Aircraft

2007-12-11 22:18:39 · 34 answers · asked by vijay j 1

............ i sometimes cannot imagine what is going on out there. like nobody would ever have heard something about ATC phraseologies.
i mean, let's take this example.
ATC final approach control to the flight XX: XX, 10 miles from winni, fly heading 010, reduce to 190 kn, cross winni at or above 4000, intercept the localizer.

and the answer from that pilot was someting like: "winni at or above 4000, interecpting". i mean, he just didn't acknowledge at lot of informations. is that really normal? i mean we all know that busy airports do not have much time that like everybody repeats every ATC advice, but is that the really good way?

2007-12-11 15:43:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was flying a 747 on FS2004, on approach and about to disengage the air brakes at 250 knots and 5,000 ft altitiude , is this a simulation glitch?

2007-12-11 15:04:12 · 8 answers · asked by Chris Rose 2

I am looking to do kind of a cool, contemporary style in my house while incorporating some of my husbands style as well. he is really into airplanes so I thought it would look really cool if I found an old, full size airplane propeller to anchor to my wall. However, I don't even know where to begin finding something like that. Does anyone know of any airplane junkyards or something like that where I could find one?

2007-12-11 12:03:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are safety implications for other pilots on board?

2007-12-11 10:05:55 · 10 answers · asked by stuttgart 3

911 and its relationship to the golfer Payne Stewart and 2005 (100+ fatality) Helios decompression crashes
Submitted by sy levine on Sun, 2007-02-25 09:04. aviation and aerospace
At first look it isn't obvious that the Payne Stewart(golfer)/ Helios(2005 - 100+fatality) decompression crashes and 911 are related but from a aviation safety and security system view they are:

When a plane substantially deviates from its approved flight plan it is presently possible to have a remote pilot located in a secure simulator fly the plane to a safe landing at a remotely populated airfield. Over 70% of all fatal air crashes occurrences are readily preventable if handled correctly.

Unfortunately, the data needed to accomplish this is locked up in the flight recorder and is utilized predominately in an autopsy mode. If the data is so important that it is necessary to discover the cause of a fatal crash it is much more important to prevent a fatal crash. Yet because of the aviation industry's partnership with the FAA and NTSB none of the flight data coming out of the recorders is available in real-time to proactively prevent fatal crashes. The inability to use the flight data in real time has jeopardized the safety and security of the traveling public and the nation. The astronauts were guided back from the moon because the data was telemetered to the ground in real-time. Once it got to the ground it was analyzed, and then via a concerted effort by experts, using simulations the proper and safe way to handle life threatening situation was accomplished. Yet this proven technique isn't utilized by the industrial/government partnership to keep our nation and air-passengers safe and secure.

One year prior to 911, I was the guest speaker at the International Aviation Safety Association meeting in NY where I spoke on how terrorists and decompression fatal crashes are preventable via remote control of a deviating aircraft using ciphered technology developed for our ballistic missiles. This technology can prevent most aviation crashes (approximately 70%) even those from mechanical problems and errors of commission and omission. At present a pilot has displayed only a fraction of the information necessary to make the right decision to prevent a crash. The pilot in many instances is seeing a problem for the first time. The aircraft data and air traffic control data isn't shared extensively so experts on handling the aircraft's problem aren’t consulted nor can the problem be simulated to aid in crash prevention. This data vacuum is responsible for most fatal crashes. For example, the Swiss Air and Alaskan Air fatal crashes could have been prevented if handled correctly.

In addition it is not only terrorists that sabotage aircraft. Commercial and Military pilots have also done it. When a pilot deviates substantially from the approved flight plan the aircraft should be safely remote piloted to a landing at a sparsely populated airport. Several years ago a rogue military pilot substantially deviated from his approved Continental United States (CONUS) flight plan and flew an A-10 aircraft loaded with bombs clandestinely across multiple states. It took two weeks to find the plane which had crashed into a Colorado mountain. The plane was eventually found but the bombs are still missing. Exhaustive searches were made but no one has a clew as to what happened to the bombs. Must we wait for a bigger disaster than 911 before any action takes place?

Everyone knowledgeable about the holes in our aviation system, brought about by the industrial government partnership, knew that a 911 could occur and the government allowed it to occur. Even though we knew about Payne Stewart nothing was done and so we got Helios' 100 + deaths. Presently we are just as vulnerable to a 911 disaster, decompression disaster, ... etc. as we were in 2001. The public needs to know the system is fixable for the good of our nation. Even though 3000 people died needlessly on 911 the system doesn't fix the data vacuum mode of operation. It works around the system with attempted patches that are costly and ineffective fixes simply to protect the industry from liability suits. The necessary data is only available in the tombstone/autopsy mode. With all of the deaths that were preventable not a single FAA or NTSB person was even laid-off. Thus, the industry won out and the public and nation suffered. It is quite possible that we went into an unnecessary and horrible war just because we protected the special interest of the aviation industry. The cost of those disasters alone would have been a small fraction of the cost necessary to fix the system and we would now have a safer and securer nation. Instead, things are the same and we are vulnerable.

If you should need more info on this please don't hesitate to contact me (you can see some of my work by going to Google and doing a search on "aviation security, safety and sy levine" or go to my web site www.safelander.com. My work was also featured on the BBC show called "The Black Box". There is simply no reason, technical, cost or data privacy wise" for not using the Black Box Data in real-time, in addition to its autopsy mode, to make our nation safer and securer. The fear of liability, via law suits, should not stand in the way of the airline passenger safety, the safety of people on the ground, or our national security. It is imperative that the traveling public write to the President, their Congressional Representatives, the DOT, FAA and NTSB and demand that the Black Box data be available and utilized in real-time for the security of our nation and to substantially reduce fatal crashes.

Sincerely,
Sy Levine
sylevine1@sbcglobal.net

2007-12-11 07:34:11 · 9 answers · asked by stuttgart 3

2007-12-11 06:55:12 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

kids and kids' mother? i saw how he responded to an answer and I truly feel sorry for that woman and her kids. I wish the courts had what he posted here to help her case.

2007-12-11 00:38:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-10 22:24:29 · 11 answers · asked by Ponto 1

2007-12-10 18:05:47 · 13 answers · asked by helper725 3

2007-12-10 16:02:18 · 10 answers · asked by andre b 1

2007-12-10 10:43:04 · 3 answers · asked by gregory_mouser 1

My family was planning a trip to Italy and we have the plane tickets purchased and everything. However, my dad passed away suddenly and now the airlines need a death certificate to prove my dad has passed away. But death certificates take forever to be processed, and we leave for Italy at Christmastime.

We have tried asking everywhere, including the airlines and everyone just seems too hard to get a hold of. Wonder if anyone knows anything else.

2007-12-10 05:39:49 · 11 answers · asked by screendreams 3

If the aircraft engines are incredibly quiet, the build up of sound shock waves would be less intense, then breaking through it would be easier, isn't it?

2007-12-09 17:16:01 · 6 answers · asked by Michael C 2

2007-12-09 16:14:04 · 14 answers · asked by sreeja s 1

2007-12-09 14:11:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mark said re interruptions during checklists; --Happens all the time. Calls from ATC. Calls from other aircraft. Calls from company. Altitude callouts. Configuration commands.
The distraction research used cameras to watch what car drivers were actually doing.
Pilots are trained much better than car drivers but human factors/failures are critical to both road & air safety.

2007-12-09 10:47:44 · 7 answers · asked by stuttgart 3

Airlines:
1 - Pilots should enter through another hatch - the cockpit should be completely sealed off - no one gets in or out unless it's on the ground.

2 - If terrorists should be found on board, the pilots should override the oxygen masks dropping and depressurize the plane just enough so everyone goes unconscious - like in the Stephen King movie "The Langoliers"

WHO CAN I WRITE TO THAT WILL TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AND GET IT DONE?

2007-12-09 10:44:45 · 12 answers · asked by thedavecorp 6

The project should involve experiments, portfolio and presentation so which topic relating to aircraft / aerospace would be good to do for my project.
Any help / ideas welcomed.

Thanks.

2007-12-09 09:19:49 · 9 answers · asked by (A.a.K) 4

does IAS show more than actual speed or less?for headwind and tailwind

2007-12-09 07:52:20 · 7 answers · asked by ordibeheshd 1

2007-12-09 07:20:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you beleave that it crashed because of turbulence?

2007-12-08 15:39:26 · 6 answers · asked by They Call me Bob 4

2007-12-08 08:33:08 · 0 answers · asked by helper725 3

See this picture

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Thak You

2007-12-08 07:08:20 · 2 answers · asked by Jose C 1

Hello this question is mainly for members of the UK i live in London however have a caravan in Kent would any one beable to tell me where my nearest school would be and if there are any microlight pilots what it is like i have allways wanted to fly and i understand this is a very cheap way to do it how safe is it?????? I have done a lot of reserch into PPLs however as im sure you can tell not so good with microlighting.

hope you guys can help

Thanks

Tom

2007-12-08 05:43:17 · 2 answers · asked by Tom W 1

.....per flyed way?

2007-12-08 04:20:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am just wondering why if i taxi manually without the Auto pilot, i go faster and faster eventhough i just moved the throttle a little bit??

2007-12-08 01:02:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 21:20:05 · 12 answers · asked by zameensas 2

for example i had tpook off from runway 7L from Frankfurt and im on my way and expectded heading would be around 20 degrees wqest how is this?

2007-12-07 19:55:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The other day I saw an airplane near NSCB airport at Calcutta at a low altitude having two engines at its rear. What sort of airplane was it?

2007-12-07 17:23:21 · 12 answers · asked by sexy grandmother 4