AHRS Failure
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OldTownPilot
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As far as the FCO deal, Dad flew with the CA that did it. The auto pilot would not engage after take off, so it was "dispached with a good A/P". Something else endend up being broken that would not allow it to engage. He said they would have had to fly to Ireland or so to be under landing weight, then what? Try to get it fixed there...? The fuel would have been close to make it back at 280 so they flew the crossing, and checked the fuel as they went. Careful co-ordinaton with dispatch was the key to getting it done. Each pilot took 2 shorter breaks than 1 long break, and he said it was easier than they expected.
Heck BGR-PWM is long enough (100+mi) with non A/P in a 150, say nothing of 10 or so hours going across the big drink.
Heck BGR-PWM is long enough (100+mi) with non A/P in a 150, say nothing of 10 or so hours going across the big drink.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Green Needles Suck! I really need to back tshirt for that. Honestly, I would much rather have the autopilot out then loose the FMS. We mostly fly shorter legs (<2 hours) so it wouldn't be that bad. In cruise it is possible to get the aircraft trimmed out pretty well so it doesn't require to many control inputs. The autopilot (on the CRJ anyways) doesn't touch the trim so very often in cruise it is out of trim and the yoke is always moving.
No autopilot EWR-DCA is pretty busy I would bet. I just can believe you got up to 230 on that flight. PHL-LGA is similar distance and we stay at 9000 the whole way.
No autopilot EWR-DCA is pretty busy I would bet. I just can believe you got up to 230 on that flight. PHL-LGA is similar distance and we stay at 9000 the whole way.
GaTechKid
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Ya'll are pansies. I get a consistent 2 dot swing going between PIT-JHW cuz the VORs around here are weak. The ILS glideslope into JHW also bounces around so you really have to help the autopilot average the inputs out if you want to use it. It makes approaches into snow squalls interesting.
FlyChicaga
Vintage Restoration
Pilots become so reliant on the autopilot and FMS. I am SOOOOOO happy that my first plane had no FMS. It had an autopilot, but being a low-time pilot I handflew more often than not. None of this "direct INTRS" intersection stuff, it was all radials, DME, etc. Heck, it frightens me sometimes to see how bad some pilots are at flying with an autopilot. I wanted to be a pilot to fly planes, not pop on the autopilot and watch the thing do it! It's fun!!
PhilosopherPilot
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BobDDuck said:
I would never do any reading, Sudoku, or apparently, talking in flight. I had a captain today that said, (and I'm not joking) "I don't socialize at work. I'm here to work, not chitchat." So how happy was I that I wasn't on the three day with him! It was a quiet flight home...
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PhilosopherPilot
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BobDDuck said:
Oh, I WAS joking about the reading and sudoku...just not joking about the captain.
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PhilosopherPilot
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Doug Taylor said:Did you tell him to kindly wake you up if anything safety-related occurred?
No, but I did point out to him that we couldn't pushback until we had started the engine using the huffer...(APU deferred) It was pretty funny actually. "Ramp, ACY 123 pushback DAWGS2..." "ACY 123 Push straight back mains on the line" "Okay tug, she said straight back, mains on the line"
Then me "Uh...don't we need to start up first?"
LOL I think that was the beginning of a bad day for us.
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