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    BA 777 Lands short of runway. Heathrow closed

    in Real Aviation meets Simulation

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    A further report has been released: http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/publicationsg_ymmm.cfm

    Investigations are now underway in an attempt to replicate the damage seen to the engine high pressure fuel pumps, and to match this to the data recorded on the accident flight. In addition, comprehensive examination and analysis is to be conducted on the entire aircraft and engine fuel system; including the modelling of fuel flows taking account of the environmental and aerodynamic effects.

    Scared of flying

    in Real Aviation meets Simulation

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    I get stressed at the prospect of being treated like a criminal every time I go to a commercial airport, but the actual flying doesn't worry me (either in tubes or light GA - I have a PPL)

    Like Bill, I was initially nervous at the prospect of stalls (and steep turns, and...) but that was more from other pilots "horror stories" - which I'm sure are designed purely to scare student pilots!. I still don't like aeros much, or anything really that pulls 'G's, but then I don't like roller coasters either.

    I've also heard tell that it's not uncommon for pilots to be scared of heights, and certainly I get uncomfortable up a tall ladder.

    Electricity is your friend

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    If a power line hits your car, you are in immediate contravention of rule 3. Unless of course, you don't see it. So shut your eyes, and everything will be okay...

    BTW, you can get wind-up clockwork radios, or listen in the car if it isn't already a fizzing pile of molten scrap. :lol:

    Around the world trip

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    I have both books. They're at 2 mil scale, with a WGS84 projection. VORs NDBs etc are shown, but not ILS. Restricted airspace is shown, but not regular CTA/CTR/TMA airspace.

    To say they cover the world is rather an exaggeration. Between the two, they cover less than half. There's no coverage for South America, Antarctica, Oceania, Indonesia, China, Russia...

    They're designed really for airline pilots that want to see where they're going, rather than for lower airspace pilots. As such, they do a very good job, but are no substitute for regular VFR charts/sectionals/TPCs/ONCs.

    FINAL Fly-in files for FSX !!!!!

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    If there's still space, I'd like one please :)

    I've reached Kalmath Falls on my world tour, so it's PROB90 I'll be in Eagle Creek by Sunday. Could you tell me the LDA for that runway? it looks a tad short on the screenie, and I've just had the plane resprayed.... :wink:

    I still need to get the MP set up and tested, so if someone could point me towards the server details, that'd be great.. Ta. :)

    pip pip

    Smudger

    BA 777 Lands short of runway. Heathrow closed

    in Real Aviation meets Simulation

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    A further update: http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/latest_news/update.cfm

    Since the issue of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) 1st Preliminary Report on Friday 18 January 2008 at 1700 hrs, work has continued on all fronts to identify why neither engine responded to throttle lever inputs during the final approach. The 150 tonne aircraft was moved from the threshold of Runway 27L to an airport apron on Sunday evening, allowing the airport to return to normal operations.

    The AAIB, sensitive to the needs of the industry including Boeing, Rolls Royce, British Airways and other Boeing 777 operators and crews, is issuing this update to provide such further factual information as is now available.

    As previously reported, whilst the aircraft was stabilised on an ILS approach with the autopilot engaged, the autothrust system commanded an increase in thrust from both engines. The engines both initially responded but after about 3 seconds the thrust of the right engine reduced. Some eight seconds later the thrust reduced on the left engine to a similar level. The engines did not shut down and both engines continued to produce thrust at an engine speed above flight idle, but less than the commanded thrust.

    Recorded data indicates that an adequate fuel quantity was on board the aircraft and that the autothrottle and engine control commands were performing as expected prior to, and after, the reduction in thrust.

    All possible scenarios that could explain the thrust reduction and continued lack of response of the engines to throttle lever inputs are being examined, in close cooperation with Boeing, Rolls Royce and British Airways. This work includes a detailed analysis and examination of the complete fuel flow path from the aircraft tanks to the engine fuel nozzles.

    Further factual information will be released as and when available.

    BA 777 Lands short of runway. Heathrow closed

    in Real Aviation meets Simulation

    Posted

    The initial report is out: http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/latest_news/report.cfm

    Initial indications from the interviews and Flight Recorder analyses show the flight and approach to have progressed normally until the aircraft was established on late finals for Runway 27L. At approximately 600 ft and 2 miles from touch down, the Autothrottle demanded an increase in thrust from the two engines but the engines did not respond. Following further demands for increased thrust from the Autothrottle, and subsequently the flight crew moving the throttle levers, the engines similarly failed to respond. The aircraft speed reduced and the aircraft descended onto the grass short of the paved runway surface.

    Only question is: Why?...

    Citation X

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    Alas, I fear you will be too high and too fast for me to keep up (or breathe, even!). Apart from which I'm six months into my own Half-RTW (by a rather daft route), and still no sign of Blighty, or even Emma for that matter. If I'd looked for payware stopovers (1) I'd have been sorely disappointed - in 15,000 miles and four continents there have been just 4 payware "opportunities", and 3 of those were in the place I started out from! (2) If there had been payware for every place I'd stopped, and I'd bought it, I'd be broke! (which reminds me, sponsorship deals are available - there's plenty of empty decal space on the side of the plane.... :wink: )

    I also gave up looking for freeware - the FSX lists are empty, and the FS9 scenery is, by and large, painfully broken.

    viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67819 (just search on "Blighty" to see the other legs)

    KTS = MPH

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    Your thumb (joint to tip) is 10 nautical miles (or six minutes @ 100kts) on a half-mil chart. So as a rough guide, if your destination is 'three thumbs' away, that's 30 miles, or 18 minutes flying...

    That's not the original "rule of thumb", but it's a pretty good substitute! :D

    Now, as to how many knots in a pint, is that an Imperial pint (20floz) or a US pint (16floz)? I don't want to get short changed....

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