blueb0g
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How about Read the manual? Sure, sounds like a plan! Good boy.
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Climb speed changes could be due to noise abatement procedures programmed into SID's, what runway/airport/SID were you using?
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Mine's showing as 27k atm!
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Don't hold out for a 787. Not now that QualityWings is doing one (and it's looking amazing, I have to say.)
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Are you using the PMDG pushback in the FMC menu?
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No, they're not, he's right - that's the terrain alarm, and the radar seems to think that there's high ground of some 9,500 feet just ahead of him. Does toggling the TERR on and off & repainting the terrain on your radar do anything? Possibly an error in the terrain database.
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Wow, sounds like you've had a sweet career so far if I may say so! And yeah, an AoA indicator is something I think should be incorporated into all cockpits - I mean, it's crazy to measure the alpha and then not give that information to the crew.
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Unreliable airspeed triggers an A/P and A/T disconnect and a switch to Alternate Law. The pilots of AF 447 were certainly put in a confused state by that, plus they'd had no high altitude unreliable airspeed training, and so responded with procedures for unreliable airspeed at low altitude, which put them in a stall (and with no stall protection obviously.) Interesting how they never even realised they were stalled - don't blame them to be honest, especially with the intermittent stall warner (and very odd stall characteristics.) And yeah, I agree it's very unlikely a pilot would ever have to override the FBW - but still, nice to have contingency, no? Doesn't of course detract from the fact that the Airbus's are absolute marvels of engineering, really fantastic aircraft and great for pax & crew alike. Oh and was it Aer Lingus too that you flew the 737 classics for?
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Check the flaps are going down symmetrically, that's all I can think of at this stage.
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It's not the sidesticks I'm opposed to - I agree there's a hell of a lot of space in an Airbus and the NG's do seem rather cramped. It's the FBW logic - e.g, in Normal Law the FBW can't be overruled by the pilots - it means you can't go past the envelope even if you have to and can leave pilots confused and vulnerable if FBW switches to Alternate, as I'm sure you're aware (e.g AF 447.) Boeing / Bombardier you can override what the FBW wants at any time, and the Bombardier Cseries has sidesticks aswell.
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I can imagine. Probably accounts (partially) for the relatively high amount of hard landings the A320's get subjected to by new FO's. Still fantastic airliners but I have to say I prefer the Boeing 777/787 and Bombardier Cseries FBW logic to the Airbus 320/330/340/350/380 logic.
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Guess the sidestick'd be a little better if it actually gave feedback though, no?
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Why, thank you ever so much for reminding me the 737 is a Boeing, I thought it was a Tupolev. You seemed to be making a blanket statement that a yoke is more immersive than a joystick. That is not the case if you're not flying an aircraft with a sidestick. I only have a yoke and thus don't fly Airbus's etc.
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Unless you're flying an Airbus!
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Check your failures.
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Am I right in thinking that "random failures" doesn't have to be enabled for this, just "service failures"?
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I find my best landings come from using the HUD in the 2D pannel (press "W"), begin a flare at 20 feet and keep it slowly going until touchdown while idling the engines.
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It's normal LOL.
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Checked that several times - GPWS callouts are there, not PM callouts Ben Kolbeck
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One thing I've noticed (a tiny niggle in an amazing product) is that many of the callouts you would expect aren't annunciated, such as 80/100kts, Rotate, Pos. Rate, Gear up, flaps up etc, reversers/spoilers deployed - is this just me or was it meant to be? Many thanks! Ben Kolbeck