Awesome video above thanks.

Awesome video above thanks.

 

Welcome!  Glad it helped!

Found your other vids on YouTube I'm subscribed you always pick up something new

Found your other vids on YouTube I'm subscribed you always pick up something new

 

Thanks Wayne.  You're definitely right.  No matter how much you know, it's important to keep an eye out for new things.  Even a student can be a teacher at times.

Thanks Wayne. You're definitely right. No matter how much you know, it's important to keep an eye out for new things. Even a student can be a teacher at times.

Yep sure can keep up the great work, like to see one on RNAV approaches

Yep sure can keep up the great work, like to see one on RNAV approaches

 

Thanks for the suggestion.  What are you looking for, specifically?  I made some waves a few months ago by releasing a video arguing that approaches are approaches, as I'm slightly bewildered by people asking for tutorials on specific approach types.  Granted, back in the day, flying an NDB approach was tough, and a VOR approach could be difficult when doing it on raw data alone, but aircraft with NDs (which most planes with RNAV capability usually have) really negate the difficulty and differences of approaches now, I'd argue.

 

 

 

2) Spoilers are your friend!

 

They can be, but sometimes they are a bandaid for poor energy managment.

I try to use the spoilers as least as possible. I'd say... uhhhmmm... 91.46 % of the

time, I don't use the spoilers at all. Only when I get oddball routing from ATC and

they leave me high and fast might I use the speed brakes.

Most times not, but every once in a while you get the perfect storm..  :(

 

A slight add to this.. In my opinion, which is artificial when it comes to aircraft,

if you use the speed brakes, you have wasted some energy. In the perfect world,

the planning would be as to not require any speed brakes, and thus not waste any

energy that should be propelling the airplane to the runway, and not being wasted with

a high drag manuever.

So to me, it kind of a game to use the least speed brake as possible, and on most flight,

not use the speed brake at all.

If I fly a "normal path" VNAV wise, if I have to use the speed brakes, I feel like I've flown

a sloppy flight. Only if ATC gives me a scruffy approach which requires the drag, do

I feel I'm flying right when pulling the handle back. Sometimes you do have to use it

if you want to land when they want you to.  :|       @#^& happens..

But when flying normal, I don't use the speed brakes.  At all.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Or are flying in Japan. Lately going into Sapporo I've been getting these slam dunk descents, slow to 210kts, etc. Almost like they forget about us. 

 

I would agree that one tries to use the speed brakes as little as possible- I'm always interested in reducing the rumble that the passengers experience, especially using spoilers with flaps 5 (which is when the airflow really causes some noise in the tail section). But you just have to do what you can do to fit into the ATC situation. Flying into the NYC area, its a necessity. Boeing built some clean airplanes!

 

 

But you just have to do what you can do to fit into the ATC situation. Flying into the NYC area, its a necessity.

The is a useful link that I picked up in a Kyle Rodger's post several years ago.  http://tfmlearning.fly.faa.gov/NY_Airspace/NY_Airspace_Pkg/NY_Airspace.swf

The is a useful link that I picked up in a Kyle Rodger's post several years ago.  http://tfmlearning.fly.faa.gov/NY_Airspace/NY_Airspace_Pkg/NY_Airspace.swf

 

I love that link. Bookmarked!