Cars & Transportation: Aircraft: “Question: Honestly How Hard to Handle Passenger Aircraft?how hard to maintain it?nowadays is it easy?with modern technology?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Honestly How Hard to Handle Passenger Aircraft?how hard to maintain it?nowadays is it easy?with modern technology?
- Question: Old pilots are not used to glass cockpit?
- Question: What should I eat before the FAA medical?
- Question: Is the faa vision test the same as the one for the dmv?
- Question: Are there Permanent Air routs in the world? i mean unchanging routs ?
- Question: In commercial piloting. How do the pilots talk to the air traffic controllers?
| Posted: 27 Aug 2015 12:43 AM PDT The aircraft isn't "hard" to fly, it's just VERY complex. Especially if something goes wrong. Like when the Quantas A380 had an engine disintegrate a few years back. It took the crew ~50 minutes to just run through the error codes the computers threw up, work out what systems they still had, and what was out of action, and how they could actually land. Again maintenance is very technical. It's not some guy with a spanner and greasy rag that works on the aircraft. Air NZ lost an Airbus over France on a test flight due to the maintenance crew painting an air speed sensor, and the test pilots doing a slow speed test too low to recover when the plane stalled. Errors by both the maintenance and the flight crew. So it's not "easy"  |
| Question: Old pilots are not used to glass cockpit? Posted: 26 Aug 2015 11:45 PM PDT I flew only airplanes with analog instruments . also known as "steam powered gages" - The last airplanes I flew were old 747 - I never wanted to fly the 747-400 - I retired in 2008 having flown 747 for over 22 years - Another thing I disliked was "2 pilot airplanes" - I would miss the flight engineer - This is the problem of old and new generation pilots - So... I do not like glass cockpit - |
| Question: What should I eat before the FAA medical? Posted: 26 Aug 2015 08:43 PM PDT Report AbuseAdditional Details |