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Air France 447: Stalled From FL380 To The Surface
▷ After the autopilot disengagement: ◦ The airplane climed to 38,000 ft. ◦ The stall warning was triggered and the airplane stalled ◦ The inputs made by the PF were mainly nose-up ◦ The descent lasted 3 min 30, during which the airplane remained stalled. The angle of attack increased and remained above 35 degrees (airinsight.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This has been a real pleasure to read the "lingo" and think back. I flew into the old Kaitak in both 707's and 747's. At that time you had to have 6 total approaches under the "care" of a check pilot! The idea of "trust" between a pilot and his airceaft only came after much trial and error but when it came, it was wonderful! The 707 was the aircraft I felt I could put into anywhere under almost any conditions. I started with Pan Am as a pilot engineer on the 707. flew it for 12 years total and started on the 747 as a pilot engineer. Because I flew 2 contracts with "foreign" airlines (Korean, and China Air) I have a total of 19 years on the 747 but little to no time on the Bus or non-boeing aircraft. It has been good reading your thoughts even tho the discussion was about a tragedy. I have personally never been put into the terrible conditions of the pilots on 447 but I know enough about "distraction" and "confusion" that I can only feel the helplessness those guys muct have felt on the way down. I only wish the arrogant engineers who "know it all" had to ride through that (even in a sym.) to show them they really DON'T know it all!
I haven't heard anymore, but I'll bet you are right, especially on the 330's after all the flap and wonderment on 447. They seem to be keeping that awfully quiet about the 330's. I don't know if orders were even firm on those or not. Have a good weekend. I'm outa here
Knew you would have the scoop since it is in your back yard OLD boy.lol I'll bet they are more than happy with their decision after AF447's new findings and the blown engine on the 380.
The word on the street out here was that they were actually glad of the delays because it gave them a good excuse to cancel. When they got to looking at the extra cost that would have to be figured in to reconfigure Memphis and Greensboro and all their major metro terminals to handle the larger aircraft, it dawned on somebody that they had really $%^&*^ up and besides the demand thing, that was true, the 777 fit right into the schedule.LOL
Fedex, frustrated with delays in the Airbus A380 program, cancelled its order for ten of the aircraft in the freighter configuration early this morning. Citing “significant delays for delivery of A380s” and a need to meet the growing global package demand, the freight carrier elected to purchase the Boeing 777F instead of the much larger Airbus A380 aircraft. In response to the largest blow dealt to the Airbus A380 program, an Airbus spokesman said that “Airbus regrets FedEx’s decision but understand[s] their need to urgently address capacity issues.”
Wayne I just repeated what I was given, but I checked by goggling fed ex A380 and found on a site where they got fed up with the delay,s.