I just watched the Smithsonian channel program on air disasters the other
night, and they we doing the Airbus crash at the Paris airshow where the A380
(I think) failed to claims out after a low pass and scraped the trees at the
end of the runway and subsequently crashed.
There was a compelling
Dan Penoff writes:
> According to a friend who is a NWA pilot, "hands free" landings are
> against company policy, and are only allowed every so many hours as a
> part of a check ride.
I thought in the Airbus, at least in in "normal law" the computer is
ultimately in control, and will override t
According to a friend who is a NWA pilot, "hands free" landings are against
company policy, and are only allowed every so many hours as a part of a check
ride.
He says they will allow it to take the plane down close to the threshold, but
their hands never leave the controls.
Dan
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Curt Raymond writes:
> Yeah well... I can't tell the difference, there are smooth landings
> and rough landings and it seems to have more to do with pilot skill
> than anything else.
The computer is landing the plane most of the time, these days. The
pilot is just along for the ride, and to get
amped and stuffy but that probably has more to do with the airline than
anything else.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:59:44 -0400
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My beef with airbus is not the ride, it's the landing; they seem to be very
difficult to keep in the middle of the air when pushed out of the normal flight
profile.
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Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300
'87 300TD
Curt Raymond wrote:
>I've ridden a fair amount in Airbus planes the last few yea
lways seem to get seated in the
back and they're LOUD.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:09:51 -0400
From: "Max Dillon"
To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'"
Subject: [MBZ] Airbus - was Super Robot controlled by a smartphone
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--R wrote:
> I got to fly on a BA 777 right after they came out...
I flew on one of the first 777 in United fleet ORD-DEN. The captain
was impressive to hear explain the comparisons with previous
airplanes. One comparison was the thrust in the engines - only 2
engines, compared with the 8 engine
I got to fly on a BA 777 right after they came out, it was the second
BOS-LHR flight for the airplane. It was brand new, smelled like a new
car, and the BA crew were s excited to be on it (it was "their"
airplane!). I spent a good time on the flt chatting them up and getting
a tour of a l
> Rich Thomas wrote:
> What could go wrong?
Probably not much. Just ask some of the Airbus pilots. Oh, wait - you
can't ask them. They're dead.
--Philip
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I just flew from Naples Italy to Paris on an Air France airbus; was
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