Ask The Pilot

[flyingfan]

Quite real. The spotters at London periodically catch people giving examples of how not to land a 380.

Is that a case of some airlines / individual pilots having shall we say higher risk tolerances? And it wouldn’t just be specific to LHR right?

 

[jb747]

The crewing is interesting , assume the centre human is on the throttles , right seat is flying and left seat is ?? standby ?

Both pilots have their hands on the controls. My guess would be that the bloke on the right is ghosting the captain. Engines being controlled by a flight engineer. The amount of throttle movement is extreme. A tad rough I guess.

 

[cosi]

What is the chance of space junk returning to earth hitting a commercial passenger plane while in flight?

 

[jb747]

What is the chance of space junk returning to earth hitting a commercial passenger plane while in flight?

Effectively zero. The recent media noise was pretty obviously a balloon.

 

[Brissy1]

What is the chance of space junk returning to earth hitting a commercial passenger plane while in flight?

Say 12000 acft airborne; av acft surface area 500sq m; surface area of earth (sky) at av flight height 600,000,000 sq km (to make the maths easy), converting to sqm...
= 1/100,000,000

So with 1 piece of junk falling per day, = 1 hit on average every 274,000 years.
Gee, another thing to worry about!

 

[jb747]

Is that a case of some airlines / individual pilots having shall we say higher risk tolerances? And it wouldn’t just be specific to LHR right?

This isn’t a risk tolerance issue. It’s a really poor bit of flying. It gives a spectacular snippet of video which the internet then mistakes for the exact opposite of what it is.

 

[mjt57]

This isn’t a risk tolerance issue. It’s a really poor bit of flying. It gives a spectacular snippet of video which the internet then mistakes for the exact opposite of what it is.

Yep, just been reading the comments. One guy said that it was a bad bit of flying (landing?), another said it was good. The guy then asked, "have you flown an A380? I have.".

Who knows, maybe he has, but in what capacity?

 

[Captain Halliday]

I’m m interested to from our pilots how they view the risk of GPS jamming and spoofing?

How do you detect it in flight?

When you do, what actions do you take?

For context this article has prompted my Q’s.