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[riobeard11]

Ouch! this has got to hurt,It was sooner or later going to happen to someone I guess.

 

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Ouch is right! I don't know if I'd be interested in "surfing the fence" ...

 

 

 

How about this awesome approach to Paro Airport in Bhutan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlKApjc9T2U

 

Apparently only 8 pilots in the world are certified to make this landing!

[riobeard11]

We're having an extremely windy day here in DC - looks like a United Airlines 737 blew two rear tires when landing this morning in the bad weather:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/uni...CD6S_story.html

[robert sadler]

Amusing conversation air traffic controller having a tough day at JFK

 

 

 

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[riobeard11]

Here's a few of my pictures from the Discovery delivery on the modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft this morning

 

Was very cool to be able to be on the runway for the landing and then taken over to view the parked aircraft.

 

Edited April 17, 2012 at 06:49 PM by riobeard11

[robert sadler]

Here's a few of my pictures from the Discovery delivery on the modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft this morning

 

Was very cool to be able to be on the runway for the landing and then taken over to view the parked aircraft.

 

 

I remember that flying over Birmingham and then landing at Stansted In 1983 I went down with my father

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6ngaHWJxs

 

I still have some fairly old picture of it to it was a very rare sight on our shores.

 

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[robert sadler]

Something new Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson on Ice cubes very odd is Ryanair crazy ideas starting to rub off him with silly ideas.What ever next?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelne...d-ice-cube.html

 

 

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[riobeard11]

I was wondering what Southwest would do with all of those AirTran 717's

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120522-712447.html

[Bralo20]

On Friday 01JUN2012 Brussels Airlines inaugurated their first transatlantic flight between Brussels and New York JFK. For this purpose I had booked a trip to New York where I would start a trip from New York to Montréal, Ottowa, Boston and back to New York.

 

I made 2 trip reports, including pictures, about the flights:

 

01JUN2012: BRU-JFK in economy class: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-report...-01jun2012.html

10JUN2012: JFK-BRU in business class: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-report...n2012-pics.html

 

I paid the introduction fare of only 400 EUR and was granted a commercial upgrade to business class for the return to Belgium.

 

Other pictures of the trip:

 

iPhone pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39286997@N05/...57630010119593/

Nikon pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39286997@N05/...57630109631696/

[riobeard11]

Looks like a comfy ride on the way home!

 

Are you too tall for the lay-flat business seat? Or is there enough room?

[robert sadler]

A nice new British airways ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6VzhDE1Wso&sns=em

just enter your post code in the one below rather clever

http://taxi.ba.com/

 

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[Bralo20]

Looks like a comfy ride on the way home!

 

Are you too tall for the lay-flat business seat? Or is there enough room?

 

It was a very comfy ride home I'm quite happy with Brussels Airlines' new seats, even in economy (cattle) it was quite OK (at least in the exit seats), food was great, service awesome...

 

I'm indeed to tall for the new seats, I'm above 2 meters tall and I have big feet (size 51) and I do have problems with the area where your feet are, but in the end it still was a comfy ride home...

I'm used to United's old recliners in business and compared to that it's a big step up even though United's old recliners are very comfortable. I hope to fetch the new business class on United one day, maybe next year when I go to Vegas again, I have still a bunch of miles sitting with UA so I can easily upgrade my flights.

[riobeard11]

^ Ah yeah, I see that the area for the feet could be cramped with height/big feet. But, hey...it's still a reclining seat!

 

Just returned from LA and Vegas - loved the Delta 763. It was very comfortable and plenty of leg room for me!

 

The flights home were not so fortunate, they switched our 757 to an MD90 which I don't like...and we were placed in an exit row which was nice for leg room, but no reclining is annoying. The A319 for the flight into DCA was a bit old, but I was sitting just in front of the wing so I had fun watching the thrust reversers with a good view after landing. Unfortunately we came in from the south, so I didn't get to enjoy the river visual approach

 

I really just don't like the way the MD90 (or MD88) fly. When they're stepping down and lowering speed it's so much more noticeable to me than when flying on other aircraft. I also don't like how it seems to feel like it takes forever to climb once off the ground. Is this just me?

 

 

 

And finally - did everyone see this ANA 767's hard landing that creased the fuselage?? Happened just last week. Yikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw-aUVa3a0U

Edited June 27, 2012 at 03:56 PM by riobeard11

[robert sadler]

How about these for choppy flights

A crazy take off it looks like the aircraft was almost on its max crosswind very well controlled take off

 

A very windy approach with added wind shear and a go around

 

Rather a bumpy ride on the approach

 

British airways flight with a bit of in flight turbulence

 

I would say I do love flying but going through what some of these passengers was put through I must admit it looks rather uncomfortable.

At least the pilots know what they are dealing with and very professional.

 

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[Bralo20]

The final report of the Air France flight 447 crash on June 1, 2009 (flight AF447 flown with an Airbus A330-203) was released today, everyone interested in the matter can download the reports on the BEA website:

 

French: http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.../f-cp090601.pdf

English: http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601...cp090601.en.pdf

 

More documents can be found on BEA's website: http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af....rt.final.en.php

 

Summarized conclusion (need to verify this by reading the actual report but this is what the media is saying):

 

- Faulty readings on the airspeed due frozen "pitot tubes"

- Wrong reaction by the pilots on the stall warning (they issued "nose up" commands while they should have issued "nose down" commands together with increase in speed)

- Lack op appropriate training of the crew

- Questions with Airbus' Joystick command system (There isn't a feedback from left to right and reverse, when one pilot pulls the joystick the other doesn't notice it in his own joystick), Boeing (and others) connect both controls together (even in a fly by wire plane) to let the other pilot know what imput the other is making, the yoke on left/right will make the same movement as the opposite side.

- Failing of command structure in the cockpit during the emergency

- Failing to recognize the emergency by the crew (they thought they were in a high speed stall when it was actually the opposite and they were stalling by lack of speed)

- ...

 

 

BEA is the investigation agency of French from aviation accidents, they don't issue a "fault" verdict. BEA only says what caused the crash. Another investigation which is conducted by the French justice system will (if necessary) convict parties for the incident. AFAIK the French justice has issued preliminary manslaughter accusations against Air France and Airbus. During the next couple of weeks it will be known if those (and maybe other) parties will be going to a trial.

Edited July 5, 2012 at 04:37 PM by Bralo20

[riobeard11]

Thanks for posting!

 

I was just reading about this the other night - the transcript of the cockpit recordings is so sad to read when you hear that he was holding the stick back the entire time.

 

Is this something Airbus will likely correct so that both sticks move?

[riobeard11]

Flying an Airbus...so easy Joan Rivers can do it?

 

[robert sadler]

Flying an Airbus...so easy Joan Rivers can do it?

 

I have always wondered If Celine has ever learnt to fly,she seems to like travel round the world, I wonder if she even tempted to have ago at the controls of her private jet while doing her tours

 

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[riobeard11]

I have always wondered If Celine has ever learnt to fly,she seems to like travel round the world, I wonder if she even tempted to have ago at the controls of her private jet while doing her tours

 

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If I had a jet I would definitely be curious to pop into the cockpit and see how things were working! I think Celine is a bit afraid of flying, though...you can see sometimes in TTEOTW that she's a little nervous with turbulence and she doesn't seem to like takeoff too much! (All the most exciting parts of a flight if you ask me )

[robert sadler]

If I had a jet I would definitely be curious to pop into the cockpit and see how things were working! I think Celine is a bit afraid of flying, though...you can see sometimes in TTEOTW that she's a little nervous with turbulence and she doesn't seem to like takeoff too much! (All the most exciting parts of a flight if you ask me )

 

I did notice that too,I guess anyone who does not have that sense of control over flight,I do feel that is one of the issues of nervous and even some regular flyers still even have even with take offs and landings and a bit of turbulence has an affect on people,I to have had my far share of rough flights over the Atlantic and europe and I would admit I do love flying but it can make me a little concerned. but I sure Celine is one tough bird is human like us all and I bet she could handle anything.

 

 

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[riobeard11]

After dropping my brother off at DCA last evening I stopped at the parking lot at the end of Runway 1/beginning of 19 for some spotting. The sun was above me so I didn't get any good pictures...

 

They were taking off on 1, so I didn't get any good views of the river approach. Next time I'm bored and see them landing on 19 I'll head over and snap some good shots

[robert sadler]

Plane spotters made news at Heathrow Airport.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19045365

 

 

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[robert sadler]

A very interesting doc about about a British Airways 747 on a D check being totally stripped and checked and flying again within 2 months

 

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[riobeard11]

Cool little documentary! That's amazing how fast they were able to turn that around...

[robert sadler]

A very interesting take off in mud not a easy take off as you can see, the pilots must of been on the vodka .

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c1_1350976434

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=573_1350964261

 

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[riobeard11]

Omg how the hell did that thing even get off the ground?

[robert sadler]

There seems to be a lack of deicing going on here

then a couple of contract pilots got a little bored in Madagaska tree level flying with and aircraft almost the size of a boeing 737

[riobeard11]

Why wouldn't the Delta pilot stop and make sure everything is okay after a skid like that?!

[robert sadler]

Why wouldn't the Delta pilot stop and make sure everything is okay after a skid like that?!

Hi riobeard11, I am afraid I am not sure what delta flight you might be referring too.

 

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[riobeard11]

Hi riobeard11, I am afraid I am not sure what delta flight you might be referring too.

 

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I totally must have clicked to it from another video and wasn't paying attention when I posed that

 

But I was referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGeKdNxH4U

Edited December 16, 2012 at 07:06 PM by riobeard11

[robert sadler]

I would say the delta pilot throttling up to early of his rolling departure and taking the corner a little to sharp and to fast the weight of the aircraft would of keeped the aicraft on the runway may be hence a lot of smoke, it would not of caused to much concern and he remained on the runway and continue his departure as normal,but i am only guessing and my possible view not like some flights we have had at birmingham, below

 

UAE flight cuts the corner a little short at birmingham airport {UK}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aBw7nth5Os&NR=1&feature=endscreen

earlier on this year also at Birmingham the pilot expidited at high speed and miss judged the turn.

Not at Birmingham below but someone I would guess would of had to to do a big write report, you might of seen already or heard about it came across this a while back a rather expensive mistake by ground crew,watch carefully what happens see if you can see the biggest mistake i have ever seen,all i can say is ouch!

 

 

anyway Merry Christmas and a happy new year

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