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Originally posted by kris View PostThey have finally landed there after all. Sure, I don't say he was in perfect condition.
This may be true, but I simply don't know for sure.
Let me ask you this question. How safe would you feel with this pilot in this condition, vs the condition that he had at 11000ft? Remember, a drunk driver that manages to drive at 150 MPH in the highway dodging other cars and makes it home "safely" was still drunk and it was still not safe. Same here.
By the way:
Unable to control altitude.
Unable to control airspeed.
Unable to control heading.
Other than that, everything A-OK.
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Postwhat makes you think those functions aren't built into the system? seems kinda strange that boeing, of all folks, would design and patent a system that couldn't do the whole job. but hey, what do i know?
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Originally posted by HalcyonDays View PostIs that the Eastwind incident ?
The crew experienced unexpected movement of the rudder, causing the airplane to roll to the right. They applied opposite aileron input to keep the plane from rolling over and thirty seconds later the plane righted itself back to leveled flight. As the crew performed the emergency checklist, the plane again rolled over to the right. After another thirty seconds the plane snapped back to leveled flight. The crew declared an emergency and landed safely in Richmond. Investigation of this incident would later help solve two other accidents, United Airlines Flight 585 and USAir Flight 427.
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostI really don't see how that could be done. All of the drones have fixed gear!
The DC-9 has auto-salts.
The Piper Lance has auto gear (Although it was disabled by an AD when pilots relied to much on it to lower the gear for them and then blamed the failure of the autogear for their wheels-up landing. The famous primary-backup inversion. Reminds me of Asiana blaming the autothrottle in the wrong mode for not maintaining the speed for them).
The gear and flaps extension schedule can be very easily programmed in a Ti-99/4A.
10 LET FLAPS1 = 0
20 LET FLAPS = 0
30 LET GEAR1 = 0
40 LET GEAR = 0
50 IF SPEED < 220 THEN LET FLAPS = 5
60 IF SPEED < 200 THEN LET FLAPS = 10 AND LET GEAR = 1
70 IF SPEED < 180 THEN LET FLAPS = 20
80 IF SPEED < 160 THEN LET FLAPS = 30
90 IF GEAR <> GEAR1 THEN LET GEAR1 = GEAR
100 IF FLAPS <> FLAPS1 THEN LET FLAPS1 = FLAPS
110 GOTO 50
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Oh, and your 747 raises the flaps by itself if you are not cautious enough not to overspeed them, no?
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Hey we have auto STARTS not salts in the 400 and the -8. That is not the same as putting the flaps down, arming the speed brakes, setting the auto brakes and dropping the gear. Maybe they figure they will just land her on her belly at the place of their choosing and not worry about coming in at 165 knots clean and sliding down the asphalt for 12000'. I hope the shuttle landing strip in Florida and Edwards AFB in California are in the database!
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostI really don't see how that could be done. All of the drones have fixed gear!
(That doesn't mean that there isn't a pilot remotely lowering the landing gear)
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostHey we have auto STARTS not salts in the 400 and the -8.
Ask Vnav. He flies MD-80s.
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Originally posted by Gabriel View PostOh, and your 747 raises the flaps by itself if you are not cautious enough not to overspeed them, no?
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostSorry Charlie, wrong information! There is a flap blow back system to protect the flaps from 30 to 25 and 25 to 20 but that is it. And your right I see the predators in Afghanistan all the time landing and taking off but they already have the gear down.
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Originally posted by HalcyonDays View PostRegarding the 737s - presumably you mean the rudder hardovers - in what way was the explanation that was found accidental ?
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For what it's worth...
THERE are unconfirmed reports that the black box flight recorder from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found.
Perth radio station 6PR tweeted the report, citing aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is in China, is giving a pre-planned press conference at 2pm AEST.
Mr Thomas indicated the PM would address the latest MH370 developments then.
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Bad news, and it's official:
The Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (Ret'd), said an initial assessment of the possible signal detected by a RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft yesterday afternoon has been determined as not related to an aircraft underwater locator beacon.
See for yourself:
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Originally posted by Gabriel View Post- - Boeing already has a patent for an uniterruptible autopilot that can be activated by the crew, by authorities in the ground, or automatically when a given criteria is met, and that will take all control away from the pilots (or criminals aboard) and automatically fly and land at some predetermined or uploaded location.
A number of web sites going down is one thing, but what if there are thousands of lifes at disposal? With such a remote control system, you have hundreds of targets in the air every day, accessible to pretty much eberybody. They can try as much as they want to find a hole in the security chain and once found, it's a matter of minutes to compromise all other airborne planes, too.
Originally posted by Gabriel View PostAdditionally:
- Add 10 hours of video recording. 10 hours too. I know that some are concerned by the memory capacity needed. But one SD card can store 250 GB (15 dvds of the highest capacity), and you don't need 25 frames per second like in Hollywood films. With 5 I'm happy. And sorry pilots if you are worried for your privacy. We are being videoed everywhere everytime, including many times in our workplace. So why not you?
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