Comments on: Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 4 https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/ THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SITE FOR EVERYONE WHO FLIES Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mrinak Das https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-381769 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:18:48 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-381769 Hi Sir/Mam,

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]]> By: Peggy Hall https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-366335 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:53:26 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-366335 What are the different sounds/bells/beeps? The words I knew. But the bells I dont. What is used to let the attendants know there might be some issues in the cockpit?

]]> By: Hamza https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-361738 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:54:40 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-361738 Also is it necessary to study a-level physics to become a commercial pilot?

]]> By: Tom H https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-360674 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 02:20:31 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-360674 HI;
Several years back I flew from JFK to BDA on a L-10ll had breakfast for a relatively short flight under 2 hrs.
But on way back to JFK on an old 727 while serving meals pilot discontinued dinner and said that we will be arriving into JFK early. Was this due to some kind of southeast tailwind pushing us quicker into JFK????? Just don’t understand why the captain would do this, never happened before. This happened in the 80’s when almost all int’ll flight had to have a meal. Thanks, Tom

]]> By: Lance Boyle https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-355762 Mon, 06 May 2019 05:08:26 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-355762 In reply to Lance Boyle.

My apologies for posting my question in the wrong place.

]]> By: Lance Boyle https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-355761 Mon, 06 May 2019 05:05:47 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-355761 Would the execution of the steps required to overcome a Runaway Stabilizer condition been the solution for the recent 737-MAX crashes? The Lion Air aircraft that crashed, the day before has had the same problem as the day it crashed caused by the faulty MCAS sensor, but had a different flight crew who did successfully use the steps for a Runaway Stabilizer, i.e.; Cut the Autothrottle, cut the Autopilot, cut the Auto Stab trim and then adjusted the Stabilizers by hand.

]]> By: David https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-341524 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 02:29:51 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-341524 In reply to sanidhya soni.

Northwest did this with their DC-9s. I saw it at DTW, specifically on the Terminal side of the McNamara “A” concourse. Definitely disconcerting because the plane would move forward a bit before the thrust reversers deployed.

]]> By: UncleStu https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-330515 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:51:50 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-330515 “Captain Brian Moody, in one of aviation’s all-time greatest quotes, described the landing as, “a bit like negotiating one’s way up a badger’s arse.”

Leave it a Brit to come up with that gem!!

]]> By: David B https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-330513 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:26:17 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-330513 Or Eastern 855 where the mechanics didn’t install the oil seals right; lost all 3 engines but restarted one and landed OK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_855

]]> By: sanidhya soni https://askthepilot.com/questions-4/#comment-326806 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 06:29:41 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=13053#comment-326806 American Airlines was among a few carriers that once authorized so-called “powerbacks” for its MD-80 series planes.

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