Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my Hungarian is fine, but there is no
David Megginson wrote:
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my Hungarian is
David Megginson writes:
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my
I can find nothing anywhere else suggesting a new runway at Ferihegy.
Landing on taxiways or even at the wrong airport is not completely
without precident.
LOL...
I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
and only little wheelbrake was used, the runway must
Major A writes:
LOL...
I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
and only little wheelbrake was used, the runway must have been quite
long, certainly longer than the taxiway in that direction. The crew
was quite professional, the landing was exceptionally smooth
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes of
the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough satellites
to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of the aircaft.
I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I tried it on my last
flight.
Major A writes:
The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that would
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the aircaft. I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I
The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that would
have
David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the aircaft. I was pretty amazed
Christian Mayer writes:
David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
Or a savy customer relations staff that trains it's
crews to make the passengers feel important :-)
Norman
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
Captain: Hey, can you hold onto the yoke for a few
Major A writes:
I guess the navigator never uses any of the old radar etc. equipment
anymore...
The radar equipment is usually for weather, terrain, and traffic
detection, not for primary navigation.
All the best,
David
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Major A writes:
That's what I thought, but the sky was clear and we could see all the
lights on the ground.
If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
the front, and everything you see looks
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
The PC-12 is supposed to be a very
If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
the front, and everything you see looks different. You were probably
just on the approach to 13L/R.
That would have taken us straight over the city,
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:02, Tony Peden wrote:
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger
Major A wrote:
Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
(Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
Before 9/11 it was no problem at all - just ask a passing stewardess.
After 9/11 I
Tony Peden writes:
Altitude and rate of change of DME ought to work too ...
That is assuming you are on a radial, of course.
... which is always the case with a Victor airway. You can also
discount altitude unless you're very close to the station, since the
difference between slant
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:19, Major A wrote:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
Tony,
Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
(Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
It is illegal in the U.S. until after the flight.
It was legal in Germany before September,
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
All the best,
David
--
David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my Hungarian is fine, but there is no information on that site
that I
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