[Rhodes22-list] Take This Job and Shove It!

Steven Alm stevenalm at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 15:36:12 EDT 2007


Brad,

You probably saw the report this week from NASA about all the safety
concerns that apparently are much worse than the public knows.  So much so
that they refused to release the info for fear of panicking the public and
costing the airlines gobs of money in lost revenue.  Some one privy to the
report sited many more bird strikes, more near miss mid-air collisions, more
near miss ground collisions, etc.  They collected most of the data
interviewing pilots.  Have you found this to be the case?  Frequent fliers
want to know.

Slim

On 10/25/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hank,
>
> They keep the engines spooled.  If you notice, they were flying at flaps
> 22
> to keep the speed down.  Anything more than 22 the jet automatically
> retracts the flaps to keep from overstressing them and you get a constant
> horn without the gear down.  I'm guessing they're doing about 150 knots at
> the dump. Not only is FOD a problem but I wonder how much engine life they
> get running all that soot through the compressor section.  We were on
> break
> when I met them so we only got to visit for about 15 minutes.  They were
> an
> interesting bunch.  I'm happy to stick with moving rubber dogshit from
> point
> A to point B.
>
> Brad
>
> On 10/25/07, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > That is insane!  With the jet engine power lag, I would think that would
> > be
> > an extremely dangerous way to make a living!  What about FOD flaming out
> > the
> > engines?  Is that a risk?
> >
> > Hank
> >
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I met these guys last year while teaching in our old DC-10 sim in
> Miami.
> > > They're nuts!  Brad
> > >
> > > http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a7_1193165376
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