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Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum Today, 11:19 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 121
Posted By 3WE
How about that, on exceedingly rare occasions,...

How about that, on exceedingly rare occasions, crap happens.

Rudders go left when they should go right.

The roof tears off.

A random wind blows a plane into the ground.

Engines shut...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum Today, 01:30 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 229
Posted By 3WE
Concur and, it would appear there was...

Concur

and, it would appear there was minimal wind.

I note the use of carburetor heat and perhaps 40 degrees of flaps.
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum Yesterday, 11:30 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
No one wants to play. You see, the...

No one wants to play.

You see, the video-game philosophy of Air Bus FBW does all of the calculations for airspeed lost when turning downwind for you and all you do is lay in a turn and pull the...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-17-2013, 10:33 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 460
Posted By 3WE
Juvenile responses. If conditions are...

Juvenile responses.

If conditions are right, you can see the smokin' hot hostie as she goes up the spiral staircase long before the autopilot monitors will see her.
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-16-2013, 12:32 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
@#%@~! Ok, the wind is in fact energizing...

@#%@~!

Ok, the wind is in fact energizing the plane during the tail wind and "denergising the plane" during the head wind.

That energy is real because if you crash head on into a big nail...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-15-2013, 10:24 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
Please explain the details of how you are flying...

Please explain the details of how you are flying in the crosswind?

Are you really going 100 knots true airspeed pointed 90 degrees off the wind direction?

If that's the case, you gotta do...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-15-2013, 08:28 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
No, it's pretty much the aircraft attitude that...

No, it's pretty much the aircraft attitude that has me wondering.
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-14-2013, 07:52 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
Phooey- either no one knows any better or no one...

Phooey- either no one knows any better or no one wants to play.

:-(

You do not loose momentum and/or airspeed by turning into a tail wind.

Well, you do technically loose a little energy...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-13-2013, 12:53 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
Just don't turn too fast from a headwind or cross...

Just don't turn too fast from a headwind or cross wind to a tail wind, the loss of momentum can lead to a stall!
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-12-2013, 11:50 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
I want to restate what's hard to put into...

I want to restate what's hard to put into words...I got the feeling this approach was steeper than 3 degrees- based soley on the nose-down attitude (that may or may not be a correct assumptoin)
...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 06-12-2013, 01:32 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,272
Posted By 3WE
Cool find- and it does seem a bit more nose down...

Cool find- and it does seem a bit more nose down than normal.

I'm going to stick my parlour talking ass hat neck out and say that, by some definitions, it was a too high, too fast, 'unstabilized'...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-06-2013, 11:47 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
Yes, Gabriel- that would appear to meet the...

Yes, Gabriel- that would appear to meet the concept.

Nothing reasonable could have been done to prevent it.

And the explanation of what happened...there really isn't a good one.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-04-2013, 09:33 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
Dude- read the thread- and maybe more slowly. ...

Dude- read the thread- and maybe more slowly.

It's a CONCEPT.

I doubt that THE TERM would be used in an accident report (posted above).

However, the insurance industry does use the...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-04-2013, 11:46 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
You're missing the point. This "act of God" is...

You're missing the point. This "act of God" is more the situation where there is no explanation and/or nothing that could have been done.

If it were a tornado, 1) you know what happened and 2)...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-04-2013, 01:51 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
Close but that's not it. 1) A very big...

Close but that's not it.

1) A very big deal was made that the plane was capable of flying out of the downdraft. While a lot of simulated reruns resulted in crashes, pilots who truly followed...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-02-2013, 07:22 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
PO Airbus or PO Boeing? :uhoh:

PO Airbus or PO Boeing? :uhoh:
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-02-2013, 07:20 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
Still racking my brain over this...I'm thinking...

Still racking my brain over this...I'm thinking the crash might have been a wind shear event- A wind shear where the pilots did just about everything right, and the weather data wasn't showing...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 06-02-2013, 04:06 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,510
Posted By 3WE
Some time ago, there was a plane crash that was...

Some time ago, there was a plane crash that was essentially deemed an act of God. That wording was not used, but in the crash analyis did not really have a cause that someone did something wrong.
...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-30-2013, 01:08 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 932
Posted By 3WE
J-31 Icing

I forgot a particular J-31 memory.

No autopilot- BFD

No flight director- BFD

No cockpit door- BFD

No yaw damper- noticable.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-29-2013, 01:35 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 932
Posted By 3WE
Snyder: I've seen ice on an ATR and a Saab...

Snyder:

I've seen ice on an ATR and a Saab (both light rime icing).

And I THINK I heard the props of a J-31 sling it onto the side of the fuselage.

It's amazing how big-iron turbojets...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-27-2013, 10:26 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 932
Posted By 3WE
How far back to the deicing boots go on other...

How far back to the deicing boots go on other aircraft?

While there were some quirks with ATR's in severe icing, their deicing boots are not radically different from those on other planes.
...
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 05-26-2013, 11:20 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,841
Posted By 3WE
I guess as long as you get them up before you...

I guess as long as you get them up before you level off and speed up to cruise they won't be causing too much drag.
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 05-23-2013, 07:06 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 860
Posted By 3WE
Is there some rule against using English?

Is there some rule against using English?
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-19-2013, 05:50 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,530
Posted By 3WE
Dash Eight.

Dash Eight.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-19-2013, 12:29 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,858
Posted By 3WE
Still... one should think twice before...

Still...

one should think twice before getting on an Air Bus.

or a regional piloted by puppy mill graduates.

:twisted:
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-16-2013, 12:01 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,858
Posted By 3WE
...wrong again ;-) There's a 100% chance that...

...wrong again ;-) There's a 100% chance that what happens will happen, and a 0% chance that what won't happen will happen....Nothin' 50:50 about it...it's 1 or 0
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-16-2013, 01:17 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,858
Posted By 3WE
You are correct, but let the poor gal have her...

You are correct, but let the poor gal have her peace.

It's so easy to belive that since it DID happen to you in the past, the chance of it happening to you in the future is emperically REDUCED.
...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-14-2013, 11:43 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,970
Posted By 3WE
It's become clear to me that the 'averge' pilot...

It's become clear to me that the 'averge' pilot is extremely aware of all of this, and that they receive excellent recurrent training.

Now are there some tweaks such as:

-Addressing the few...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-13-2013, 10:57 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,970
Posted By 3WE
As long as we're discussing all of this, another...

As long as we're discussing all of this, another angle that is a little scary is that long-haul pilots often wind up making only a couple of landings each month.

...to heck with the ability to...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-10-2013, 09:25 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 14,672
Posted By 3WE
So, it might be interesting to see what's left of...

So, it might be interesting to see what's left of an armored tank (sorry to say that).

...and you could SPECULATE if it's somewhere other than where it should be with respect to the rest of the...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-10-2013, 11:54 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 14,672
Posted By 3WE
I'm thinking that a pic might be not quite...

I'm thinking that a pic might be not quite adequate for this.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-07-2013, 05:26 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,970
Posted By 3WE
Probably just parlour talk.

Probably just parlour talk.
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum 05-07-2013, 12:26 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,841
Posted By 3WE
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That was




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Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-06-2013, 09:56 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,039
Posted By 3WE
@#%@#~! You think I don't know that? ...

@#%@#~!

You think I don't know that?

Remember AOA is not neccesarily equal to attitude either, and photography distorts distances.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-06-2013, 09:50 PM
Replies: 2,303
Views: 214,718
Posted By 3WE
Conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-05-2013, 07:52 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,039
Posted By 3WE
I wish the plane did not go out of view. While I...

I wish the plane did not go out of view. While I don't need to see the impact, did he seem to misjudge the pull up, or stall from the extra g forces or something break or some combination? Is it my...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-04-2013, 04:56 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,223
Posted By 3WE
I was once royally flamed by some professionals...

I was once royally flamed by some professionals for making a similar statement.

I'm not exactly sure what the issue was, but possibly that there are limits of TCAS to track and 'reconcile'...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-04-2013, 04:52 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,970
Posted By 3WE
...so harsh. Remember, this is an Airbus. ...

...so harsh.

Remember, this is an Airbus. It does better without pilots. If the pitot tubes iced up, maybe the hostie would be afraid to grab the joystick at all, let alone pull it full back...
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-04-2013, 01:23 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 14,672
Posted By 3WE
...and maybe the previous flight was a "more...

...and maybe the previous flight was a "more normal" takeoff instead of a "climb like hell to avoid missles" takeoff.
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum 05-03-2013, 07:48 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,223
Posted By 3WE
Too bad when a valid post gets no replies. ...

Too bad when a valid post gets no replies.

Then again, what do you say- unfortuntely, this stuff happens in the light aircraft world.

On a recent airplane ride, in a 172, we came within 1/2...
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