The current spacing is 30 NM apart (reduced from 60 last November). Aircraft on the same track can be at the same altitude and need not comply with even/odd altitudes as done in radar environments. Separation is carefully monitored using ADS-C and CPDLC and adherence to constant mach number.
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TCAS is independent of radar. Traffic is depicted, TAs and RAs work as long as the other aircraft also has TCAS.
I haven’t kept up with retention rates, but airline jobs are not what they used to be. Only in the last few years have they began to recover from the decade of despair. The Air Force has a history of being particularly callous to pilots expressing a desire to separate at EOO (end of obligation) by offering only…
Other than the uncomfortably greater finacial risk of bending the more powerful and expensive sports car, I actually find it more fun- now I can catch that Abarth in the straight that ate me up in the twisties. However, my wife now says if I harm the car, she will leave me. As a compromise, I now buy track day…
‘Cept for the nearly naked italian maidens serving delicious tasties and vino, the red carpet, the car-porn paparazzi, and the Saudi princes.
True dat. Rumor has it that Cars & Coffee curbhopper’s originally 100% nitrogen filled tires were, unbeknownst to him, serviced days earlier with regular air. Naturally, his precise calculations of leakage rate were thus thrown off due to the mixed gases resulting in a lower pressure at the time of the incident. He…
ATSB report says they aligned it to a position somewhere near Cape Town, SA- 11000Km away. Boeing FMCs would say “insufficient fuel”. I looked it up and Thales FMGCs don’t do this. Should have something wrong on Fuel Pred page though.
From the ATSB report:
That would not have helped here unless the crosscheck included initial position verification. The legs page and ND would look just fine but the the aircraft symbology would be elsewhere ( during legs verification, the map is centered on the fix, not the airplane position). During taxi out, they could have noticed that…
“ended up flying 6,000 kilometers (that’s 3,728 miles) out of its way.”
Most IRSs remember the last known position and will alert you if you try to align it to coordinates that differ by 50 or so miles. That alert can be overridden though. In essence, they ask you “are you sure thats where we are?” The error here was compounded by executing a checklist for unreliable airspeed once…
Not the way they did it. The F/O turned the ADIRS 1 and 3 off which dumped positional information and degraded the flight computers to alternate law- removing many envelope protections and making the aircraft harder to fly. Had that not been done the is a way to update the position manually but not after turning the…
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Much rather ride that thing down to the ground that the cockpit evac devices:
Of course the Hawkeye T56s are always running at 100% meaning virtually no spoolup- nearly instant thrust. As an added bonus, the wings are bathed in prop wash which creates what is essentially augmented lift. Having flown P-3s with 4 T56s, I can attest to the value of instant thrust and lift- probably a different…
Gives a new meaning to “car porn”.
“So how do I drive 20,000 to 25,000 miles a year? Because I absolutely love to drive.”
“was: Acura TL and now: A6": What a coincidence, I miss my Acura, but my wife Blondie just thinks our new Audi has more room...wait, where do you live?
Looks to me like GLOC. Second time since 2008. Time to dispense with fashion and pride and done the G-suit?