Nope! It may accelerate, just like it did during the 1980’s while you and I were in flight school.
The shortage is coming (back)!
Ex-UAL pilot sues United for defamation
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Nope! It may accelerate, just like it did during the 1980’s while you and I were in flight school.
The shortage is coming (back)!
I hope. I know I’m on one’s sh—-list at the moment.
roundout
VNAV monitor
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
I’m in my “your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what you cheer for” era.
I…. I… I LOVE THIS!!
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
Do you miss me? Been 10 years
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Love me or sticking pins in your Autothrust Blue voodoo doll me, you're at least thinking of me - with all of the rent-free living, evidently, you'd think my rent would be lower.
Do you miss me? Been 10 years
“Request top of stack”
“Top of stack is 17,000. 17,500 is open”
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
“Request top of stack”
“Top of stack is 17,000. 17,500 is open”
guywhoflies
Y'NO WUT IM SAYIN
Nothing like holding over TFD for 20 minutes waiting your turn to shoot an approach into runway 05 at CGZ while another plane shoots an approach to 23 and then you both pull the GA version of a “knife edge pass” as you side step and wave to each other as you pass on either side of the runway. I was, and still am, shocked that there isn’t a midair at least once a year in the southeast practice area.“Request top of stack”
“Top of stack is 17,000. 17,500 is open”
Same same with the VOR 5 and RNAV 23 into Coolidge
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Judge ain’t havin it
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Federal Judge Throws Out United Pilot’s Lawsuit After Hard-Landing Incident | AirlineGeeks.com
Silva, who worked as a flight attendant at United before becoming a pilot, has not announced whether he plans to appeal the decision.
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Maurus
The Great Gazoo
I bet the dude was just hoping there would be a quick settlement to fund his next career. OopsJudge ain’t havin it
Federal Judge Throws Out United Pilot’s Lawsuit After Hard-Landing Incident | AirlineGeeks.com
Silva, who worked as a flight attendant at United before becoming a pilot, has not announced whether he plans to appeal the decision.
Lawman
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A couple years later, I brought a dirty old, oil and fuel dripping F/A-18C to the 2015 HIO airshow. The Monday morning after, at maybe 0700, with a nice cold overcast and drizzle, I was starting up to go back to Fallon NV. I got the right motor online, then looked down and noticed the APU had shut down (light was out). I thought "weird" and then started to crossbleed the left motor. Thats accomplished by pushing the other throttle up to 80%ish and cranking said motor. I just about had it online when some ramp dude came running over having a conniption, his hands flailing for me to stop. Turns out I was parked in front of a hangar that had some sort of canvas doors that were *unbeknownst to me* being blown apart by my tailpipe. I dutifully shut down to figure out WTF he was on about. Turns out, that was the last time the air start valve would work on that plane. I tried in vain for another 30-45 mins to get a motor to crank high enough to start, but both sides would Peter out at about 5% N1, well below what I needed to actually get them running. Anyway, I finally climbed down, and there was a whole crowd of kids from the ATP school up there who had gathered around to see me leave. I told them "stay in school, don't do drugs". Hopefully they listened. They are probably my captains now
Just rereading through this thread and gave myself PTSD…
So for helicopters, a cross bleed start is about the sketchiest thing we can do that’s not somehow an EP. Think about it, there is no way to decouple our engine power from our wing unless you’re doing a lock start which a lot aren’t capable of.
To get the driving motor to an Ng high enough you have to pull it gobs of power which just felt unstable as hell in a D model Apache, but in the E model you may actually hover at that setting single engine which isn’t legally allowed. So you pull right up to that point, which may hit 95 or be just a little shy and take your chances.
I was always annoyed when I was a young guy and would get paired up with some sketchy W4 that wanted to do it just because it was possible instead of just turning on the APU. Oh and it could at the time be done (and we did it to my amazement) in flight…. Because it’s only a caution in the book that says crossbleeding from Eng 1 to start 2 may result in a fuel valve cycle and starvation killing your good motor when you energize the starter. Refused to fly with that guy after that, luckily he had a long list of people happy to get a reason to stop letting him come around.
Lawman
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There’s a lot of good reasons that made culling the D model fleet a very attractive option to the rest of Army leadership.
1. We have no aviators at senior ranks as advocates
2. Boeing oversold E model foreign capacity and can’t meet production, so we have a lot of countries sitting waiting for their E models going hey wtf right now. I imagine the Ds will go to them in numbers, both to act as parts birds for people like Korea or to hold time for people like Poland/India until they get the second line running at Mesa.
3. We didn’t upgrade our aircraft fast enough (went about half the speed we wanted to go) in transitioning the Apache to the E model, and now parts for the D model and price per blade hour make it a problem. It currently costs about 3x in money to fly an older D model than the newest Es, and it’s more expensive than a Chinook.
A lot still has to be figured out. That’s all coming, but right now as far as the Army is concerned, all money to Dark Eagle because that makes us the relevant discussion point in IndoPacom being a non nuclear service. I think thats their play that keeps us from having our budget slashed so the Navy can funnel it towards saving things like Constellation because that looks more important for the big fight with China than manned aviation.
I’m laughing at sevoeral of the senior guys I know that spent the better part of a year on the FDU project to redesign all the aviation structure. Back to the drawing board boys, and my comments to a couple of them about air cavalry reconnaissance being something the ground commanders don’t actually want 6 months ago which they dismissed read like an “I told you so!”
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
I recently flew with an FO that’s a West Point/Army fixed wing guy (one of the very, very few I’ve met that were fixed wing)…the stories he told me about “leadership”, I can only imagine the ‘WTAF’ y’all feel
///AMG
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Yeah, they are cool helicopters in Lawman's case, but I've always envisioned it sort of like the old adage about UPS being "a truck company with airplanes"
Lawman
Well-Known Member
“Air litorral space” has been all but made heresy by Army leadership.
Army aviation participates in “the upper tier of the ground domain” in official doctrine. That should explain a lot of the attitude towards aviation by the rest of the Army.
Are they still making you guys camo up for combined arms rehearsals only to have to wash it off before you go fly?