Planes
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@taniwharugby said in Planes:
@Snowy my theory was that the wheels were so hot they got off onto the wet grass
Yeah. Not going to help much really but given some of his other choices that migh have been his thought process (assuming that he had one). 300+ deg c versing wet grass...
He obviously didn't get them up to 900 (would have been relatively light for landing) or they all would have gone flat when the plugs blew.
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Would that have been the last time he flew that plane? Isn't it pretty much, one strike and you're out for these types of control events?
Possibly. Depends on the airline and their policy. Some are quite racist and a local can get away with some "retraining" for an event like that, an expat gets told to go home. It's the decision making to continue the landing from that position that would also come under scrutiny. Certainly an invite for tea and bikkies with fleet management and a "please explain".
I would also hope that no one would be flying it until a full undercarriage inspection had been carried out.
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Yeah, a few thousand hours mountain flying in PNG helps too. Fucking cray airstrips and as for old unreliable planes - I had 3 complete engine failures (including the one fire) and 2 partial failures - in 3 years. Aerobatics experience is good for skills and mental confidence. It all helps when the shit hits the fan.
I saw quite few guys freeze up in airlines, and I basically became single pilot, and you are correct most of them were "cadets" who were inducted with zero hours and then taken through the "system".
I had to do a go around in KL due to a thunderstorm once, my F/O just shut down on the approach, had to configure the thing and do checklists myself, then go around when we hit windshear, enter a hold, do a couple of laps for 10 mins while I tried to get some response out of him and wait for conditions to change. Had him half back (just) by the time we touched down. I wasn't impressed but didn't really think that shouting, punching or abusing him would help much, but I felt like it.
Yeah, at least wait until the chocks are in.
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@Machpants
Yeah, a few thousand hours mountain flying in PNG helps too. Fucking cray airstrips and as for old unreliable planes - I had 3 complete engine failures (including the one fire) and 2 partial failures - in 3 years. Aerobatics experience is good for skills and mental confidence. It all helps when the shit hits the fan.It's not PNG until they're shooting at you.
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@antipodean said in Planes:
@Machpants
Yeah, a few thousand hours mountain flying in PNG helps too. Fucking cray airstrips and as for old unreliable planes - I had 3 complete engine failures (including the one fire) and 2 partial failures - in 3 years. Aerobatics experience is good for skills and mental confidence. It all helps when the shit hits the fan.It's not PNG until they're shooting at you.
They did that too - but only twice. Once on the ground (I got airborne very rapidly) and once in the air.
The one on the ground I had delivered some cops to the strip to settle a dispute between two groups (long story) and was caught in a crossfire between the 2 groups, who stopped shooting at each other, and decided to go at the cops, and therefore me. It was decidedly unfriendly.
The airborne one I was flying over a large and suspiciously bright green patch in the bush...
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Sometimes, when I get a bit cocky and think my life is interesting, or that I just achieved something of note, I like to come to the Planes forum to remind myself just how mundane my life really is.
Keep it that way.
Was going to have a look and find some photos of some of the insane strips that we used to go to, but found this instead:
No that isn't me, smart-arses.
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Sometimes, when I get a bit cocky and think my life is interesting, or that I just achieved something of note, I like to come to the Planes forum to remind myself just how mundane my life really is.
Keep it that way.
Was going to have a look and find some photos of some of the insane strips that we used to go to, but found this instead:
No that isn't me, smart-arses.
You know how sometimes you see a photo of someone for the first time and they look NOTHING like you'd expected?
This isn't one of those times.
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Sometimes, when I get a bit cocky and think my life is interesting, or that I just achieved something of note, I like to come to the Planes forum to remind myself just how mundane my life really is.
Keep it that way.
Was going to have a look and find some photos of some of the insane strips that we used to go to, but found this instead:
No that isn't me, smart-arses.
Hanging out with New Guinean cannibals, imagine my surprise.
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I've got some sad and tragic news...
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General Atomics Wants To Give Aerial Tankers Their Own Missile-Laden Loyal Wingmen Drones
The "Defender" concept is a potentially promising way to address the increasing vulnerability of Air Force tankers and other lumbering support planes.
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Looks like we will buy new Hercules aircraft instead of changing to another manufacturer. Good solid option
The Herc must be one of the best aircraft designs ever. I read somewhere the RAF wanted C130J's instead of the Airbus A400 to go with their C5 fleet - more bang (and aircraft) for the buck and a better fit. with the C5's.
The A400 has been a bit of an expensive disaster with one French Air Force officer allegedly calling it "2,000 software bugs flying in formation - when the engines work"
