Southwest tries to redecorate LGA tower

[mikecweb]

That looks like it involves math. No thanks.

No math required. Also no requirements or silly things like flaps 1 or 2

 

[Richman]

Meh. "Slow to 210 they say? Descend to 3,000? Fine. Slats extend."

Spoilers out.

Proceed to do an interpretive dance of a chrome plated anvil.

 

[ERfly]

That looks like it involves math. No thanks.

No math. The performance software tells you the flap setting for takeoff and you dial away. After takeoff, you dial it to 15 and that's it.

 

[form810]

That looks like it involves math. No thanks.

Using one's rudder (and commensurate aileron)... even all the way to the stops... to keep the three required lines aligned does NOT take math. It's much more like throwing a pitch or shooting a hoop. Act accordingly. Or don't. But don't ever get so insanely polywampus that the tower screams at you to go around (especially when they, apparently, are doing do for fear of being hit.)

 

[form810]

Depends. Did you grow up wanting to be a pilot? Or a glorified computer operator?

Yeah. Truth. I've actually heard this, er, stuff on comms. "Our [aircraft type] doesn't do well on runway 09." Oh, really??? Do tell why not?

 

[MikeD]

Run over-square

Raise the flaps in the flare

Cancel at the gate.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

No math. The performance software tells you the flap setting for takeoff and you dial away. After takeoff, you dial it to 15 and that's it.

Wait, you dial in flaps? Like, that’s an actual thing?

 

[ERfly]

Wait, you dial in flaps? Like, that’s an actual thing?

Those that don't understand Douglas, mock Douglas.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Those that don't understand Douglas, mock Douglas.

BLARE BLARE BLARE BLARE

Slats

BLARE BLARE BLARE BLARE

Flaps





BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR



Is someone gonna answer that?

 

[ERfly]

BLARE BLARE BLARE BLARE

Slats

BLARE BLARE BLARE BLARE

Flaps





BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR



Is someone gonna answer that?

If you're hearing the first 2 outside of a preflight, you're doing it wrong

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Sounds like #AlaskaProblems

The -200 had no speed tape and no problem with the flap setting.

But let’s talk about flap settings, why the hell does a modern jet have like 38 individual flap detents?! We’ve got Up(0)/1/2/3/Full(4) on the bus and it works pretty well. Well, technically 5 if you want to talk 1 and 1+F

1+F is for the ladies

 

[NovemberEcho]

Came within 67’ of the tower

FAA probing close call between Southwest flight, air traffic control tower

The FAA is looking into a Southwest flight that veered off course while on approach to land at New York's LaGuardia Airport and may have buzzed the air traffic control tower.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Baronman]

Came within 67’ of the tower

FAA probing close call between Southwest flight, air traffic control tower

The FAA is looking into a Southwest flight that veered off course while on approach to land at New York's LaGuardia Airport and may have buzzed the air traffic control tower.

www.yahoo.com

“With as little as.”

I don’t buy that they came within 67’. You don’t come within a wing length of a building, close enough to see their coffee mugs and then ask “why’d u make us go around??”

 

[CFI A&P]

Came within 67’ of the tower

FAA probing close call between Southwest flight, air traffic control tower

The FAA is looking into a Southwest flight that veered off course while on approach to land at New York's LaGuardia Airport and may have buzzed the air traffic control tower.

www.yahoo.com

Does anyone know what the correct flap setting is for a tower flyby in the Conestoga Wagon of the skies?

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Does anyone know what the correct flap setting is for a tower flyby in the Conestoga Wagon of the skies?

I can tell you it’s NOT flaps 2

 

[HJB]

United is going to get hammered in the news for this . Article seems pretty clickbaity. That 67 feet is based on the delta between the tower height and the lowest point of the ADSB track. No mention to how far laterally they were. Did they • up? Probably. Not really worth discussing until when/if we get some hard info from the feds.

 

[NovemberEcho]

“With as little as.”

I don’t buy that they came within 67’. You don’t come within a wing length of a building, close enough to see their coffee mugs and then ask “why’d u make us go around??”

I do know the tower controller told us the belly of the plane filled up the entire window and that he was pretty sure “if I was on the catwalk I could have reached out and touched it.” They were shook up.

 

[NovemberEcho]

United is going to get hammered in the news for this . Article seems pretty clickbaity. That 67 feet is based on the delta between the tower height and the lowest point of the ADSB track. No mention to how far laterally they were. Did they • up? Probably. Not really worth discussing until when/if we get some hard info from the feds.

I know your Reddit account now

 

[N826AW]

I know your Reddit account now

I thought to myself, I feel like I just read this.

 

[Inverted]

“With as little as.”

I don’t buy that they came within 67’. You don’t come within a wing length of a building, close enough to see their coffee mugs and then ask “why’d u make us go around??”

Well, the counter point to that is that those controllers see and hear a lot of stuff every day and I have NEVER heard a greater NYC area air traffic controller sound like that on the radio, ever.