Author Topic: Commercial Aviation questions (Read 1185 times)

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 07, 2006, 08:56:37 PM »

but thats not entering service for a long time

Dago · « **Reply #31 on:** February 07, 2006, 09:06:54 PM »

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so the 787 is replaceing the 767 or the 757

No, the 757 is out of production. It replaces the 767 if someone wants to buy it for that, it is basically the same pax numbers give or take.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 07, 2006, 09:20:30 PM »

but it also has longer range the the 757 and a cooler cockpit

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #33 on:** February 07, 2006, 11:44:48 PM »

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Originally posted by 1K3
Hold your breath....................... ..........

Good luck trying to get a window seat in that thing.

Suave · « **Reply #34 on:** February 08, 2006, 08:26:50 AM »

I was a passenger in a c-12 crossing either the cascades in washington or the continental divide in montana, can't remember. Anyway the wind came up off those mountains and shook that plane like a *****. One guy started talking to his god.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 08, 2006, 04:27:51 PM »

If you fly on a Chicago Express Jetstream 31 over on the chicago lansing route thats a bumpy ride

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 08, 2006, 07:31:21 PM »

UPS DC-8 cuaght fire and landed at PHL
LINK

Stringer · « **Reply #37 on:** February 08, 2006, 10:59:51 PM »

Flew into Roanoke in a Turboprop one day with the winds holding at about 30 to 35mph.

We hit a draft coming off that ridge the shot the plane up and back down, I actually hit my head on the overhead bins.

Pilot says we're gonna give it a try and makes a very steep decent from high over the ridge...the whole time decending there was a lady screaming that the pilot was trying to end it for all of us. That was a bumpy ride.

Hit clear air turbulence over the Pacific flying from Hong Kong to Chicago that was bad.

Actually, took off in a typhoon 3 or 4 warning (can't remember) from HK airport, and I think a China Airlines plane crashed about an hour after our departure trying to take off out of there due to the winds getting worse.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:31:55 PM »

try flying through a severe thunderstorm in Texas then you'll know why they put the barf bags there

texace · « **Reply #39 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:51:50 PM »

Done it...never needed a one. Never even looked up from my book, actually.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:56:31 PM »

well when I flew one through on our descent in DFW that pilot said prepare for a possible crash landing and engines kept on throttleing up and down

texace · « **Reply #41 on:** February 09, 2006, 10:01:44 PM »

You must have been flying through a tornado. I've been through take-offs and landings in all kinds of weather in Texas and never once have I been worried about my safety. The worst flight I've had was over the Appalachian Mountains on the way to Boston...and that was just a lot of chop.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #42 on:** February 09, 2006, 10:06:52 PM »

no but I was sitting behind the cokpit in row 1 so I heard the pilots going nuts if there was a tornado the tower would have diverted us to OKC but there was probaly lots of wind shear and lightning cuase the blue lightning lights were on at the airport not to mention the pilot saying thank you for flying American airlines on the way to the gate:lol

Golfer · « **Reply #43 on:** February 10, 2006, 12:15:56 AM »

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the tower would have diverted us to OKC

Yeah that's exactly what they would've done...

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 10, 2006, 04:42:57 PM »

Clip of the Concorde breaking the sound barrier