DIIdude said:I love my rover, but that's a scary thought.
HAHA...I'm gonna have to take the back..lol...you are absolutely right!!!
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HAHA...I'm gonna have to take the back..lol...you are absolutely right!!!
Pretty fast, but that's kind of a loaded question.
Maybe. But I have a recurring dream...I'm sure you've heard/had it before....
[Flight Attendent running back to the cabin, yelling:]
FA: "Anyone back here know how to fly?!"
Me: "Yeah, I can"
FA: "Can you fly this plane?"
Me: "Sure I can." (that's what's they teach all software guys to say)
FA: "Get up here to the cockpit, quick! The pilots are dead!!"
Me: "Hot damn...."
Maybe. But I have a recurring dream...I'm sure you've heard/had it before....
yes i have that fantasy all trhe time.
i flew the a330 in a full flight simulator in france 5 times.
take off no problem.
landed hard but no crash indications on the computer.
they asked me if i flew before.
i said only on Navy Carriers.
am i a Navy pilot , no way
i flew jet fighter II on my computer for years.
no joke.it gave me the experience to fly a joy stick aircraft.
jim
yes i have that fantasy all trhe time.
i flew the a330 in a full flight simulator in france 5 times.
take off no problem.
landed hard but no crash indications on the computer.
they asked me if i flew before.
i said only on Navy Carriers.
am i a Navy pilot , no way
i flew jet fighter II on my computer for years.
no joke.it gave me the experience to fly a joy stick aircraft.
jim
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The newer fly-by-wire aircraft are amazing in the fact that they have triple redundacy in both flight controls and hydraulic systems. However, in a powershed situation, your life could come down to the strength of a lowest-bid battery powering a single Flight Control Computer
The Airbus product line is pretty impressive, but being a Boeing guy I am kinda biassed......
hey v22 guy
ive asked before do you fly it???
im born and bred boeing .i was weened on the good old 707 then the JUMBO , then airbus was giving the planes away for nothing.
you know money talks bs walks.
so i learned to like airbus BUT they had to prove themselves to me first.
they have.
in a power shed situation a ram air turbine pops out of the wing automaticly .its attached to a hydraulic pump giving hyd pressure to essential systems but most of all a constant speed generator to power a few computers.
but
you have to be in a good glide situation and pray alot.
jim
p.s we did a test of the rat (ram air turbine) in flt once.it dropped automaticly as it should and proceeded to separate from its mounts and continue up and through the bottom of the wing and partialy out the top of the wing.we lost a real lot of fuel fast.
it was exciteing to say the least.
ps again do you fly the osprey???
ive asked before do you fly it???
im born and bred boeing .i was weened on the good old 707 then the JUMBO , then airbus was giving the planes away for nothing.
you know money talks bs walks.
so i learned to like airbus BUT they had to prove themselves to me first.
they have.
in a power shed situation a ram air turbine pops out of the wing automaticly .its attached to a hydraulic pump giving hyd pressure to essential systems but most of all a constant speed generator to power a few computers.
but
you have to be in a good glide situation and pray alot.
jim
p.s we did a test of the rat (ram air turbine) in flt once.it dropped automaticly as it should and proceeded to separate from its mounts and continue up and through the bottom of the wing and partialy out the top of the wing.we lost a real lot of fuel fast.
it was exciteing to say the least.
ps again do you fly the osprey???
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No, I am not a V-22 Pilot. I have had the opportunity to fly in the Osprey numerous times and have a few hundred hours flying the FSS. Believe me, after 2000 hours in Military Helos (as a crewchief), the Osprey is one great aircraft.
Yes they did. It's a great deal for AB being subsidized buy the EU. They had a surplus of planes laying around from a defaulted order, and the carriers picked them up for cheap. It was a great deal economically for the carriers, but a bad deal for future airline purchases....kinda like GM and their discounts.
It's kinda weird, in todays FBW aircraft, you can have 2 or even 4 engines running beautifully. But, lose a converter, a mission computer, or even a simple power splice from overlooked maintenance, and you can have a black cockpit! Yeah, I can imagine trying to glide 1 million pounds to the nearest GPS listed airport. Thank goodness today's reliability rates are so so much better than the early days.
believe it or not its been done in an a330.
some spanish airline did it.
fuel leak in the wing went unnoticed by flt crew.
they failed to isolate the wing and continued on.
low fuel warning illuminated they were fucked.
both engines starved of fuel shut down.
the glided to a military airport on some island.
landed safely with 8 flat tires on a short runway.
lucky lucky lucky bastards.
jim
in a blackout situation on heavy jets as long as you have fuel the engines will continue to run.
each engine has its own indepentent from the MAIN GENERATOR , tiny generator that only supplies the engine itself in the event of total elec failure.
under normal situations the eng computers run off the main gen sys untill a TOTAL pwr failure is detected and then they revert to there own independant sys.
the cabin and cockpit could be black withno flt controls but the negines keep ticking as long as you have fuel.as long as the engines push the plane foward the RAT will spin (if it didnt go through the wing) giving you hyd,elecs,and life.
jim
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hey brian
Finnair ?
are you a tech rep?
i use to know your tech rep in Baltimore.
hes retired now , I HOPE , he was up there in years.
yes . i am based at jfk.
i travel around alot for EI.
USA , Europe , been around a bit.
jim
Finnair ?
are you a tech rep?
i use to know your tech rep in Baltimore.
hes retired now , I HOPE , he was up there in years.
yes . i am based at jfk.
i travel around alot for EI.
USA , Europe , been around a bit.
jim
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Yes, Finnair. I'm not a tech rep though. I'm on the flight operations side, load control/weight and balance, all that good stuff. If I'm not on the ramp then I'm on the passenger service side. Never a boring day.
Cheers Brian
Cheers Brian
I hear you .
i would never want to deal with all those assholes.
its been my standard that 10 percent of any group are assholes.
300 pax thats 30 A.H. to start with.
3 flts daily for ei = 300 x3 = 900
10% of 900 = 90 assholes a day.
i will stick with engines and toilets and hydraulic fluid thank you.
cheers back at ya
jim
First flying experience. age 10.
Single engine 4 seat, in Co pilot seat. Told by pilot to keep the plan at a particular heading (4 deg sticks in my mind).
Over the English Channel we went.
Bank of Cloud as we approached the coast.
Go under the clouds he says
As we come under the clouds, Two Huge chimneys of a power station loom immediately in front of us at 140knts, tips at cloud base
We were 0.5miles from airport.
Pretty good for a kid (pre gps era too)
Single engine 4 seat, in Co pilot seat. Told by pilot to keep the plan at a particular heading (4 deg sticks in my mind).
Over the English Channel we went.
Bank of Cloud as we approached the coast.
Go under the clouds he says
As we come under the clouds, Two Huge chimneys of a power station loom immediately in front of us at 140knts, tips at cloud base
We were 0.5miles from airport.
Pretty good for a kid (pre gps era too)
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