a good time than the UK.vs £270 and ending up in Scunthorpe, and having to endure it arriving sober. This does not count the unlimited beer (and pop and coffee and low-quality-but-hot food) I get if I pay £15 into a lounge. Air travel is an absolute steal at the moment and you're a fool if you aren't taking advantage of it as far as possible.
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simplefish posted:Full tank of petrol costs about £70-100 depending on if I fill up at the local supermarket or on a motorway along the journey. Stockholmsyndrome.txt
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Airline pilots absolutely should be paid more, and capitalism does ruin everything, but raising ticket prices isn't the answer. Supposedly the median wage for commercial pilots is ~$77k. The CEO of United made $18.7 million in total compensation last year. United has ~12700 pilots. Half the CEO's salary and you could give every pilot $700+ extra dollars a year. Do that with all the upper executives making more than a million bucks and you could probably get closer to giving an extra $2000 a year to every pilot. That's not huge for people already making $77k, but it's no drop in the bucket either. Eat the rich, is what I'm saying.
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Delivery McGee posted:A Heavy doing a bolter is a religious experience. You'd be surprised how fast those things can accelerate and nope the gently caress out. Just physics: the plane's a lot lighter than it started due to fuel burn, but it's already moving, and it's still got the engines it needed to get all that fuel up and moving in the first place.
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Southwest's 737-700s are so goddamned adorable. A318s and 319s just look like short buses with wings. I think the pointy nose makes all the difference. Or maybe the 737 is iconic while the A31x line is just "functional." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Actually the pay of commercial pilots and airline CEOs should be the market clearing price, which is what it presently is.
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simplefish posted:Full tank of petrol costs about £70-100 depending on if I fill up at the local supermarket or on a motorway along the journey. Yeah, none of this applies in the US. Including food, fuel, and hotels, it's cheaper to drive halfway across this country. If you need to rent a vehicle at your destination for more than a couple of days, it's almost always cheaper to drive.
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