Halifax Tar
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Thats not my experience.
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Thats not my experience.
Halifax Tar
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I travel a lot for work. Delta and Air Canada are generally really good (on time, no bag lost), Westjet is okay, United and American are pure garbage.
My last flight on United a few years ago was the actual last flight I would ever take with them. I vowed never to fly that airline again…
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…almost as bad as Etihad or Singapore…oh wait, never mind.
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Connecting on AC in LAX after arriving on Singapore, chatting with the FA overnight because my sleep cycle was completely wrong, and mentioned that I had just come off of a Singapore flight. "Oh, they're so much better than us!"
markppcli
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Agree to disagree. I have much much better experiences flying in the US than in Canada.
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Interesting - I thought AOST was intended to be a Reserve-only trade.
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No- that was the first step.
Jarnhamar
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Have you ever piloted one of those huge jet?
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When I was doing Test Pilot training, an A380 on its production test flight.
Jarnhamar
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That's awesome. When planes are that big do the electronics do most of the flying or does it still require alot of input from the pilot?
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The Airbus mentality (which may have changed) is that the electronics do everything.
The old Boeing mentality (which definitely has changed) is that the pilot does the flying.
In modern airliners and biz jets, most of the flying is done with the autopilot engaged. All take offs and the vast majority of landings will be hand flown. For auto land, the aircraft must be equipped, as well as the airport.
The pilot can decide if they want to hand fly for a while, or can engage the autopilot after a few hundred feet.
Once autopilot is engaged, the pilot "manages" the automation. Changes to altitude or ATC re-routing have to be entered into the Flight Management System (FMS) and then"executed" by the crew.
The newest generation of FMS can have ATC upload route / altitude instructions etc, but the pilots still need to review and accept the changes, before telling the system to make it happen.
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The new Boeing mentality is that it's more important for techs on the production line to know the current stock price than to properly assemble the plane.
www.theatlantic.com
Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul?
www.theatlantic.com
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If by “new” you mean “since the mid-90s when McDonnell Douglas merged with them”, then yes.The new Boeing mentality is that it's more important for techs on the production line to know the current stock price than to properly assemble the plane.
Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul?
That’s pretty cool. How many individual types did you get to fly on that?
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