Bah, Airbus computers will handle it all...

(Written on 2020年 09月 18日)(Permalink)

"Klasjet carried out its own probe into the event, noting several aspects in its findings which the Spanish investigators might have addressed with safety recommendations. Given these findings, the inquiry does not believe any further recommendations are necessary." Uh... where the recommendations to have these guys start over again with a Cessna?

(Written on 2020年 09月 11日)(Permalink)

When driving my wife's minivan, if I use the Adaptive Cruise Control, I still "guard" (as you put it) the fuel pedal. And when on my motorcycle, the left hand always had two fingers over the clutch lever when it's on the grip... One the first rules I was taught: "cover the controls just in case"

(Written on 2020年 09月 11日)(Permalink)

Very nice!

(Written on 2020年 07月 17日)(Permalink)

Gotta see a picture of your rig...

(Written on 2020年 07月 17日)(Permalink)

Yup--I properly registered and labeled mine before charging the batteries when my wife got me one for Christmas a few years ago. Mostly use it to inspect my second-floor roof and gutters ;) Unfortunately, I'm inside Class C airspace and inside the 5nm radius, but at least I can get LAANC authorizations for flights up to 100' AGL: if I lived two blocks closer, I'd be in a 0' grid. I'm interested to see what happens when UAS Remote Identification goes into effect... though with so many pre-UASID drones will exist by then that can't be retrofitted, it'll take a long time until they're completely eliminated and we don't have to worry about incidents like this one.

(Written on 2020年 07月 11日)(Permalink)

If it fell off takeoff before being stowed, I'm assuming since no one reported finding the wheel at the end of runway 13 at LGA or landing in somewhere Flushing or Murray Hill, it is most likely in Flushing Bay... I'm sure the gear was up before they passed over Little Neck Bay... Other option is it is in Lake Ontario, having fallen out when the gear were lowered (again, had it fallen off over downtown Toronto, I'm sure that would have been noted...).

(Written on 2020年 02月 21日)(Permalink)

Looking at the flight track for this flight (https://flightaware.com/live/flight/TVS1125/history/20190822/0620Z/LGSM/LKPR), by the time they had dropped to FL24, they were 25 nm from Thessaloniki (SKG/LGTS) [two 8,000' runways]... even after continuing as they tried to restart it, they passed within minutes of the St. Paul the Apostle (OHD/LWOH), Macedonia [8,366'] and Sofia (SOF/LBSF), Bulgaria [11,811'] most likely well after they gave up hope of restarting...

(Written on 2019年 09月 01日)(Permalink)

I was going to say, didn't we have the same discussion after Air France a few years ago? They focused on the systems and forgot to "Fly the D**n Plane!"

(Written on 2019年 06月 03日)(Permalink)

Maybe they could have done as they did when CFA got a contract to go into the Mercedes-Benz Stadium: on Sunday, another vendor occupies the space... https://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-mercedes-benz-stadium-closes-fries-up-sundays-super-bowl-2019-1/

(Written on 2019年 06月 03日)(Permalink)