Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Frederick
Kilometers per hour. Not correct, should be in knots, but that is how it was reported. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change deliver

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-03 Thread John Reames
GladOS (refer to Portal/Portal2) Just wait for the AI versions! -- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Jun 2, 2011, at 21:48, Mountain Man wrote: > Peter wrote: >> This report raises another question for me: Why are we flying commercial >> aircraft ca

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-03 Thread andrew strasfogel
"nautical miles per hour per hour." > 'Makes it sound like acceleration, doesn't it? > > Wilton > > - Original Message - From: "Craig" > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:46 PM > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] More info abou

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-03 Thread WILTON
on, doesn't it? Wilton - Original Message - From: "Craig" To: Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:27:03 -0400 "WILTON" wrote: kph? knots per hour? Wilton -

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-02 Thread Craig
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:27:03 -0400 "WILTON" wrote: > kph? knots per hour? > > Wilton > > - Original Message - > From: "Mountain Man" > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:48 PM >

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-02 Thread WILTON
kph? Wilton - Original Message - From: "Mountain Man" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash Peter wrote: This report raises another question for me: Why are we flying

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-02 Thread Mountain Man
Peter wrote: > This report raises another question for me:  Why are we flying commercial > aircraft carrying passengers with a 9 kph safety margin at altitude? > So much for the computers preventing the pilots from going "outside the > flight envelope", eh? Evidently, at altitude, there really

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-02 Thread Mountain Man
Here are some more articles. http://www.flyingmag.com/news/air-france-447-was-it-deep-stall http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1920-full.html Maybe the re-training against stall is the ticket against this type of faux pas. My son was saying the real story on the Hudson river airbus wa

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Streib
A fellow named Tim Vasquez has done some analysis of the flight path and meteorological data from the night of the crash... see this page, images showing the flight track overlaid on satellite weather images are about 1/3 of the way down... if this is correct it looks like they flew right into the

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Streib
"Gerry Archer" writes: > http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,765764,00.html > > Another solution to pitot tube icing would be a reserve pitot tube in > a retracted module that could be raised into the airstream if all > others became inoperative. The particlar pitot tubes used on th

Re: [MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Frederick
This report raises another question for me: Why are we flying commercial aircraft carrying passengers with a 9 kph safety margin at altitude? I know swept wing aircraft stall more easily and have lower speed margins than straight wing aircraft, but less than 1 percent of your airspeed? A

[MBZ] More info about Air France ocean crash

2011-05-31 Thread Gerry Archer
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,765764,00.html Another solution to pitot tube icing would be a reserve pitot tube in a retracted module that could be raised into the airstream if all others became inoperative. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com F