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Safe trip, and enjoy the food!
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I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
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All right!!!!!! Fingers crossed for you....!
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We responded as part of mutual aid to that Asiana accident at SFO along with two of our other bases, three aircraft total. Only one helicopter took any patients. We and one other were released, which turned out to be a good thing. From a pilot standpoint, it was readily evident that the accident was pilot error all the way. I could plainly see that by the debris distribution as I flew by the accident scene to land on the parallel taxiway to 28R.
The view from where I was parked. That United 747 had a hell of a view. They were lucky nothing hit them.
Us, taken from our partner's aircraft.
The view from where I was parked. That United 747 had a hell of a view. They were lucky nothing hit them.
Us, taken from our partner's aircraft.
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Once again thunderstorms will roll in this afternoon giving us the usual 1/2" - 1" rainfall. The same pattern has been going on for three weeks. I'm wondering how it would work to spray down the road bike with simple green before the ride to clean up the bike before tomorrow's crit?
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Right on schedule for 5:00 PM making today the 20th consecutive day with rain.
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Good memories, brought up by an awful incident.
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Yes he is!
The key to low airspeed is power. Get some power on. Now. The engines the triple seven uses, the one that crashed, were high bypass turbofans made by Pratt and Whitney (others use GE's and Rolls Royce). They have an enormous fan on the front of them that is driven by a dedicated power turbine(s). From what I understand, the engines were at idle thrust. Turbine engines by nature are slow to accelerate from idle, not like a recip. Those big motors spool up even slower with all that fan mass to get spinning. The practice is to "stand the throttles up" - move them halfway up the quadrant and wait for the engines to catch up - then advance the rest of the way. That can take several seconds. By the time the cockpit crew recognized the low airspeed condition, as well as the fact that they were way below the glideslope, they had no time left for the engines to give them go around power. Sink rate got them, too. It was a classic accident.
The key to low airspeed is power. Get some power on. Now. The engines the triple seven uses, the one that crashed, were high bypass turbofans made by Pratt and Whitney (others use GE's and Rolls Royce). They have an enormous fan on the front of them that is driven by a dedicated power turbine(s). From what I understand, the engines were at idle thrust. Turbine engines by nature are slow to accelerate from idle, not like a recip. Those big motors spool up even slower with all that fan mass to get spinning. The practice is to "stand the throttles up" - move them halfway up the quadrant and wait for the engines to catch up - then advance the rest of the way. That can take several seconds. By the time the cockpit crew recognized the low airspeed condition, as well as the fact that they were way below the glideslope, they had no time left for the engines to give them go around power. Sink rate got them, too. It was a classic accident.
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So, for a landlubber like me, it's sort of like turbo lag. The power takes time to spool up, and they didn't have enough time.
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That's EXACTLY what it's like, and yes, that's it.
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First kinda job offer today. I had questions after the call, and they had closed up shop for the day, so I'll hopefully get stuff clarified tomorrow morning. If it works out, I'll be in Lebanon (the one next to Israel) by the end of the month.
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OMG....be careful!
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Good luck to all in the job dept. My B-I-N just got hired on at one of the big cellular providers...took 6 weeks of back and forth because of (gasp) a moving violation on his DMV report.
Sara and I were both "pilot error" right after the 777 hit. Impact marks were pretty clear that it was a short landing; and short of some giant systemic failure that's a pretty hard thing to do these days in a jetliner. While I was pretty sad at two teenagers dying it's hard not to be amazed at such a low fatality rate in a crash like this.
A huge part of it was luck (a few feet shorter and there would have been bits all over the place) but the FAA is pretty active on the design side regulations. I've seen more than a few "after" non-regulated aircraft that crashed. Much smaller pieces.
Part of me wants it to come out that it was caused by some cell phone user ignoring the switch off instructions.
I kid. Sort of.
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Thought I would share the Facebook post we just put up, from TallWife. Her mother passed away this morning, and we head for New Orleans Saturday. It was wonderful knowing my Mother In Law, and we are all glad she didn't endure years of failed health. Not long ago, she was keen and vigorous. May we all be as happy as she was, for as long, then pass as peacefully.
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My Momma loved the wide open spaces and the wildlife of the West, spending much of her time when here with us walking and hiking. I have that in me, too, so I became fascinated by the owl family raising its young in the trees, and the neighbor's shed, just over our fence. I researched to learn they were Barn Owls, and I set aside some of my gardening to observe them each evening at dusk. I even let the grass grow long to encourage the mouse population and provide them with ample food. They have prospered, and we fall asleep each night to the sound of their soft screeching.
Yet when I mentioned "my owls" to a Navajo friend, she had a very subdued reaction, letting me know that in Navajo folklore, owls are harbingers of death. Yesterday, they seemed to me to be true symbols of life, and of the West, when they circled my yard several times as I stared in admiration. But my friend, the Navajo, was just as right as I was. This morning my dear mother died a gentle death. She would have loved knowing her passing was heralded by a family of owls. She would have smiled one those smiles that lit up the lives of so many of us who knew her. My mother lived a full life, enriching those around her. We will miss her, but that will be our only pain, because Momma died happy, just as she lived.
We will continue to enjoy our owls, and remember our mother.
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My Momma loved the wide open spaces and the wildlife of the West, spending much of her time when here with us walking and hiking. I have that in me, too, so I became fascinated by the owl family raising its young in the trees, and the neighbor's shed, just over our fence. I researched to learn they were Barn Owls, and I set aside some of my gardening to observe them each evening at dusk. I even let the grass grow long to encourage the mouse population and provide them with ample food. They have prospered, and we fall asleep each night to the sound of their soft screeching.
Yet when I mentioned "my owls" to a Navajo friend, she had a very subdued reaction, letting me know that in Navajo folklore, owls are harbingers of death. Yesterday, they seemed to me to be true symbols of life, and of the West, when they circled my yard several times as I stared in admiration. But my friend, the Navajo, was just as right as I was. This morning my dear mother died a gentle death. She would have loved knowing her passing was heralded by a family of owls. She would have smiled one those smiles that lit up the lives of so many of us who knew her. My mother lived a full life, enriching those around her. We will miss her, but that will be our only pain, because Momma died happy, just as she lived.
We will continue to enjoy our owls, and remember our mother.
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AzT - My thoughts and prayers go out to your wife and her family. It sounds like your mother-in-law was a woman to celebrate!
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Nah, research, cube rat. A look inside my world, from someone who's definitely an insider:
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