Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Of course you do: you know you should LOL every time you pass by one while it's motoring its engines for a minute each before startup.
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Of course you do: you know you should LOL every time you pass by one while it's motoring its engines for a minute each before startup.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
It’s crazy, I had SV flying a Cherokee in Juneau 12 years ago... like, WTF Boeing, not only does your latest techno-marvel envelope protection randomly dive the airplane into the dirt... but you can't do 1990s graphics on cockpit display for SA?
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
ENG MODE SEL … IGN
WAIT … FOR ENGINE PARAMETERS TO DISPLAY
DUAL COOLING pb-sw … ON
TEARS OF RJ PILOTS AT NEARLY-EQUIVALENT* FUEL FLOWS … CONSUME
* don’t @ me about the actual fuel flows; the Neo is a wonderfully efficient jet hauling a bunch of butts in seats.
Once I think?
I watched some dude on a line check start simultaneously repeatedly pressing the DISC switch and the MASTER WARNING light.
”That really doesn’t do anything and is poor technique as you never reset the MASTER WARNING without announcing… something…”
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Things pressing the DISC button does...
-turn off autopilot
-override other side stick
-lock out other side stick (40 seconds)
-re engage a locked out side stick
In the sim, doing a side stick lock out demo. Captain's side failed full forward. Finish the demo and then set the FO (who is still flying) up for an ils. At 200 feet he repeatedly clicks his DISC when the runway comes into sight. First click turns off the autopilot. Second click re-engages the Captain's side stick which is full forward. Plane nose dives. Sim red screens. Confusion ensues.
Edit: since @jtrain609 chimed in, I'm thinking this was a BlueJuice thing.
-turn off autopilot
-override other side stick
-lock out other side stick (40 seconds)
-re engage a locked out side stick
In the sim, doing a side stick lock out demo. Captain's side failed full forward. Finish the demo and then set the FO (who is still flying) up for an ils. At 200 feet he repeatedly clicks his DISC when the runway comes into sight. First click turns off the autopilot. Second click re-engages the Captain's side stick which is full forward. Plane nose dives. Sim red screens. Confusion ensues.
Edit: since @jtrain609 chimed in, I'm thinking this was a BlueJuice thing.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Wait til you see the guy clicking off the AP and simultaneously pressing EMER Cancel. Grrrrrrrr
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Dont recall, but don’t you have to press AND hold for those things to happen? Pressing twice or three times quickly shouldn’t do a priority takeover and lock or regain the control from other side right? Like hold for a couple seconds and get “priority right/left” and that would override and lockout other stick.
Been over a year since I was on the Bus and the nuance has been flushed by now…
Comair 100ER
Well-Known Member
L-16B
Well-Known Member
That just means they are America West guys
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
More than once is a Stupid Embraer Habit, because at Beaglevoy (World's Greatest Aviators®) it was CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK to make sure stuff actually disconnected.
Just gets done dual cooling and goes to start the second engine.
“COOLING”
“$&@!$/! what were you doing for the last 3 minutes?!?”
If you click it the second time on the last “T” you only get one “autopilot” aural.
And that’s probably the most useless piece of information I’ve retained.
Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Wait, what's the correct method for disconnecting the AP in this situation? Do an involuntary disconnect or land with a master warning instead?
CoffeeIcePapers
Well-Hung Member
Use spoilers often and don’t get high. You’ll actually learn the airplane your first 100 hours on the line.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
I'm digging back a year now, but I'm pretty sure the master warning stops after three chimes on the 32X. The 330 just chirps once and then shuts up.
charlie1017
Well-Known Member
So here's a question given all the 5G buzz... Can an Airbus 320/330 series be flown normally (and by that I mean transitioning to/from Normal Law for takeoff/landing) without *any* radar altimeter inputs?
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
No. You won't get FLARE mode, and a few other things. We had a 321 NEO smack its tail on landing due to an OEB related to RAs not working after a long descent over water.