I would add:
A strongly black and white thinker, with a sterile-bubble mentality, generally exhibiting a bias that pilots and fundamental airmanship are bad, acronyms are good, Airbus is Devine, and who has no concept of operating a moving vehicle (tricycles to A-380s), except for maybe his desk chair to and from his keyboard to save the aviation industry from itself…Correction: It’s doubtful his chair has wheels....
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I’m not sure I’ll agree that Airbus is “wild and frequent”, and that 40 degree flaps are not a problem, especially since engineers undid them on a range of x72x airplanes.
What bugs me more is what Airbus does to pilots- Evan starts spouting systems and modes and guy’s utter stuff like “But I’ve been pulling up the whole time, while neither him nor his partner can keep a mechanically sound plane in a fat, dumb and happy cruise.
Then again, we have pilots who can’t hand-land a 777 on a beautiful Sunday afternoon when low-time student pilots should be out shooting landings.
[Shoulder shrug emoji]
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Just to play Devils advocate are you prepared to say the 320+/- is worse than other aircraft?
737s where the rudder might reverse, or the trim starts cranking down…
DC-9s where the horizontal stabilizer cuts loose to enable inverted flight or the circuit breaker pops the spoilers, and rudder authority goes to hell during reverse thrust?
727s where 40 degrees of flaps can get you in trouble on the drag curve?
DC 10s who’s controls do crazy things depending on cargo latches, flying compressor blades, or engines that smack the upper wing surface.
L-1011s where you can insidiously disconnect the autopilot....
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When watching folks land airliners in normal weather, I’m generally impressed with the frequency and extent of the control movement while the view out the windscreen (or from 24A) is seems much calmer.
This is for sticks and steering wheels both.
For really bumpy days, I can imagine sticks and yokes getting very close to the stops and getting totally there during the worst winds.
Yes, ‘imagine’ is a key word....
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What airplanes are you talking about?
The airplane doesn’t matter. That being said there’s systems that go into different, gray, overlapping buckets:
1. That’s nasty and insidious and could really trick someone.
2. A potential trap but as long as you aren’t stupid…
3. What the phugoid are they thinking?
4. Oh shit, that SEEMS like a solid idea, but…
I had a buddy on a Value Jet DC-9 at Nashville when the guy pulled the cumulonimbus for the pressurization as they crossed the fence and caused the spoilers to pop.
The resulting landing was excellent and paperwork, including a final report, ensued.
When I read some of this Airbus stuff, it seems kind of weird. (Your aileron authority getting chopped in half…a system where you might learn to let go of the stick right after takeoff)
I don’t object to an nose-down trimmer either, but don’t tell the pilots, attach it to only one...
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Evan, who is not_a pilot, thinks all pilots are stupid and that Airbus is perfect.
Ok, I exaggerated a little.
I watched the movie, and thought it made some interesting points. Sure, there’s a counter argument that it’s easier to criticize than it is design airplanes, and the counter counter argument that companies will spin things to make themselves look good.
There was an interesting MCAS-like story of pilots not_being told that an unlevel landing would make it totally impossible to deploy the spoilers, but Evan has spoken, and that was the stupid cowboy monkey pilots’ fault....
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This is not directed at Bert, but the entire conversation. That damn that “plane” is always monkeying with pilots inputs… whoops, I need some extra flare…I’m sorry, Bert, additional elevator input is not available when in flare mode C-14blo100frrdalt on Wednesdays between 1400 and 2400Z. ...
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Bullcrap for practical purposes.
The max AOA is when they are on the ground, almost dragging the tail. As the plane climbs, the AOA reduces, UNLESS THE PILOT LETS THE PLANE NOSE UP MORE, or tailwinds change it. There isn’t too much room for much vertical wind that close to the ground and not in a thunderstorm.
I repeat, that is a pretty significant nose over- more than should be needed to maintain a healthy AOA.
PLUS, big nose overs can result in big sinks, resulting in an urge to pull up hard, resulting in….
It’s all great if you are ahead of the plane, but
if you over do it/PIO it…you wind up with outsiders pontificating on how you should fly your airplane....
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