View Poll Results: In almost 20 years of TCAS, how many RA's ?
Never
6
5.56%
1 or 2
28
25.93%
3 or 4
22
20.37%
More than 4
52
48.15%
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TCAS RA's, Bird Strikes, Engines, Decompress
12-21-2009, 08:56 AM
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12-21-2009, 09:05 AM
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Did you want us to combine all of the problems in the title of the thread, or just vote on RAs?
I've had maybe two RAs, but what I don't like is getting a TA from an aircraft with no Mode C, who you know is scud running, lost or both.
More bird strikes than I can count. We would run the radar full time, and it does not deter geese. Delayed rotation once to miss a flock of geese on take off. Another time had to climb over a flock of geese at 400 feet after take off. We had fortunately already traded in our Diesel-9s, so we had the power to go over them.
Three jet engines. One corn cobbed, one blown oil cooler, one ruptured fuel line.
No decompressions, but I've flown several people who've made me quickly don my mask.
I've had maybe two RAs, but what I don't like is getting a TA from an aircraft with no Mode C, who you know is scud running, lost or both.
More bird strikes than I can count. We would run the radar full time, and it does not deter geese. Delayed rotation once to miss a flock of geese on take off. Another time had to climb over a flock of geese at 400 feet after take off. We had fortunately already traded in our Diesel-9s, so we had the power to go over them.
Three jet engines. One corn cobbed, one blown oil cooler, one ruptured fuel line.
No decompressions, but I've flown several people who've made me quickly don my mask.
12-21-2009, 12:14 PM
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I still remember about a year and a half ago, my first flight as an FO of a commercial jetliner, 0 Hours jet time first IOE flight, doing the Arc for RWY 01 in Guatemala City, one of the most challenging approaches in Central America (after TGU of course) and I get a DUAL resolution advisory 2 small props on visual patterns were chatting on tower frequency oblivious to the fact that the controller was trying to tell them that they were headed straight for each other and an E190.
12-21-2009, 01:44 PM
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Just vote on the RA's. The other stuff is "filler".
For me, I can't recall another RA. I've gotten EGPWS a few times... that'll wake you up at night ;-)
I've hit a few small birds until coming to Africa. Now, I regularly hit big birds. Lots of them.
Never lost a jet engine, or had to shut one down.
No decompressions.
12-21-2009, 03:15 PM
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It is a good thing you are a CRJ F/O, it would be very hard for you to make a living as an electrical engineer and virtually impossible to make it as a comedian
Anyway's, RA's? TCAS hasn't been around for all of my career but I've had a few, Decompress? one, Engine failures? I started my career flying radial engines as I mentioned before so the question should be; You haven't had engine failures? Bird strikes? haven't we all gotten more than a few of those?
Anyway's, RA's? TCAS hasn't been around for all of my career but I've had a few, Decompress? one, Engine failures? I started my career flying radial engines as I mentioned before so the question should be; You haven't had engine failures? Bird strikes? haven't we all gotten more than a few of those?
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12-23-2009, 01:26 AM
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Already made a living doing aircraft electronics.... many moons ago, however. As I recall, it paid better than a typical modern day CRJ FO in the US. My response was glib... not comedy.
Anyway's, RA's? TCAS hasn't been around for all of my career but I've had a few, Decompress? one, Engine failures? I started my career flying radial engines as I mentioned before so the question should be; You haven't had engine failures?
Yes, I should have confined the question to jet engines. I've had engines quit in pistons, but never a jet.
Bird strikes? haven't we all gotten more than a few of those?
The common lore around the tropical equator is that if you hit birds once a year "back home" (presumably US, Canada, and Europe), you'll probably hit birds once a week here. Seems to be playing out for me.
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