Training?
All due respect to the viewpoints here, I can understand Wolf's frustration. In the past, you had to have the international experience before getting the keys.
As for the training--it definitely doesn't cover what you learn from experience and its very distracting when flying with...
Not the first time
GENERAL INFORMATION
Data Source: ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT DATABASE
Report Number: 19911021058499G
Local Date: 21-OCT-91
Local Time:
City: FRANKLIN
State...
Narrative on referenced incident
According to the Aviation Safety Network, a service of the FSF.
Narrative:
A BAe-125 owned by the Botswana Government was carrying the President of Botswana, J.K. Quett Masire, and his staff to a meeting in Luanda. An Angolan MiG-23 Flogger pilot fired two...
Bwb
time builder
Oh, so this is merely conceptual, probably not going materialize. Thanks for clarifying.
I can see concepts and plans being made in Long Beach, but not additional heavy aircraft manufacturing. Have you ever been there? The C17 manufacturing is crammed in there as it is.
The...
Actually, the posted article refers only to a generic 570 MPH for the Airbus. The official Airbus website states that the A380's MMO, (not cruise), is .89.
"why Long Beach???"
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems...
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Boeing to take on Airbus with 1000 seat giant 797 Blended Wing plane
Boeing is preparing a 1000 passenger jet that could reshape the Air travel industry for the next 100 years.
The radical Blended Wing design has been developed by Boeing incooperation with the NASA Langley...
Pilot Pleads Guilty to Ecstasy Smuggling Charges
Former Flight Options pilot Franklin Rodriguez, 36, pleaded guilty last week in federal court to charges that while in the Air National Guard he and loadmaster John Fong, 37, smuggled into the U.S. some 300,000 Ecstasy pills–worth an estimated...
Necessary:
Ground coordination of surface vehicles/aircraft.
Also comes in handy when there are inbond IFR's and you are unable to get a release until cancellation or verification of the preceding IFR. If the inbound IFR aircraft is monitoring the CTAF/UNI, and they hear your "hint" that...
ASE catalyst
BTW, everything discussed here is being reviewed as a direct result of the ASE GIII crash. Approach categories, a/s or g/s, protected radii, high desity alt effect on turning radii, etc... Specifically, they are focusing on airports surrounded by high terrain and the ambiguous...
Other factors to consider:
AIM 5-4-20, b, 1, (Circle)
1. Circling approach protected areas are defined by the tangential connection of arcs drawn from each runway end. The arc radii distance differs by aircraft approach category. Because of obstacles near the airport, a portion of the...
Example: In a G450, (normally a CAT D bird), for example there is a Gulfstream ASC, (Additional Source of Cash), that allows you to dispatch as a CAT C aircraft. Just flip the placard over before you go.
There are several factors to consider; Make sure the release paperwork reflects CAT C...
Just imagine a DO with a sociopathic personality in the early stages of senility... voila! Or so I've been told by unfortunate victims of the Yum curse.
Name some possible reasons for this phenomenon and you will probably not be far from the truth.
Let's just say that following your instincts is usually the best course of action...
Factual Reports
If you are interested in reading some factual evidence of this accident; I suggest reading the NTSB's Pinnacle 3701 preliminary report documents:
"Human Performance Investigator's Factual Report" dated May 6th 2005 and, the "Group Chairman's Factual Report" dated January...
Open mike
From a tower chief buddy of mine who worked at this ARTCC.
ARTCC male controller, (trainee), and female supervisor, discussing how to properly plug-in to a station on inadvertent open mike:
Female voice: "pull it out... you've got it in the wrong..."
Male voice: "no its...
Nightfall
DeMille theorized that a kinetic missile, (which would leave no explosive evidence), fired from a surface vessel brought down the aircraft. His research also stated that another aircraft, (an El Al flight), just a few minutes behind the TWA flight and was the intended target. Although...
AWST VLJ article
As with most new business ventures, there are many dimensions to consider. Of the many articles on VLJ's I've read, this one is pretty good.
https://www.linearair.com/07-25-05%20Aviation%20Week.pdf
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