Recent content by Astro14

If you had experienced even a fraction of the cancellations I have on that pile of junk, you would loathe them, too. A Dash-8 is a paragon of reliability by comparison, give me an ancient Dash-8 over this thing any day. Literally dozens of times that I had to drive ORF-IAD as the result of...

They are an improvement on paper - but the dispatch reliability has been atrocious. One of the least reliable airplanes built in the past few decades. Several Express Carriers in the US bought them, only to dump them a few years later after so many cancellations. When I saw a Q400 at the gate...

I never relied on the barometric altimeter when flying low level - it was always RADALT. Set the bug at 80’ 9 and if it chirped, tweak the pitch just a hair. Got pretty good at telling exactly how high I was without the RADALT - but I would never have used baro. Baro doesn't compensate for...

The pilot in command is not determined by rank.

This is an older thread, but the FA in this crash did an truly great job getting everyone out. https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/delta-crash-at-toronto.392499/

My last several EWR flights have been right on time - both departure and arrival. Sure, WX can cause problems, but the airport seems to be running pretty well lately.

We’ve looked into Solar - but we don’t plan to be in the house long enough for the ROI to work out. The S600 is just over 135,000 miles. The V-12 runs like new. It’s a beast. I’ve never owned a car that felt so much like a jet. Endless torque, blistering acceleration, and it handles corners...

The Lucid would be my first choice - it has the range, and it is a luxury sedan, but it is awfully expensive. I would actually lean towards the Volvo S90 Plug in Hybrid if I had to buy today. Same powertrain and air suspension as my wife’s XC90, which puts it at 455 HP. A quick, quiet, luxury...

My admittedly modest intersection with EV is the installation of a Tesla charger at our house (full 60A capacity) and the ownership of a plug in hybrid. Plugging the car in takes seconds. Leave it for the night, get it unplugged later. Always ready. Never a line. No pulling in/out of a gas...

If all that tech was wrapped in a reasonably attractive package, I would be tempted. It’s got some great features and drives well. But that current, impractical, and ugly, body makes it a hard pass.

The training is performed in simulators with exits that work, or don’t, and smoke, noise and people who aren’t cooperating. It’s hard, and stressful. The commands are standard, and flight attendants must yell them out precisely as directed to pass the evaluation.

I’ve had good luck with Dell. A refurbished Dell would be a good budget pick. My wife’s old Dell is over 12 years old, and still runs just fine. I got her a Dell XPS 13 a few years ago - super light, very thin, very fast, beautiful display. Costco had the best price by far. If you’re a...

The original Space Shuttle computers were 32 bit machines running about 1/2 million instructions per second with KB of RAM memory, later upgraded to about 1MB and doubling the speed - your old laptop is far faster, with more RAM and is more than capable of launching the Space Shuttle! 😎

Also Devil’s advocate - Is the nebulizer worth the life of those several people delayed by your retrieval? In an actual aircraft fire, people live and die by seconds. Those people who retrieve their bags take seconds away from those behind them. Seconds in retrieving the bag, more seconds in...

I’m not sure that I am buying a “power loss” as explanation for the maneuver. At relatively high airspeed, like he was, the loss of thrust in one engine causes a modest yaw, and a modest resulting proverse roll. I believe he lost an engine, because only the left engine was in AB as he pulled...