A6SEA - FlightAware

Bill Butler

会員期間	10 年前
最終オンライン日時	大体一時間前
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言語	English (USA)

Lost autopilot controls--Pilots struggle

An analogy, of sorts. When I'm teaching my grandkids the finer art of driving a car, I will not let them use cruise control. Ever. After I'm satisfied and they have their "ticket", they can/will do what they want. But when I let them go, I'm confident that they could "fly" without the automatics. (Besides, the Cessna I learned on didn't have auto pilot. Or auto anything). :)
(Written on 2020年09月12日)(Permalink)

Airbus redesigns A350 cockpit center console

Torsten Hoff: there are sippy cups out there. They're called YETI :)
(Written on 2020年09月12日)(Permalink)

Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Critical Software Updates

Hey. the NOTAMS used to hang on a clipboard in the planning room....
(Written on 2020年08月14日)(Permalink)

Airbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight

People have been talking about this for decades. My father told me this very joke when I was a lad. 76 now..:)
(Written on 2020年08月03日)(Permalink)

Airbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight

Yes, but the drones don't carry people.
(Written on 2020年08月03日)(Permalink)

The Boeing 747: The plane that shrank the world

OK, I have to tell my 747 story. Sometime in the Sept - Oct 1969 time, we were flying out of NAS Whidbey Island, WA to the USAF radar bomb scoring range at Spokane. On check in, every time we went, we would get a multi-minute spiel on the rules and regs. As we were descending into the range altitude, I noticed what looked to be a very close a/c on an extended downwind from Fairchild. The range kept yakking and this a/c got closer and closer and I was getting a bit concerned. At the end of the spiel, the range monitor concluded by saying, "Traffic, 10 o'clock, 10 miles." TEN miles! My first glimpse of a 747.
(Written on 2020年06月26日)(Permalink)

United, American, Delta cut more flights, some executives take pay cuts as coronavirus keeps people from flying

Well, it wasn't "obvious" to me. I learned something. He belongs to the "Those of you who think you know it all really annoy those of us who do" Club.
(Written on 2020年03月17日)(Permalink)

LAX Begins Using Self-Service Luggage Check-In System

So, what does TSA think about this? Now there are some jobs we could lose....
(Written on 2020年02月28日)(Permalink)

Boeing orders 737 Max inspections after fuel tank FOD is found in several Undelievered Planes

Now, THAT is a very interesting thought. One that needs, well, thought on....
(Written on 2020年02月22日)(Permalink)

New video shows that not one but two Iranian missiles has hit the Ukrainian Boeing 737

I would think the first one missed. Because you see a missile explode in the middle of the night and no secondary explosion probably means it missed. Thus, the second launch. It probably missed a little closer, that's why it took longer for the shrapnel to take effect. And, it doesn't appear that the aircraft broke up. Been awhile since I've been there, but "that's my story...."
(Written on 2020年01月17日)(Permalink)

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