landing a real airliner.

Doug Taylor said:
You land you stand!
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That's good, keeps everyone honest.

If I have a bad landing I tend to make sure I reset the arrow for the next leg before the door opens and the FA comes up to see who just shortned all the passengers by a few inches.
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haha
 
frog_flyer said:
on a flight from aspen to dfw on a 757..... flared about 10 feet off the ground, everyone knew something was up and was about to say oh ******E*R&#*&*F& when we slammed into the ground so hard. lights went off, couple oxy masks deployed. it was awesome. on the way out... cockpit door CLOSED AND the pilots COWERING IN THEIR FAILURE!
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Err... Sorry. I am going to have to call shannagins on this one. I don't think you are going to be seeing a 757 out of ASE. Also while I guess it is *possible* to bounce the rubber jungle out of the overhead... I'm thinking it would take a whole lot of a jolt to do that.
 
frog_flyer said:
on a flight from aspen to dfw on a 757..... flared about 10 feet off the ground, everyone knew something was up and was about to say oh ******E*R&#*&*F& when we slammed into the ground so hard. lights went off, couple oxy masks deployed. it was awesome. on the way out... cockpit door CLOSED AND the pilots COWERING IN THEIR FAILURE!
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On my worst landing I made an announcement that I was holding a contest for the best comment on deplaning. And that I expected it to be creative. Most people were smiling as they left. A few stopped as if they wanted to say something. But no nasty comments.
 
I hit the lever on the 1900D by accident one day, we had one pax from PBI to MCO

He knocked on the cockpit door and said "am I supposed to put this on?"

Shucks folks I was speechless :D
 
BobDDuck said:
Err... Sorry. I am going to have to call shannagins on this one. I don't think you are going to be seeing a 757 out of ASE. Also while I guess it is *possible* to bounce the rubber jungle out of the overhead... I'm thinking it would take a whole lot of a jolt to do that.
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Good call duckybob. you're correct. 'twas gunnison!
 
seagull said:
On a sub-note here, and not intending to offend anyone, but where did this term "airliners" come from? I know it is never used among pilots that fly large jet transports, at least not anytime that I've heard. It is such an odd term to me, I have never been able to get used to it. Sort of like calling an airplane a "bird", which somehow comes across odd to me as well, in this day and age, reminds me of a term they'd have an actor say in a Hollywood movie.

Maybe it's just me, and I have never bothered to comment on this issue before, in writing or in person, but it just occurred to me. Sort of like people using the word "tarmac" like it means something special that is aviation related.
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Well, it is in most dictionaries...."An airplane adapted for carrying passengers and operated by an airline." By that definition, I suppose you wouldn't use the term at Fedex or UPS...but would at AMR, UAL, etc. Maybe that's why it didn't occur to you to use the term. :)

Interestingly, even 'jetliner' is in the dictionary...a slightly more categorical definition..."A large passenger carrying jet airplane."

At least one manufacturer, Beechcraft, named its 1900 the "Airliner".

On a personal note...none of those terms really bother me as much as calling it a 'unit'.

When I first started listening to executives in the airline industry talk about 'unit costs' and 'number of units on hand' and 'the unit leasing terms'...it took me a while to figure out they were talking about airplanes!

Now that...I have a problem with.
 
seagull said:
Sort of like people using the word "tarmac" like it means something special that is aviation related.
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yea, i find this one funny. not to mention its completely wrong unless the ramp happens to be made of asphalt.
 
casey said:
yea, i find this one funny. not to mention its completely wrong unless the ramp happens to be made of asphalt.
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Kinda like Wick Airport in Scotland, it actually has a tarmacadam (sp?) surface.
 
AlexF said:
Kinda like Wick Airport in Scotland, it actually has a tarmacadam (sp?) surface.
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John Macadam, a British engineer, was the first to improve roads using his tar over crushed stone process in the mid 18th century. It's my understanding that the term 'tarmacadam' never lasted in the U.S., but lingered for a long time in England...if not still in use. It would be interesting to research how the term 'tarmac' got stuck at the airport...and did not fade like it's use in the language with roads.

Many U.S. economic historians credit Macadam for advancements in early interstate commerce due to his improved 'roads'.

Just set me up at the bar and call me Cliff Claven.
 
I love the beechcraft and built up many hours in the beechcraft( that is on microsoft flight sim 2002 :D)never knew it was an actual airliner , knew it was a business aircraft though like one behind a learjet.I would like to take a lesson in a beechcraft one day of my life to get to a feel of MEL airplane. but im still with cessnas so Igot a while to go wiht only 9 hrs total.
 
captainphil said:
I love the beechcraft and built up many hours in the beechcraft( that is on microsoft flight sim 2002 :D)
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So I can quiz you extensively about the "MAN TIES CLOSE" switch on the electrical panel and it's many uses? :)
 
captainphil said:
:confused: The who?
:D
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You know, the bus ties that you manually close when you start the engine? ;) Tell me, AC or DC?

(E-Money, no helping now!)
 
Well, chances are if they are closing when the engine is starting (read: gen coming on line) they are ac. But that would just be a WAG. Honest question about the 1900... I know it has been addressed before, but what the heck is that beeping noise that seems to be in time with the prop spin up?
 
Electrical interference "bleed over" from the ignitors during engine start.
 
That's it? Wow. I always thought it was something cool like a warning horn to tell the rampies to get out of the way. Or better yet a cadence for the gerbels to run to.
 
LOL all you have to do is pull the SPKR breakers and those go away.

I never could figure out much use for the man ties close switch, except to test if the HEDs (or CLs for the C model) were blown out.
 
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