FDX - Anyone been to LHBP lately? OUCH!!
10-25-2010, 08:06 AM
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The "experts" are discussing the incident here 
FedEx MD-11 Taxi Incident In BUD — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
FedEx MD-11 Taxi Incident In BUD — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
10-25-2010, 08:11 AM
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The "experts" are discussing the incident here
FedEx MD-11 Taxi Incident In BUD — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
FedEx MD-11 Taxi Incident In BUD — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net
"The 77F has auto-taxi at the new Asia-Pac hub in PVG. They land and flip a switch and sit back till that gate in. Pretty sweet. Won't have any issues with rolling into a ditch or busted asphalt"
Absolute classic. I can't find anything about that system in our 777 maintenance manual??
10-25-2010, 08:11 AM
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Incident report here with some facts
Icident: FedEx MD-11 off TWY @ LHBP - Spotter Fórum - Budapest Ferihegy Airport (BUD/LHBP) | AIRportal.hu
Icident: FedEx MD-11 off TWY @ LHBP - Spotter Fórum - Budapest Ferihegy Airport (BUD/LHBP) | AIRportal.hu
10-25-2010, 10:30 AM
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The "experts" are discussing the incident here
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And I've heard of an Otto Bus Driver....
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.....but never an Auto Taxi.
10-25-2010, 06:22 PM
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Back when I flew 747's for a living [back when I was a REAL pilot who didn't flip switches for a living, as I do now~]
I flew 747's. I was always worried about the surface at the airport I flew out of. The 747 classic that I flew then had a max takeofff weight of 830,000 pounds. The 747 flies JUST like the 727, you can't tell them apart.
[I'm serious; if you killed all the lights on a 747 and then invited a 727 crew into the cockpit and asked them what they were flying, they would think it was a 727. The big 747 will use every single INCH of the runway that you give it for takeoff and landing. That plane flies nice....but it is a runway pig.
J: Type rated on the 727 and the 747.
Its not hard to put a wheel about 10 feet west of where it should be. That's all I'm saying, I'm not going into it.
I flew 747's. I was always worried about the surface at the airport I flew out of. The 747 classic that I flew then had a max takeofff weight of 830,000 pounds. The 747 flies JUST like the 727, you can't tell them apart.
[I'm serious; if you killed all the lights on a 747 and then invited a 727 crew into the cockpit and asked them what they were flying, they would think it was a 727. The big 747 will use every single INCH of the runway that you give it for takeoff and landing. That plane flies nice....but it is a runway pig.
J: Type rated on the 727 and the 747.
Its not hard to put a wheel about 10 feet west of where it should be. That's all I'm saying, I'm not going into it.
10-26-2010, 07:48 AM
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Depends at some carriers the Flight Engineer was not a pilot. Your flight engineer license does not give you PIC or SIC privileges.
Definition of PILOT
1
a : one employed to steer a ship : helmsman b : a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters c : a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
flight engineer
noun
Definition of FLIGHT ENGINEER
: a flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation
Definition of PILOT
1
a : one employed to steer a ship : helmsman b : a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters c : a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
flight engineer
noun
Definition of FLIGHT ENGINEER
: a flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation
10-28-2010, 05:00 AM
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10-30-2010, 01:32 PM
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What's really uplifting about this is the fact that the FO and the RFO will likely get a "jeopardy" trip to the sim -- as if wither one could or should have stopped this aircraft from going off the LEFT side of the taxiway.
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