What are some of the techniques done to correct the drift?There is no attempt to correct the aircraft drift prior to touchdown.
This one is another interesting one. Is that the Pilot with the rudder at the 0.20 mark, or the FBW?
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What are some of the techniques done to correct the drift?There is no attempt to correct the aircraft drift prior to touchdown.
In simple terms. Flare, with no correction for drift, until you have a descent rate that you could live with. Then, feed in rudder, aiming to remove half of the drift. End result is that you'll land before finishing removing the drift, but problem solved. It will be tidy enough.What are some of the techniques done to correct the drift?
Only one rudder panel. FBW, I think.This one is another interesting one. Is that the Pilot with the rudder at the 0.20 mark, or the FBW?
Firstly there may not be any extra money in the promotion. There may be eventually, but the chances are that you'll have had to go to a smaller aircraft, on a lower pay scale to get the promotion slot. Straight away, without any issues of seniority, that almost certainly means a worse life style. You can't stay on the 'senior' aircraft that you may be on, because the slots there are wanted for the captains on the lessor aircraft looking to improve their lives. If they were to let the FO's have the slots on those senior aircraft, then they'd probably suffer a loss of captains from below. It's a queue. You can't jump it, but nothing stops you from standing still.There was an interesting Reuters article recently about United struggling with FOs being unwilling to upgrade to captaincy to the point that they're facing a shortage of captains. I'll link the article below, but it seems to partly be because more and more senior FOs are quite happy with the schedule and quality of life their seniority within the FO ranks affords, even relative to the extra money captaincy may pay.
It's always happened. When I got my 767 command, I jumped about 40 other FOs who were senior to me, because, for lots of reasons, they didn't want to go to the 767 at that point. Some were hanging out for a 747-400 command (an avenue that QF closed) or 747 Classic. Some just waited a year or two, others never jumped. My guess is that 80% of the ones who didn't jump would have had issues and were better off staying in the right seat.I'm sure it's not a new thing, but do you feel this is getting more common post-covid?
If nobody at all wants the seats, then I'm sure they could hire instant captains from outside. But, that's only if their applicable pay and conditions are such that an already qualified pilot would want them. I suspect they aren't, so it's basically a huge "own goal".Is there anything airlines can / do do to "nudge" FOs into the captain's chair who have decent seniority, or are there ways the seniority systems allows these issues to gradually normalise?
There are about a dozen TP schools in the world. There's a list here: List of test pilot schools - WikipediaI did the Airbus facilities/factory tour in Toulouse earlier this week and they mentioned that training as a test pilot is quite a bit different to a 'regular' pilot and also that there's a much smaller number of schools that facilitate such training. Is that correct as far as you guys know?
I don't know what effects covid had. Locally, a huge group of pilots retired, many years early, so in theory that should have opened up many slots. On the other hand, management used it as an opportunity to apply some pretty terrible EBAs, that I think will bite them in years to come, by making the entire career much less desirable.
Successful in the same way that Victoria got the Commonwealth Games?They allowed it and he was successful.
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Successful in the same way that Victoria got the Commonwealth Games?
No idea. Pretty frightening to watch though.Apart from needing a high level of trust in those in front, beside and behind, I am wondering if these pilots need a special endorsement to be able to do formation flying like this ?
& at 18:00 an L-39 jet arrives amongst the slower piston engines !Pretty frightening to watch though.
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It's Oshkosh. You can't compare it to anywhere else. I was lucky enough to experience it a lot of years ago, and it's heaven for GA pilots. Talking to friends in the ATC area, it's also considered the place to go to volunteer, so you can say you've been there.was skimming the YT video of Oshkosh
from about 1:40 there are waves of aircraft arriving which is interesting.
Apart from needing a high level of trust in those in front, beside and behind, I am wondering if these pilots need a special endorsement to be able to do formation flying like this ?
They are almost exclusively Mooneys. Some sort of planned mass arrival???
Sure you have your numbers right? 740 is a LST to MEL flight in the afternoon.Fog in LST this morning- not unusual this time of year, but why would JQ740 be held in SYD with pax not boarded “until the fog has started to lift” whereas JQ731 departed MEL as scheduled and got into LST OK
Ignoring the flight numbers...the fog forecast for Launceston had it appearing around 8am, and then hanging around for much of the day. So, if you were leaving and had an ETA that was 30 minutes prior to the onset, then...you're in luck. But, if your ETA was later, then you're going to need substantial hold, plus an alternate...and because the fog was actually there, then you'd just as likely end up at the alternate, which is an outcome that nobody wants.Fog in LST this morning- not unusual this time of year, but why would JQ740 be held in SYD with pax not boarded “until the fog has started to lift” whereas JQ731 departed MEL as scheduled and got into LST OK