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The great big "ask an airline pilot" thread!

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  • #1202
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    islanderre wrote: »
    I think that stick on the Captains LHS is for nosewheel steering on the ground........ not 100% sure though....

    There looks like there is something above that arc looking device. Up tight against the trim.


  • #1203
    sully2010
    Registered Users Posts: 593 ✭✭✭sully2010


    It could be a controller for the display screens, would make it easy switching to the different modes, any pilots on here know what its for?


  • #1204
    LeftBase
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    sully2010 wrote: »
    Just saw the picture of the gulfstream g650 on anet and noticed it has a side stick and yoke. Never saw this before, I presume they are both the same function for whatever the pilots preference is? And what to pilots generally prefer, sidestick or yoke?

    In the Gulfstream operator's manual it is in the diagram in Part C of the layout diagrams for the cockpit in Aircraft General but it isn't labeled :confused:


    Smurfjed flies Gulfstreams afaik so he should know.


  • #1205
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    islanderre wrote: »
    I think that stick on the Captains LHS is for nosewheel steering on the ground........ not 100% sure though....

    That's done by the little tiller on the LHS. I too am flumaxed what it is.

    Smurf, where are ye when we need you? Surely you have Internet access on those gulf streams?


  • #1206
    eatmyshorts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 821 ✭✭✭eatmyshorts


    sully2010 wrote: »
    Just saw the picture of the gulfstream g650 on anet and noticed it has a side stick and yoke. Never saw this before, I presume they are both the same function for whatever the pilots preference is? And what to pilots generally prefer, sidestick or yoke?

    They are the cursor controls for the MFD interface.


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  • #1207
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Thought that I answered this earlier, but crappy Internet due broken unsea cable.

    It's a hand rest with MFD controls on the top of it. Steering is the one on the bottom.

    .........
    The cursor control devices (CCD) are also distinctly different. Instead of EASy's two centre-console trackballs, the PlaneView cursor controls are handgrips mounted on the cockpit sidewalls, reminiscent of a fighter's switch-festooned throttle. The cursor is slewed by a thumb controller, while the "ENTER" function uses an index-finger trigger switch. The cursor is "jumped" from display to display with three buttons located just above the slew control. In EASy the cursor is slewed from display to display with the trackball. And while EASy has a rotary knob on the CCD panel to change display scales, I found PlaneView's CCD thumb scrollwheel easier to use...........

    This started in the G5, so it's also in the G450,550 and now 650.

    Smurfjed


  • #1208
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    Any more detailed info? It looks a massive thing just to play on the MFD. Cockpit looks like the star ship enterprise and is so more advanced than many airliners.

    The one big thing that I'd love to have is jeppesen / lido charts on a moving map screen re ground charts. Taxing in the pissins of snow/rain on a dark sh1tty evening reverting to paper ground charts in poor light looking for the reading specs is painful. The Gulf Stream appears to have all this gear?

    Rgds


  • #1209
    Dr.Rieux
    Registered Users Posts: 674 ✭✭✭Dr.Rieux


    One Concorde, F-WTSB had a side stick on the left hand side for a bit. There's more about it on the brilliant Concorde thread on pprune. http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-67.html. Post 1324


  • #1210
    sully2010
    Registered Users Posts: 593 ✭✭✭sully2010


    Found this video, not the best quality but its a nifty little gadget all the same!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgqBmySU2I


  • #1211
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvhIIE_QtU&feature=youtu.be Is quite interesting.

    Or if you want a little more information on the controller.

    http://www.honeywellbusinessaviation.com/resources/dyn/files/395295za4d3c6b1/_fn/planeview-brochure.pdf

    Smurfjed


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  • #1212
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    8604081458_512df701bf_z.jpg

    This is a similar controller, but from the Falcon 7X.

    smurfjed


  • #1213
    eatmyshorts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 821 ✭✭✭eatmyshorts


    Boeing_777-300ER_Cockpit_opt600x900_flikr.jpg

    Here are the 777 CCD's. They are the black touchpad and buttons directly below the CDU's.
    The 3 buttons above each trackpad are to select which MFD the cursor appears on. The "select" button (equivalent of the mouse button) is located on the side of the unit and is operated by the thumb.


  • #1214
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    On the ng737,can you choose which tank the apu takes its fuel from?


  • #1215
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    On the ng737,can you choose which tank the apu takes its fuel from?

    From my 737 days which neither today or yesterday the LH tank feeds the APU with the recommendation of a fuel pump on.

    Should an imbalance occur ie the APU left on for hours, I recall we used to open the x feed and turn a rh fuel pump on.

    To answer your question the answer is no I believe.


  • #1216
    A320
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭A320


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    On the ng737,can you choose which tank the apu takes its fuel from?

    No,its taken from l/h tank 1,on the NG There's no need to have a main pump on for start like the classic,Most NG's have a DC Boost pump fitted to aid start


  • #1217
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Stupid question time. Let's say you are piloting a flight from Dublin to London (or any location east of Dublin).

    As a pilot, which is more annoying prior to take-off and why?

    a) long backtaxi the full length of the runway and make a 180° turn to put the aircraft in takeoff position

    b) short taxi to the near end of the runway and take off heading west but make the 180° in the air

    This questions has given me countless sleepless nights.


  • #1218
    LeftBase
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    keith16 wrote: »
    Stupid question time. Let's say you are piloting a flight from Dublin to London (or any location east of Dublin).

    As a pilot, which is more annoying prior to take-off and why?

    a) long backtaxi the full length of the runway and make a 180° turn to put the aircraft in takeoff position

    b) short taxi to the near end of the runway and take off heading west but make the 180° in the air

    This questions has given me countless sleepless nights.

    Back taxi down the runway is annoying and long ones are very uncommon in large jet capable airports. Takes longer and there is always the chance that someone will land on you. You can easily spin her on a 5 pence in the air!


  • #1219
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    LeftBase wrote: »
    Back taxi down the runway is annoying and long ones are very uncommon in large jet capable airports. Takes longer and there is always the chance that someone will land on you. You can easily spin her on a 5 pence in the air!

    Yeah, as a passenger who pretends to fly the plane, I find the back taxi down the far end of the runway very annoying!

    But at least when you get airborne you are heading in the right direction! I feel like I'm getting to my easterly destination quicker!


  • #1220
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I have another question. Do any pilots here watch "Air Crash Investigations" and think to themselves "bullshit" at certain points of the show?

    I watch and really enjoy the show, but sometimes I reckon they over-egg it a bit on the investigation side of the program....they make it seem like the investigation teams work around the clock, smoky rooms....and that they work for ages on potential leads before ruling it out.

    What do pilots think generally of the show? Do you ever actually learn something from it?


  • #1221
    LeftBase
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    keith16 wrote: »
    I have another question. Do any pilots here watch "Air Crash Investigations" and think to themselves "bullshit" at certain points of the show?

    I watch and really enjoy the show, but sometimes I reckon they over-egg it a bit on the investigation side of the program....they make it seem like the investigation teams work around the clock, smoky rooms....and that they work for ages on potential leads before ruling it out.

    What do pilots think generally of the show? Do you ever actually learn something from it?

    A lot of pilots will say that everytime you talk to someone in aviation about aviation, fly a plane, or do anything aircraft related you im to learn something new.


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  • #1222
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    a) long backtaxi the full length of the runway and make a 180° turn to put the aircraft in takeoff position

    WE get paid by the hour.... Long slow taxi to the end and turn around :)

    smurfjed


  • #1223
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    smurfjed wrote: »
    WE get paid by the hour.... Long slow taxi to the end and turn around :)

    smurfjed

    Do you still be doing some pre flight checks during the taxi or is that all done prior to push back?


  • #1224
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    It starts with a cockpit preparation checklist about 30 minutes before departure, then the following:

    1: Before start checklist
    2: After start checklist
    3: Taxi Checklist
    4: Before takeoff checklist
    5: After takeoff checklists

    Checklists are accomplished by performing a memorised FLOW pattern, followed by reading the checklist with a challenge / response.

    All emergency / abnormal checklists are accomplished with read / do. We actually have no memory items.

    smurfjed


  • #1225
    basill
    Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭basill


    We actually have no memory items.

    You must have some surely? What about the first actions for unreliable airspeed or windshear or a rejected take off, on ground emergency just to name a few? Does your aircraft manufacturer want you to reach for a book during those?


  • #1226
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    basill wrote: »
    You must have some surely? What about the first actions for unreliable airspeed or windshear or a rejected take off, on ground emergency just to name a few? Does your aircraft manufacturer want you to reach for a book during those?

    I'll wade in here too, what about a uncontaminated engine failure off the deck and you need to secure same? Not really a time for rooting through a check when things need to acted upon fairly smartly.


  • #1227
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    I totally agree with both of you, the logic is strange, there are multiple occasions where an IMMEDIATE reaction is required without any time to refer to a checklist, but they are not memory items.

    8613248148_af9cb84799_z.jpg

    Look at the 2 checklists above, the Hawker had boxed immediate response memorised items, followed by the rest of the checklist. The Gulfstream has no boxed memory items. In fact their whole checklist philosophy is strange, looking at the Simuflite training video on how to accomplish checklists with two old American guys sitting in the cockpit, it was so laid back and slow that it resembled a couple of old timers sitting on the porch with a jug of Tennessee bourbon.

    smurfjed


  • #1228
    Mr_Roger_Bongos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Mr_Roger_Bongos


    I searched the thread for this but nothing came back.

    The Twin Towers - Do you believe the hijackers who'd only had prop training could have flown 757 and 767 jets accurately enough to hit the towers?

    My friend is a junior pilot for BA and he told me that his class sneaked some SIM time and of 6, only 1 hit the buildings.

    Not the standard question i know - but still one of interest!


  • #1229
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,027 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    I think that your question would be more suitable in the following forum...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576

    Moderator gets annoyed with us if we go off topic :)

    smurfjed


  • #1230
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Moderator gets annoyed with us if we go off topic :)

    smurfjed

    "underground fortress of the trolls" is where bongos is from........I wonder.


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  • #1231
    Suasdaguna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Suasdaguna1


    Smurf, what does the Gulf Stream checklist say re Engine Fire / Severe Damage? This is where things as we all agree get "sporty".... Thanks for throwing up the checklist in a previous post


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