United Nosewheel goes *pow*

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bp said:
next cq finna be the introduction of the DEROTATION BRIEFING
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I sent an email in to training leadership talking about how we were having tail strike issues at Kalitta. Kalitta then introduced a “Pitch 5” callout and it cutdown tail-strikes to zero. Basically during landing, the PM sees that Pitch is 5 degrees, they call it, and you as PF know that’s all you got for Pitch on landing. It was simple and effective.

The email went over like a fart in an elevator or at least that was the impression I got in the response.

I’m checked out 30 seconds into my FO’s 7 min brief. If Huggies was in charge, we would brief threats and that’s it. Briefs are starting to become like NOTAMS, you’re really not getting anything out of them, but they’re there on the FDR (FP) for the lawyers.
 
Was coming back from SJU a little after this. We had to hold just South of the airport and I thought it was because of the front that came through. Winds were 310/36G49. I guess that’s why the whole west side of the airport was closed. The takeoff line for 35L was 48 planes deep. Ground was telling everyone taxing out it would be a minimum of 1 hour for departure.
 
You know, I’m sure glad people don’t have a great place to spot stationary 20R at SNA. I would have made the internets this year a few times. Granted I kept all my nose wheel tires.

Yes I know we are only 19 days into the year, what’s your point? 🙂
 
jhugz said:
I sent an email in to training leadership talking about how we were having tail strike issues at Kalitta. Kalitta then introduced a “Pitch 5” callout and it cutdown tail-strikes to zero. Basically during landing, the PM sees that Pitch is 5 degrees, they call it, and you as PF know that’s all you got for Pitch on landing. It was simple and effective.

The email went over like a fart in an elevator or at least that was the impression I got in the response.

I’m checked out 30 seconds into my FO’s 7 min brief. If Huggies was in charge, we would brief threats and that’s it. Briefs are starting to become like NOTAMS, you’re really not getting anything out of them, but they’re there on the FDR (FP) for the lawyers.
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“This airplane, that runway. Questions?”

In all seriousness I hate to defend the NOTAM system but that is routinely something that still needs to be in there. “Those aren’t the mins, did you see the NOTAM?” Or stuff that we just don’t do that regularly, I’ve had sneaky ball notes show up that made us go “oh, actually we CAN’T shoot that approach” because it’s a situation we aren’t in too often. But overall, yeah. Sometimes I cringe when a guy briefs the window for 10 minutes when it’s just not necessary.
 
Kingairer said:
The NEO has some very different landing characteristics than the CEO.
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I never flew the long Neobus, as my old shop got the first one about the time that gestures wildly, but I also always thought that the 320 Neo's thrust response was slower and it was draggier, somehow, if that makes sense, on final.

I don't recall if there was ever any official acknowledgment from Toulouse about changed handling characteristics either.
 
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