Airlines

Comments

Post a Comment

Linkedin

Popular posts from this blog

The Glass Cockpit Advantage

Image
Developed in the 1970s and implemented in the 1990s. The glass cockpit has a lot of advantages for pilots. Technically referred to as Technically Enhanced Cockpit, it refers to series of flight management computers that can be programmed to fly an aircraft A Glass cockpit for an Airbus A320. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit for a B777. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit for a B737-800. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit is a new technology in an airplane that features series of electronic or digital displays on an LCD screen as opposed to an analogue cockpit that features gauges or dials. Glass cockpits are easier to read and much more accurate than their analogue counterpart. Advantages to Pilots? Though pilots still use the T formation scan to cross check. The glass cockpit makes this checks easier and reduces stress and fatigue on the part of the pilots and it is less likely that a critical gauge will be missed. Again, they have fewer bre...
Read more

Aircraft Deicing

Ice has always being a major factor in flight safety and it has contributed to plane crashes. Ice affects the performance of an aircraft and when there is a build up of it in the wing profile of the plane it increases its drag and causes it it to stall and then crash. Examples are the Air Florida Flight 90 of January 13, 1982 and, American Eagle Flight 4184 and the Air Ontario crash at Dryden Airport in 1989 the list goes on and one. The Federal Aviation Administration has made it mandatory for every aircraft to be deiced before take off whenever there is snow. icing occurs during flights and it is also important that pilots check their if their aircraft is deiced before take off.   H anger Warm Up The best method for aircraft deicing may not be the most practical, especially at smaller airports. If possible, warm the airplane up in a hangar, and, as the ice melts, wipe the wings with a towel or chamois to avoid re-icing when the plane leaves the hangar. Then, apply a thin, pr...
Read more

Airbus A380 flips a Bombardier Challenger 604 upside down in a Freak mid-air Incident

Image
A harrowing freak air accident that has only just been revealed saw an Airbus A380 commercial jetliner flown by Emirates cause a much smaller business jet passing beneath it to flip upside down and plummet thousands of feet. The incident is a sharp reminder of why passengers should always wear their seat belts. According to information obtained by the  Aviation Herald , on the morning of 7 January an Emirates  Airbus A380-800  was flying from Dubai to Sydney. While the aeroplane was en route over the Arabian Sea, roughly about 630 nautical miles southeast of Muscat, a Bombardier  Challenger 604  business jet operated by German carrier MHS Aviation passed by 1,000ft beneath it. A thousand feet might seem like a great distance between two aeroplanes, but the wake turbulence caused by the A380 jetliner was so great that one minute after the airliner passed by above, very high G-force sent the business jet into an uncontrolled roll that turned the aircraft upsi...
Read more