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[Gabriel]

What is the indication if you move the landing gear lever up but the gear doesn't go up?
I assume 3 green if they remain down and locked or red if they are in any position other than down and locked or up and locked (lights out).
And an ECAM message for the gear disagree?

[Gabriel]

Some insight to that in the latest AvHerald update:...

[Gabriel]

If I am not mistaken, the first memory item for the PM for an engine failure in take-off is call the failure, and then do nothing.
Take off procedure takes precedence. Rotate, positive climb gear up, monitor pitch and speed V2+. etc... Don't touch any engine control until you achieved certain prescribed height, are past the spike of the take-off workload, and can focus and take your time to identify the bad engine and have it confirmed by both pilots before you attempt to troubleshoot.

I think (but I am not sure) that the same applies to engine fires.

If at the point start troubleshooting and are working on the confirmation of the wrong engine and getting ready to pull the red handle, the captain says "your plane" (terrible, why on Earth would he do that?), you kinda have no choice but to stop whatever you are doing and take control. Flying the plane has precedence over ANY other task including addressing an engine fire (even if that's not written...

[Gabriel]

I think it's more a bit of language / cultural barrier than anything to do with ISO....

[Gabriel]

I don't know if you noted or not. ThreeWee was a reference to 3WE to whom I was replying.
And as a side note, 3WE, aslo known as K3WE, was a now defunct airport from where 3WE (the guy) used to operate.

All that said, I didn't know that people called Teeny Weenie Airlines to Trans World Airlines (TWA). Strange, because it was not precisely a very small airline. According to Wikipedia, at a time TWA was the world's third-largest airline by passenger-miles, behind Aeroflot and United. Was that an internal joke or also people outside of the industry called it like that?...

[Gabriel]

Are all those memory items?

[Gabriel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTu3Hu5PvYE...

[Gabriel]

It seems she is about to take-off from there...

http://avherald.com/h?article=50e4701a&opt=0...

[Gabriel]

Wait. What is the deductible? And do you make the deductible? And if you do, how much do you still need to keep laying in terms of copay?
You need to compare the health plan cost + the total out-of-the-ocket expenses to compare apples to apples.

I have a high-deductible insurance plan, and I generally make the deductible towards the end of the year which means that during most of the year I have to pay 100% for everything (including prescriptions) except preventive care.

The only reasons why I pay the insurance are:
1) That 100% (full price) is the full price negotiated between the provider and the insurance, which is x times lower than if you go without insurance. That by itself makes no sense. It doesn't cost more, or offer more value, to get the service from the provider without insurance than with. Rather the opposite. With insurance the provider has to do a lot of paperwork.
2) I can benefit from the $1500 that my employer puts in my HSA....

[Gabriel]

Source: AvHerald...

[Gabriel]

I went to a restaurant once, their food was horrible.
Conclusion, restaurants serve horrible food....

[Gabriel]

Interesting updates in http://avherald.com/h?article=50e4701a&opt=0

[Gabriel]

Well, flaps and slats seem to be fully extended, which opens a new set of questions I suppose. Were they extended since the 1st approach?


Actually not, and it should be in plain sight in the picture taken from below/behind, unless it was torn in the landing.

But most likely the pilots decided to find a good filed and land short of running out of fuel....

[Gabriel]

ThreeWee Airlines?...

[Gabriel]

Also, I wonder if the pilot performed the landing while they still had some fuel (as they should) or if they waited until the engines run out of fuel and then performed a forced landing.

[Gabriel]

From the pictures here: http://avherald.com/h?article=50e4701a&opt=0, the landing gear doors are hanging down which means that the landing gear was extended using the alternate method (gravity), which is consistent with a hydraulic failure.

What is the report you mention?

We need to know why they didn't land at the originally intended destination.
If they had a hydraulic failure, extended the gear manually, and only then realized that the runway was going to be too short, then yes, that was an overlook. And then they didn't realize that they didn't have enough fuel to reach the alternate in that configuration? That is a second overlook in a row, because if you are not going to make it then landing at the original destination in a too-short runway is almost certainly a better option, first because the landing distances have big margins over actual performance, so most of the times you will be able to stop on a "too short" runway, and second...

[Gabriel]

Link?

[Gabriel]

I think the verb you are looking for is "must"....

[Gabriel]

Well, judge by yourself:



Evan, do you prefer your major airline pilot to know how to execute the procedures or to know how airplanes fly? ("both" is not an acceptable answer)...