What is a detached auto throttle?

(Written on 12/02/2022)(Permalink)

They really need to put science courses back in high school curriculum.

(Written on 12/02/2022)(Permalink)

It will be interesting to see if this shifts over to the passenger carrying airlines. Domestically, at least, it still seems like a lot of people are still flying.

(Written on 11/18/2022)(Permalink)

Most airports I have been traveling through are already crowded, have long lines for food and drinks and don’t have enough seats in their gate areas. Maybe Ontario has room for this, but most airports don’t.

(Written on 10/28/2022)(Permalink)

The pilot’s object to certifying new versions of the 737 without a standard crew alerting system. An ECAS, which is in every cockpit AA flys except for the 737. They are not objecting to the MCAS. As a side note, pilots flying the Max were unaware the aircraft had an MCAS system, because Boeing didn’t tell anyone of its existence. Boeing later stated the MCAS system ran in the “background” and that pilots didn’t need to know it was there. There was no “procedure” to shut off the MCAS.

(Written on 10/07/2022)(Permalink)

Probably be a bidding war for their pilots.

(Written on 08/27/2022)(Permalink)

The Shorts 360 is the box the Twin Otter came in.

(Written on 08/27/2022)(Permalink)

Southwest has lived a charmed life. When they have an incident their PR department does a great job sugar coating whatever happened. Their behind the scenes dealing with the FAA and Boeing really need to come to the surface. Their downwind takeoffs and landings are well known to those of us lined up to takeoff and land into the wind. And of course, they are they only airline that thinks a 737-200 and a 737-800Max are the same airplane.

(Written on 07/29/2022)(Permalink)

Did Delta “charter” a flight from another airline, or just ferry one of their own aircraft, with a bunch of bags onboard, back to DTW? I feel certain they didn’t “charter” an aircraft from themselves.

(Written on 07/17/2022)(Permalink)

Can we ease up on the homophobic comments?

(Written on 06/24/2022)(Permalink)