UPS A300 down at Birmingham AL

zmiller4 said:
For how many days though? Everywhere I have experience with has only been required to keep a certain number of days in the log, and with the frequency of routine inspections you'd almost never see more than a week. If something broke repeatedly and frequently, you'd definitely know from the can, but for the long-term history you'd have to trust mx control and your own memory/history with the aircraft.
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Normally we've also got the previous book hanging out up front. It's not a given, but I'd say it's usually there.
 
zmiller4 said:
For how many days though? Everywhere I have experience with has only been required to keep a certain number of days in the log, and with the frequency of routine inspections you'd almost never see more than a week. If something broke repeatedly and frequently, you'd definitely know from the can, but for the long-term history you'd have to trust mx control and your own memory/history with the aircraft.
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Varies with where you go, in my experience. In the AF, open writeups were there to see. But closed writeups were often cleared out of the book by maintenance, so I could never really see any trends with the aircraft unless, as you mention, I somehow knew that tail number personally.

Where I am now, open or recurring inspections/writeups are there dating back for as long as they're open/valid. And closed writeups go back about 60 days on average, allowing a good "look" at the aircraft.
 
jtrain609 said:
Normally we've also got the previous book hanging out up front. It's not a given, but I'd say it's usually there.
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You're right, I forgot about that--it was normally there. I'm pretty sure only something like the previous five days was required by regs though.
 
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Hopefully they can still get some data from that thing. It looks pretty charred.
 
I'm surprised that the box isn't in better condition. I know it was in the tail burning for most of the day. I saw a show a long time ago that showed the type of tests that those black boxes go through, for the most part indestructible. Must have been a pretty intense fire.
 
undflyboy06 said:
I'm surprised that the box isn't in better condition. I know it was in the tail burning for most of the day. I saw a show a long time ago that showed the type of tests that those black boxes go through, for the most part indestructible. Must have been a pretty intense fire.
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Most of that tail section looks like it was completely incinerated. Im surprised they got that much out of it.
 
After seeing that they got boxes out of the aircraft that went down in Bagram, I believe those things (or, at least the data contained within the hardened cylinder) are nearly indestructible.
 
There's been a lot of construction on runway 6/24 for a few weeks now. NOTAMs show Runway 24 GP, ALS, DME and PAPI out of service since August 2nd. There's a localizer and RNAV approach to 18. Possible factor?
 
SteveC said:
I thought it was only n/a if the VGSI is OTS? On my phone and don't have the chart handy, but I thought that's what I saw.
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You are correct. I saw NA on the minimums and didn't glance at the restrictions block. That's what I get for not having to read a chart in too many years.
 
SteveC said:
I thought it was only n/a if the VGSI is OTS? On my phone and don't have the chart handy, but I thought that's what I saw.
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I'm kinda confused on this. The Jepp plate makes it look like it's N/A.
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Government plate is a little clearer:
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