Hate to even type the word, but U****d Airlines!! ;-)
I had the same experience flying into Hong Kong, thought she was going to get her line wrapped round the wing!Were you flying prior to Hong Kong airport relocation? I vividly recall sat looking out the window watching a women hang out washing on a tower block balcony while thinking I’m actually part of 400 tons of an inflight 747.
What do you reckon is the most demanding airport to land / take off? Isn’t Vegas quite tricky?
Ha ha good man, I hope you turn up for work wearing a full city kit plus shinpads and boots :)Hate to even type the word, but U****d Airlines!! ;-)
1) there’s a whole world you’re missing out on out thereand this is why i will never ever ever fly,people keep telling me flying is safe yet they keep going down!!,my 24 yo daughter and 4 yo grandaughter flew for the 1st time to spain saturday,and i can't settle till i know they are back safe...
and this is why i will never ever ever fly,people keep telling me flying is safe yet they keep going down!!,my 24 yo daughter and 4 yo grandaughter flew for the 1st time to spain saturday,and i can't settle till i know they are back safe...
We accomplish that in Initial Certification Type Training for the aircraft, but from there, it depends on when it pops back into the FAA hopper for review. Most of our recurrent (every 9 months at United) training is based on doing all the different instrument approaches to minimum weather conditions, maximum crosswind approach and landing in clear skies (so you can see the level of side slip on approach), a rejected takeoff in minimum weather conditions, engine failure on takeoff, return to single engine landing, to a go around single engine, to a crosswind visual approach single engine. Then, we do the training that the FAA mandates every year. This year, it is Upset Training (Stalls and wake turbulence, e.g. from an A380 on approach or mountain wave, etc...).Do they still get you to have a crack at landing that one with no hydraulics in the simulator? I know that was de rigeur for a while as notoriously difficult to get the thing down. Obviously when it's for real it does rather concentrate the mind...
It flies like a Porsche! It climbs out at a higher pitch attitude than any other commercial plane I’ve flown. I LOVED flying that plane!That happened to me once in a 757. The power that machine had was incredible. It felt like it still had stacks left in the tank as well!
It flies like a Porsche! It climbs out at a higher pitch attitude than any other commercial plane I’ve flown. I LOVED flying that plane!
Never flew to the old one, only the new one, sorry.Were you flying prior to Hong Kong airport relocation? I vividly recall sat looking out the window watching a women hang out washing on a tower block balcony while thinking I’m actually part of 400 tons of an inflight 747.
What do you reckon is the most demanding airport to land / take off? Isn’t Vegas quite tricky?
Full kit wanker? Nah, but everyone knows I’m a City fan at work, from the MAN CITY license plate in the parking lot, to the imaginary spit on the ground when they say Manchester United! ;-)Ha ha good man, I hope you turn up for work wearing a full city kit plus shinpads and boots :)
Never flew to the old one, only the new one, sorry.
Domestically in the US, the hardest approaches are the Expressway Visual 31 at LaGuardia, NYC and the River Visual 19 in Washington National. One follows a highway before a sharp turn to a short runway with water on both ends, the other follows a river (to avoid all the restricted and prohibited airspace around the White House, Congress, Pentagon) into DC, also with an even shorter runway with water on both ends. Some people so find San Diego quite hard because you are below the level of the high rises to your left and you missed the high rise parking garage at the end of the runway by only 100-200 feet on short final, but the approach is straightforward.
Yes!@ChicagoBlue have you ever done the simulation of the landing in the Hudson?
Edit.... sorry I've worded it wrong.
Have you done the simulation of when sully lost both engines and ending up putting it in the Hudson?
Never flew to the old one, only the new one, sorry.
Domestically in the US, the hardest approaches are the Expressway Visual 31 at LaGuardia, NYC and the River Visual 19 in Washington National. One follows a highway before a sharp turn to a short runway with water on both ends, the other follows a river (to avoid all the restricted and prohibited airspace around the White House, Congress, Pentagon) into DC, also with an even shorter runway with water on both ends. Some people so find San Diego quite hard because you are below the level of the high rises to your left and you missed the high rise parking garage at the end of the runway by only 100-200 feet on short final, but the approach is straightforward.
Isn’t Madeira supposed to be a bit of a toecurler?
The worst part of a go around as a passenger is that the pilots are understandably too busy to make a PA to let you know why.I’m going to do that at least 5 times tomorrow in the simulator, so it shouldn’t bother you. Happens all the time, and almost happened to me on landing just last night in Chicago. Sometimes, spacing is just too tight, aircraft land at different speeds and slow down at different rates, etc, etc...No biggie! Power up, suck up some flaps, gear up, climb speed, Bob’s your uncle...and come back around and do it again! ;-)
Straightforward, but we DO have a shorter touchdown zone.How about SNA (Santa Ana/John Wayne/Orange County)? Short runway and that weird noise abatement take-off.