Scudrunners

Back on topic ....

There will be NO NEW CAUSES of aviation accidents in 2018.

They will all be replays of previous accidents that the pilots
were uninterested in.

This is something that puzzles me.  People don't care if they
crash or not, so why are they upset when it happens?

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=9265.msg25459#msg25459 date=1540867236]

Hm.  Maybe there's a reason airline pilots don't like airshow
pilots.  Let me think about that.

[quote]FML[/quote]

Now, now.  Look at your bank account.  It will cheer you up.

[url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/na ... e34298731/]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/na ... e34298731/[/url]

Buncha pervs in Ottawa, I tell ya.

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This airline pilot outflies the Colonel's pink pansy ass in his sleep. Works for Fedex. As for the world's greatest aerobatic pilot, I wonder if he ever said,



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"I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are flying with the world's best pilot. The bad news is, I just ran out of gas"

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/S ... 319-1.html

True.  Skip is the man.

Not sure you'd call a freight dog an "airline pilot", but ok.

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=9265.msg25494#msg25494 date=1541133045]
True.  Skip is the man.

Not sure you'd call a freight dog an "airline pilot", but ok.

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Seen your videos. Nice. Are you ever going to do his kind of flying?

Not sure I'd want to take the pay cut to fly for Fedex, thanks.

[quote]the flight data recorder of the Boeing Max 8 that crashed in Indonesia last week, and
investigators say it shows the airplane had indicated [b]inaccurate airspeed readings[/b][/quote]

[quote]There will be NO NEW CAUSES of aviation accidents in 2018.[/quote]

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Franc ... indicators]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Franc ... indicators[/url]

[size=12pt][b]ATTITUDE + POWER = PERFORMANCE[/b][/size]

TC loves to shit on me for saying this, but as a [b]BAD PERSON[/b] I am
convinced that [u]you should learn to fly a broken airplane[/u].

I know that I am old-fashioned, but an indication error is not a good enough
reason to kill everyone on board.

TC has gone to great efforts to ensure that I don't instruct any more,
and I'm cool with that.

But, when I did instruct, one of my favorite exercises with a student was
to cover up the entire dash of the aircraft with paper, and go flying.  The
student could use the Big Attitude Indicator outside - it's called the horizon -
and learn that

[size=12pt][b]ATTITUDE + POWER = PERFORMANCE[/b][/size]

and you don't actually need all those stupid fucking toys to fly an airplane.

I've mentioned before that I gave a checkout to a new owner of an RV-7A
with all sorts of fancy screens and no steam gauges.  Owner told me he
expected to die if they failed.  I laughed, pulled the breakers for the panels
and we went flying with no instrumentation.

I know TC doesn't want me to teach survival skills  to PPL's, and that's fine. 

But I really wish someone would teach them to new ATP's.

The FAA has issued an Emergency AD
[url=http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guida ... rgency.pdf]http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guida ... rgency.pdf[/url]
That gives an idea what most likely happened on this aircraft.
The problem with a trimmable stabiliser is that the elevator authority is tiny in comparison - just look at the surface area of both on any large jet.
You won't be able to overcome a stabiliser trimmed fully nose down by pulling back on the controls. That can be seen in the parabolic trajectory of the FlyDubai crash in Rostov.
When you have an automatic trim system working against manually set trim you have to disable the system. Not 100% sure but it looks there are 2 cutout switches on the right side of the pedestal just behind the thrust levers.
Still shouldn't lead to the loss of an aircraft. Crew actions (or lack of) will make for sobering reading.