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There are many reasons they might not deploy even if armed. Looking at the main gear touchdowns (multiple) and possible power settings they might not have meet deployment criteria. It’s also worth noting that for at least the first 15 years of 767 flying it was not required to even arm them. In...

Boy you are listening to a different video than I am. They took off from 12L. There departure instructions were to fly a 105 heading. That’s a 15 degree left turn. They initially turn right which tower notices and corrects them to a left turn. That is about the only thing they comply with...

When they had the tough little A-4’s it was not unusual to swap a bit of paint.

The charted minimums are 4000 RVR for that approach. You can set company minimums higher than charted but never Lower.

Oceana is not going anywhere. There is simply no place they could move the number of squadrons they host.

I think some are way overestimating how long downwash remains a factor. I worked around large helo’s many times. 30 seconds is not enough but 10 minutes is way to much. I personally use 3 minutes.

Be aware that winning a lawsuit is not the same as collecting the money. A high percentage of lawsuits won never get paid. There are numerous dodges to legally avoid payment. The simplest is a divorce giving the wife 100% of the assets. Done by shoddy builders all the time. Simply moving assets...

If foam is ingested by a running engine it generally requires a overhual. If not running a wash would be required.

Delta had one furlough in the nineties of around 400 pilots if I recall correctly. They had zero furloughs in the eighties and if your uncle was employed by Delta in the Eighties he was never furloughed in the nineties. If you want to be home every night and work for a major airline it’s...

Standard trained defense against a visually acquired missile is out of burner, chaff and flares. If you are planning countermeasures for known threats in advance and will use a program you still would pop a mix to account for handheld IR threats that are everywhere. Conversely if you know there...

Hard to tell what happened from what you wrote. Only thing I can think of is they secured the bleed air on one engine for some type of failure. That would put them in a single pack operation. Single pack flight can have altitude restrictions. Often as low as 25,000 feet depending on the aircraft...

Flying can and will be a great career. There are many good jobs outside the major airlines and hiring is going to be substantial. Yes there has been a lot of hiring the last 10 years but many were older pilots who will retire in the next 20 years. The part I see overlooked again and again is...

The pilots wont be fired. They will get counseled and returned to the line.

It would need to be a clean sheet engine to get into higher HP. The reduction unit might be the biggest issue. I suspect they have something under development but it’s probably 10 years away.

They love military training and time. Get on with a regional and knock out another 1000 and you should be in good shape. Be aware however that at the majors they fully understand mil time. They might question 1000 hours without becoming a AC for example.

Mine does, I do however have a 3 blade composite prop. A big heavy metal prop will of course rotate longer. Most Rotax aircraft have very light props.

Rotax engines are shut down by killing the ignition systems like a car. Lycomings and Continentals are shutdown by cutting fuel flow. Ignition cutoff is instant. Fuel flow cutoff not so fast and many systems don’t kill the fuel flow completely with the mixture in idle cutoff as they age.

American runs a major operation out of Miami. It’s heavily ATC impacted. It’s good American blocks rooms. If you fly Breeze they might offer to let you sleep on the terminal floor.