Lot of talk about grounding the 737 Max type....
I wonder how the crews flying them feel about the aircraft......

WTF are the aircraft falling apart?

A quick search of the Cival Aircraft Registry shows.......
[http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/c ... hSimp.aspx]

Changes in Latitudes wrote:This is simple, really. You just march up to that flight deck, bang on the door, tell em' you're a pilot and demand answers.

I love it....

[quote="boeingboy"]B52,You seem to be nothing more than some consipiracy theorist, those people make up some situation that is made up out of there own ignorance. Any evidence to the contrary is dismissed right away or ignored completely. You are losing all credibility with me./[quote] He is with me...

From the Guardian

" Then searches for missing planes won't have to resemble the hunt for Amelia Earhart."

I was just thinking this could be the Amelia Earhart story for this century....

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GyvAir wrote:.

Why is this thread in the Accidents forum?

Cause these drums are an accident waiting to happen

i'd say it fell under the "overdue aircraft" category....

I know back in my skydiving days many years ago I saw many videos of Porters in a dive, beating the freefallers down from altitude. Always wondered about the stress cycles on those wings, as I heard many boasts of more cycles due to the ability of getting the jumpship down quickly - which implies i...

Mr. Hawkins was completing a float rating. The accident flight was to be his last one prior to qualifying. If this statement is true, then Mr. Hawkins had no business carrying a passenger. If Mr. Kuijer, who as stated was an experienced flight instructor, he would have known that....... Therefore i...

I don't know the date of this but it just crossed my desk, very sad ending of an aircraft Air China OK you leave the nut off a leading edge flap roller. When the flap retracts the bolt falls into the track rail and is pushed back and punctures the fuel tank. In flight no problem, but when you park t...

Beefitarian wrote:

Hi ggcc, how's it going?

Great Beef, thanks for asking.... We are going to need "A few good (tail dragger) men" when I get those AN2's over here....

Funny story. I was going to take a Citabria flying a couple years ago. I hadn't flown a Citabria since I was a teen. My dad happened to be on the field and when I told him I was just going to hop in and go he convinced me to fly with a local guy who owns a Citabria (I didn't know him well at the ti...

Perhaps tandem seating might work better for you. That way you aren't overlapping. So something like a Bellanca Citabria or Scout. they're tail wheel so that brings other hurdles for your training and I don't remember them being particularily roomy but I flew the mighty 150 and had some bigger stud...

I stole this from the ATP Forum, hope no one minds.... (quote) colin Bristol Instructor Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,920 Re: V Speeds (VMO, VNE, VD) Hello Lance If you look in Principles of Flight in Chapter 1 you will find all the definitions for the V speeds. Similarly if you look in Chapter 15 of...

A quick check of Google will give you all of the V numbers, there is a difference between the two you inquired about....simply VNE Never exceed speed. VNO Maximum structural cruising speed or maximum speed for normal operations. I used to get that stuff from "The Ground Up" do they still use it in t...

The Bell P-39 peaked my interest from the internal list. I'm not sure about the external displace. Except I would be pretty cool flying that Fleet Model 80 Canuck and giving rides in it. My two cents. I can't speak about Airacobras but i did train on two different Fleet Canuck 80's and soloed CF-DE...

I propose no seats at all and a subway car type of interior where we all stand and hang onto straps, much more efficient

A wonderful story that brought tears to my eyes.....but i'm an Old Geezer.

Meanwhile "back at the ranch" we have two threads (one a pissing contest) going on about "flying being easy"

I've concluded it's the men not the machines.....

seasonaldriver wrote:

Shiny Side Up wrote:If flying was easy, we'd let women, children and senior citizens do it... Oh wait, we do.

And us senior citizens are a problem?

Yup! We know too much and the youngsters won't listen