Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Mentour Pilot" channel.

  1. It keeps the rain off your head while inspecting the aircraft. It keeps the sun off your head while inspecting the aircraft.
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  2. They might be sold for cargo conversion.
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  3. There are also FAA reports of cracks in the A320 structure.
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  4. supertrix101 — Despite it’s reputation, the DC-10 remained in service for many years after its early troubles. People flew on it — even those like me who didn’t like it, because it took us where we needed to go. I feel much better about the 737 Max than I did about the DC-10. The Max is an excellent aircraft which had one horrible defect. It’s been fixed and it’s time to move on, in my opinion.
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  5. Tinotenda Mandizvidza — MD-11 has winglets and the tail end is squared off like a flat-bladed screwdriver. Those are the easiest differences to spot.
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  6. speculative
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  7. Tubmaster 5000 — I think that’s better than the other way around. You can’t control public opinion, put you can control the technical issues. When they start flying again, most people who have qualms will get over it.
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  8. William Swenson — I’m sure they have already done thorough testing of that behavior, but it would require using their test aircraft in which they could install special hardware to emulate failures. Dickson may want to fly an aircraft in customer-ready configuration. It’s just PR anyway.
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  9. Because, despite their current troubles, Boeing makes some great aicraft, notably the triple-7 and 747.
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  10. Paulo Gaeta — The reason you don’t understand the problem is that you are reading “all” the articles and apparantly giving credence to the ones that are pure baloney. There is a lot of baloney out there and the idea that there was something wrong with the choice of engine is baloney. You should stick to the articles with more and better meat.
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  11. Not just a mistake by the maintenance team, but also by the team who produced the procedures not requiring an indrpendent inspection when the plug door was only opened but not removed.
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  12. I have been ready to fly on a MAX for a long time. In my opinion, it has taken far too long to get it back in service.
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  13. Eric Lozen — No gentleman age 50 or over is complete without a hat.
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  14. Martin H. — That’s not true. The revised MCAS does very little.
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  15. The fence is partial? There’s the problem.
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  16. Andrew Miller — Most people don’t care.
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  17. DB Thats-Me — That’s a strange rule. When the pilots stand at the door of the flight deck to see passengers off, they should not be wearing their hats because they are indoors. A gentleman removes his hat indoors. I don’t expect they would wear their hat while operating the aircraft. When they walk off into the terminal, then hats and coats would be proper.
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  18. Another reason it that it helps keep your head warm when you are inspecting the aircraft in cold weather. You can lose a lot of heat through your head. You wouldn’t want to rush your inspection just because it was freezing cold.
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  19. zodszoo — MD-11 has a larger air inlet on #2 engne.
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  20. Paul Osborne — What Boeing builds is largely determined by what customers want to buy.
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  21. Mark S — Airbus also had a rudder problem, in 2001. American Airlines 587.
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  22. There is also a current FAA Airworthiness Directive pertaining to cracking in structural parts in Airbus 320 and related models of aircraft. Nobody is talking about it because that sort of problem is not unusual.
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  23. There is a jacking point near each gear.
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  24. Piotr Miszczak — People flew on the Comet after the first mysterious crash and grounding, which led to another tragedy. After the second crash, the problem was discovered and fixed. A variant of the aircraft (post-fix) was flown in government service for some time.
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  25. Leonardo Corrales — Boeing have always been conservative about changes to the controls. That’s a good thing, in my opinion.
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  26. Over Under Above — Most passengers do not even know what they are flying on.
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  27. It seems to me that Boeing should be doing the conversion. Maybe the third-party conversion is a poor design.
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  28. a4yster — This was not caused by Brexit. TC was in debt trouble years ago.
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  29. Phoenixspin — The MAX aircraft will not be scrapped merely to indulge your irrational fears. Other people are ready to fly on them.
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  30. If Boeing had done this, they would have been called out for it, but Boeing haters never criticize Airbus when they screw up.
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  31. Calhoun has to be given a chance, because he knows the company to some extent, at least. An outsider would find it more difficult to get control of the situation. I don’t know how much the board had to do with getting into this mess, but I do fault them for supporting Muilenburg much longer than they should have. He had no credibility from the beginning of the troubles. Ironically, Muilenburg came up through Boeing engineering to reach the highest level of the company.
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  32. There is nothing more expensive than cost saving gone bad.
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  33. Flying on a commercial airplane is safer than driving.
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  34. Weight, and the loss of a window.
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  35. The engineers should have stuck around until the plane departed.
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  36. The 737 has two, but the MCAS system did not use them properly. When they disagree, the pikots should be alerted and they should have no effect on the flight controls.
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  37. Excellent discussion! I had heard of this crash before, but did not know all these details. At the end, the captain’s explanation in his defense omits the fact that he was well below his minimum allowed altitude. He should have been trying to get his altitude up rather than trying to change the heading to the other runway. I have one comment where you discuss flight controls at 3:20 ff. You jump directly from mechanical linkage (cables) to computer controlled electrical linkage (fly-by-wire). But mechanical linkage is not used in the larger aircraft. Prior to computer controlled flight surfaces, they could have electrical and hydraulic linkage from flight deck controls to electric motors and hydraulic valves which would move the flight surfaces. It is the addition of computers, not electric wiring, that is the revolution in modern flight control systems. Without the computer, the pilot’s intent is transmitted directly to the flight surfaces, whether by cables, hydraulics, or electric wiring.
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  38. Is there an audible response when TOGA is activated? Should there be?
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  39. It has, and it has a perfect record since reintroduction.
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  40. C.T. Wellington — You don’t understand the problem at all. You are just repeating falsehoods promoted by fearmongers or people who may have an ulterior motive.
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  41. Richard Reynolds — That’s the popular interpretation, but Dennis Mullenburg started his career at Boeing in 1985. Kevin McAllister came from GE, not McDonnell-Douglas.
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  42. Reverend Rodinal — I would feel better about the FAA if they had fired Elwell. Dickson has been tough on Boeing, but he needs to show the FAA is being reformed.
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  43. It’s a cockamamie idea, and ironic coming on the heels of the single-sensor MCAS problem. No one who sincerely believes that safety is the first priority should be for this, because the motivation is purely economic. Even the economic argument is weak. Since all commercial airliners are subject to the two-pilot rules, there is no competitive advantage to be gained.
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  44. Jeff Bourke — The software changes will stop the plane from crashing, not the training.
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  45. The number is the heading and that is useful.
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  46. They were sold. The passengers missed theflight.
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  47. wrong
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  48. I like 737s, including MAX. This process is taking far too long, in my opinion.
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  49. Ontario, California was named after the province of Ontario, whence its founders came. Such duplication can work both ways. For example, the city of Vancouver, Washington was founded well before the city of Vancouver, B.C. (both named after George Vancouver). Canadians also take names from their ancestral homeland. London, Ontario is an example. London International Airport serves London, Ontario.
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  50. I don't think it was merely luck that the departing plug door did not hit the horizontal stabilizer. When it came free of the stop pads, the bottom edge was still held by the hinges. The air pressure forced the top of the door to rotate out and down. When it broke free from the hinge, it was below the horizontal stabilizer with downward momentum. It would have required unusual airflow to lift the door to the height of the stabilizer before it had been left behind.
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