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USAF KC-10 (Retired ‘24) Lt Col Instructor/Evaluator & Airline 737 Captain. Views my own; think critically, verify sources & keep your seatbelt fastened. No DMs V1, Rotate, CA, USA Joined April 2015-
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A not insignificant part of airline life is driving to work at 03:30 a couple days after doing the redeye schedule.
Air travel is a modern marvel we completely take for granted ‣ 45,000 daily flights in the US ‣ with only ~1% cancelled and ~0 accidents ‣ taking you about anywhere on the planet in <1 day
Romance comes in many forms.
So proud of my younger brother, who was technically “Frocked” today (promoted, but w/o the accompanying pay, in this case due to the shutdown). Making Colonel (O-6) in the USMC is a big deal. He worked his tail off for it & deserves it! I’ll never call him sir, but still.
*Some* airports can use a parallel taxiway for flight operations if the runway is damaged or unusable, but not many. Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, for example, is built this way. There’s nothing else for hundreds of miles, so it’s wise to have a back-up for the runway. The…
*Some* airports can use a parallel taxiway for flight operations if the runway is damaged or unusable, but not many. Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, for example, is built this way. There’s nothing else for hundreds of miles, so it’s wise to have a back-up for the runway. The…
So far, no adverse effects on Airlines from the government shutdown. ATC will continue working, but without pay. They will be back-payed when government resumes, but it still creates some stress.
I think “I don’t need an airplane, it makes no financial sense”. Then I go down memory lane to the time I had an airplane & it blows up that argument, purely on emotion. I should be better than that, but…I need an airplane again.
Girlfriend asked me a question, which gave me opportunity to use a classic military saying I think more should know: “Five minutes early is on time, on time is late and late is not acceptable” Younger me kinda understood & honored it. Older me appreciates how deep this goes.
The 737’s printer doesn’t have to be operational for dispatch, but it’s kind of painful to go without it. It’s located under the cabin interphone (which looks like a telephone). We occasionally have to reload the paper, which comes on spools. We’re *almost* to the point that we…
The 737’s printer doesn’t have to be operational for dispatch, but it’s kind of painful to go without it. It’s located under the cabin interphone (which looks like a telephone). We occasionally have to reload the paper, which comes on spools. We’re *almost* to the point that we…
“Politics is theater, where the actors escalate drama to distract you from the fact they have lit your seats on fire” – Me, 2025, Twitter, kind of intoxicated. Good night.
True. The Center of Gravity (CG) of an airplane is very important. You must load passengers & bags carefully…you can’t just throw them all wherever. The jet has a big safety margin, but screw this up enough & you can’t control it no matter how much you move the yoke.
Long overdue. It will take something like a decade, but better late than never.
Lufthansa is to cut 4,000 jobs, nearly four percent of the German airline giant's workforce, after profits slumped in the face of mounting headwinds. Hit by walkouts, aircraft delivery delays and rising costs, Lufthansa's earnings tumbled by a fifth in 2024 and profitability has…
For those who don’t know, the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) is a small turbine engine in the tail. It provides electrical & pneumatic power; it uses less fuel than the engines, so we run it on the ground instead of an engine. Also useable in an emergency in the air.
For those who don’t know, the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) is a small turbine engine in the tail. It provides electrical & pneumatic power; it uses less fuel than the engines, so we run it on the ground instead of an engine. Also useable in an emergency in the air.
True. Anytime there was a change to manuals, you got handed a stack of papers & had to go through each to manually replace the affected pages. You got new charts quarterly. Now it’s all automatic, and your position is overlaid on the charts as a “moving map” along w/ weather.
True. Anytime there was a change to manuals, you got handed a stack of papers & had to go through each to manually replace the affected pages. You got new charts quarterly. Now it’s all automatic, and your position is overlaid on the charts as a “moving map” along w/ weather.
Some do survive being a stowaway on an airplane…but the overwhelming majority do not. You get killed by the machine crushing / slicing you up (not much room in the wheel wells) or by the cold & lack of oxygen. Survivors are not exactly OK afterward & always get found.
Some do survive being a stowaway on an airplane…but the overwhelming majority do not. You get killed by the machine crushing / slicing you up (not much room in the wheel wells) or by the cold & lack of oxygen. Survivors are not exactly OK afterward & always get found.
Ever wondered what happens when planes are too old to fly? It’s not just about parking them in a desert... retired aircraft take on all kinds of second lives
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