New Type in Delta Colors
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SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
That thing is freakin long...I know when I commute on Delta's -200's it seems like it takes FOREVER to get off if you're row 35 or higher. I can't imagine how long this thing takes...esp when you have a family traveling with 5 kids, 2 strollers and none of them want to stay with the parents...
Nick
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Same climb thrust as the -200 in order to get some kind of engine warranty.
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
I hear that Delta's going to put them on PDX routes sometime this summer (according to the gate agents here)...any word from DL about 76's coming back to Portland (other than the ER's going to NRT and AMS)?
Seggy
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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The NWA guys always told me that they were scared less every time they rotated, because there's apparently a very good chance of tail strike if you don't do it just right.
anic:Velocipede
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There's a chance of striking a 737-800 and -900 tail as well. Watch a -900 rotate.
SeanD
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The NWA guys always told me that they were scared less every time they rotated, because there's apparently a very good chance of tail strike if you don't do it just right.
:yeahthat: Ive heard the 757 guys hate flying the 300.
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
Same in the Q4...we can't go past 6 deg on landing...if we get to 5 deg, it's a call by the PM...if you get to 6 deg, you have to call correcting and correct with power only.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Would it still be a dog, if Boeing increased the MTOW on the 300 to 270,000 lbs. vs 255,000 lbs. on the 200 series?
The NWA guys always told me that they were scared less every time they rotated, because there's apparently a very good chance of tail strike if you don't do it just right.
I don't know about takeoff, but on landing the 300 series uses the three outboard spoilers on each wing. They will automatically be held down if the angle of attack exceeds 6 degrees.
The resulting action causes a lift changing will force the nose down, thus helping the plane avoid a tail strike!
bustinminimums
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Nice ship. The 75's look good in the new delta colors.
Nick
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The NWA guys always told me that they were scared less every time they rotated, because there's apparently a very good chance of tail strike if you don't do it just right.
I am not sure about other companies but at Northwest they get a printout after takeoff and landing on the A-320 series and the B-757 that tells them the rate of rotation, speed at liftoff/touchdown, max pitch at liftoff/touchdown.
They have had numerous tailstrikes on landing in the -300.
I was in the cockpit jumpseat on a 757-300 from MSP to SEA one night a few years ago. The captain mentioned in the departure brief to the first officer that "and as we're in a -300 tonight as always I'm going to take it easy on rotation so we don't bump it on the way out."
We used 12L and he basically flew the thing on the ground down the entire runway until the end, rotating ever so slowly all the last few thousand feet. We crossed the threshold at no more than 30 feet.
The printout appeared automatically a few minutes later. He picked it up and chuckled, passing it to the first officer and saying "maybe I went a little overboard."
The first officer laughed and then handed it back to me. I still have that printout in the room I am typing from right now and I Just read it again:
KCAS AT ROTATION: 180
FlyChicaga
Vintage Restoration
It blows my mind that ATA was able to fly the 300s full out of MDW in the summer without many tailstrikes. I think I only heard of two times someone overrotated, and that was in the first few months of service.
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