Another FDX MD?
05-09-2009, 06:59 AM
#102
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05-09-2009, 04:09 PM
#103
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05-09-2009, 06:19 PM
#104
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Position: 757 Capt
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Simple answer is that you have to fly airplanes to fly safe airplanes. My guess is that if you always put the A/P on at 500' and click it off at 200' you may not be as safe as you should be. Then you add in the fact some have more miles in NWA First Class than FedEx cockpits. The 727 fleet does not appear to have a problem, wonder why?
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05-09-2009, 07:13 PM
#105
...Whatever It Is!
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What do the Northern Lights have to do with anything?
05-09-2009, 08:13 PM
#106
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05-09-2009, 09:19 PM
#107
Ok, No more sleeping Dog
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: MD-11, F/O
Posts: 889
Ya know....I was going to roll in hot on FH's comment.....Thought it was one of the most myopic, parochial and id"!ot!c of his many posts.....but then I read the above quote. FDX727........there are just no words for how.......ostrich like.....your post is. 1st it foments class (equipment) divisivement, 2nd it is incredibly dis-respectful and insensitive, and 3rd just plain highlights the fact that the hole you have stuck your own ostrich head in is indeed your own Bun&ho!e......the problems we face are systemic and cross all equipment, seniority and background lines. Perhaps a refocus on such issues as scheduling practices and fatigue would yield more progress and industry advancing solutions. JMHO
05-09-2009, 10:45 PM
#109
New Hire
Joined APC: May 2009
Position: MD-11 Captain
Posts: 7
[quote=highflyer;606185]
I find the Sim to be more intimidating than the Aircraft, too. I have flown with many low-time F/O's who are nervous about making X-wind landings because they had trouble with the maneuver in the Sim. It takes a few successful X-wind landings to get over the apprehension bred in the Sim.
I once knew a check airman (at the previous airline) who was proud of the fact that he was able to convince the Sim techs to adjust the 747 simulator to require more rudder than the Aircraft during a V1 cut. He believed that it got students to “use their feet better.” Maybe something like that is going on here.
Guess you never fly the 727-200- 2S2F Sim! It ib n no way simulated the actual aircraft.
I agree. and in no way does the MD-11 sim compare to the real airplane when it comes to crosswind landings. You fly the real airplane to the runway, in the sim you plug in the aileron and if you take it out you're screwed. I can play the game like anyone else, but the sim just can't teach you a realistic crosswind landing.
I agree. and in no way does the MD-11 sim compare to the real airplane when it comes to crosswind landings. You fly the real airplane to the runway, in the sim you plug in the aileron and if you take it out you're screwed. I can play the game like anyone else, but the sim just can't teach you a realistic crosswind landing.
I once knew a check airman (at the previous airline) who was proud of the fact that he was able to convince the Sim techs to adjust the 747 simulator to require more rudder than the Aircraft during a V1 cut. He believed that it got students to “use their feet better.” Maybe something like that is going on here.
05-10-2009, 01:29 AM
#110
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 829
[quote=SilverEagle;607831]
American made the same type adjustment (flight controls inhibited) to their sims for upset training, the unintended consequences were unimaginable.
..I once knew a check airman (at the previous airline) who was proud of the fact that he was able to convince the Sim techs to adjust the 747 simulator to require more rudder than the Aircraft during a V1 cut. He believed that it got students to “use their feet better.” Maybe something like that is going on here....
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