Yep amazing or revealing. I wonder how her Muslim faith interacts with her position as pilot?
She was only looking at the instruments during the ascent and not the window.
Yep amazing or revealing. I wonder how her Muslim faith interacts with her position as pilot? She was only looking at the instruments during the ascent and not the window.
As soon as the wheels leave the ground, the pilot on the controls follows the Flight Director (flight path), and the other pilot works radios, monitors engines and operates gear and flaps.
I'm not the least bit bothered about the ladies ability to take off, fly around, and land........ I've personally done all that myself, albeit in small stuff.
I'm far more interested in how they'd react when things go terribly wrong,...............
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One thing I have always wondered is why do they not use the tugs to take the aircraft to the end of the runways, this would save a phenomenal amount of jet fuel, engines coule be run-up prior to reaching the end of the runway and a parking area to go to should there be a problem.
One thing I have always wondered is why do they not use the tugs to take the aircraft to the end of the runways, this would save a phenomenal amount of jet fuel, engines coule be run-up prior to reaching the end of the runway and a parking area to go to should there be a problem.
When I worked for British Airports a study was done to look at that idea.
It was decided that it was a non-starter, but I cannot remember why.
Thinking about it now I can visualise several reasons:-
Tugs are expensive and there would have to be many additional ones bought to implement the system - maybe the capital cost, plus the operating cost including tug drivers' wages and training would be more than the taxiing cost of fuel.
A ground engineer would have to accompany the tug to the start-up point to monitor the start-up. An expensive use of highly trained personnel.
The sequencing of take-offs is not always the same as for taxi clearance, because of en-route ATC, so tugs and engineers would be tied up waiting for clearance.
The 'Holding Point' would have to be much larger to accomodate several aircraft for the several minutes it takes to start 2/4 engines and do the after-start checks before the ground engineer is instructed to disconnect the truck and that is done and the steering pins relocated.
ATC would not have the ability to to give a clearance to an aircraft approaching the runway to enter the runway and 'take it on the roll', i.e. not stop before take-off.
As you see the decision is more complex than saving a bit of fuel.
On the positive side I have been on several flights recently when only one engine is started up on push-back and the second one while taxiing to the runway - preferably before being cleared for take-off:wink2:
I still wonder how it sits with the Muslim faith as many Muslim woman have only recently been allowed out without a man. Certainly conflicting interpretation.
I still wonder how it sits with the Muslim faith https://casinotrick.net as many Muslim woman have only recently been allowed out without a man. Certainly conflicting interpretation.
Please Sir (Geoff Mk1) what would be the minimum sort of time between starting an engine and applying full take-off power?
Presumably certain temperatures need to stabilise first. I don't know what sort of expansions and other changes take place in a turbine as things heat up.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of flying hours those great engines do between maintenance when you consider the rpms they are doing.
Thats nothing! I used to be a navigator in a helicopter you know. I sh!t you not! I used to work with a bloke that was a Pharmo Scientist that went into the music industry (I also sh1t you not) and I was his consultant. He lived up the road from me and had an ex Navy Gazelle chopper in his back garden that we used for getting to meetings. First time I went up in it we had to go to Barton Airfield in Manchester and he chucked me an AA Road map and said "The Gps is knackered and thinks we are in Germany, your navigating". Its dead easy in a Chopper. I just followed the A66, cut across country, found the M62 and you could see Manchester (and the blackpool tower on the right) within 20 min of leaving the Dales.
A number of years ago I was a corporate hospitality guest at Silverstone for the F1 and the transport there was a helicopter from a field quite a number of miles away.
We had been flying for 5 or 6 minutes and the (lady) pilot said to me over the headphones, could I see a church anywhere out of my side! I couldn't and then realised she was looking at an O/S map and hadn't got a clue where we were! We eventually saw another helicopter and started following it and all was good!
Surprised to see dashcams on the windscreen.
Of course flying wasn’t my thing. I drove warships!
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