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This joke goes back to at least the 727, if not farther. Kind of pathetic that it wound up as a lawsuit.

Sorry I should have been more precise. It is in Normal Law on the takeoff roll, but in Ground Mode, which is under Normal Law. The end result is the same as direct law. Sidestick controls flight control deflection proportionally. After liftoff, over a period of about 5sec, it transitions from...

On the ground during the takeoff roll, the flight controls are in Direct Law. Flight control deflection is proportional to stick deflection. After getting airborne, over a period of about 5 seconds (I'd have to look it up), it goes to Normal Law. The airplane is now pitch and roll stable...

hah good point! Well there's no reason they (KTOL) can't make it work, but yeah I wouldn't bother going to a "major" airport if I didn't need to. The whole point of flying GA is to avoid crap like this.

What's drama here? The controller screwed up and should have issued a LAHSO to the Cessna and the the Cessna should have got off the runway ASAP anyway.

Over the last year, about one landing every 6hrs. Swapping with another pilot does that. Better than it used to be. When flying long haul, it was one landing about every 80 hours. And that’s considered frequent by some!

Only been flying in the domestic system for a year now since 117 went into effect. It seems ok domestically (though 10hrs is still too short), but it's a disaster for the long haul flying. Our NRT trip is 26:xx and is a 3 day. The PEK is a 27:xx and is a four day. The PEK is much more...

It most certainly did. 117 turned PVG and PEK into four days instead of three days. Now granted, it's still 18 days off a month, but when you sit down and realize you're sitting China an extra month a year (36 days) for zero pay, it kind of ****es you off. I switched over to the bus about a...

FWIW the United FO was released with no charges. That didn't make much of a headline, though.

My job is to make sure it's hours of sheer boredom and the passengers wanting to say thank you for a boring flight.

I dunno about the pay thing. I was leery at first, but the pay jump from WBFO to NBCA has been close to six figures. Definitely work more for it. It’s extremely tough to beat the dollars per day efficiency of the WB trips. Nature of the long haul flying.

When every approach for years is a vector to an ILS I can see his situation. Truth be told for anyone that has even remotely kept his skin in the game he will be ok. It’s the ones that check out completely in the back seat that are the issue. Not all of them, of course, but some. Have to...

Nah.. this ain't the early 70s anymore... :D

Pretty much. Makes me wonder why I gave up the triple to go fly domestic again.

Been doing it for 20 years now with overnights anywhere from Toledo to Hong Kong. Where you work and the equipment you are one really direct what kind of experience you have. Flying for the regionals, expect several legs a day and staying at budget hotels. You are also probably with younger...

Kent, First off.. pleasure to "meet" you so to speak. Your videos over the years have been great. If I may, I'd like to post this one of yours to show what it's like to do an international flight. It's pretty spot on, right down to cleaning up the water from the showers that don't have full...

Kick the 24yr old FA from the night before out of the bed before heading off to the airport with the FO. Pick up a new set of FAs and head to some wild, exotic destination for a 36hr layover where the scotch and bikinis flow freely. Or something like that.

Probably not... shame, too. She was a good flying airplane.

I can't speak for the dive of the A321 out of FL310, but the 320 into the trees had nothing to do with a fault in the design, but the failure of the pilots do fly the plane as designed. They flew that approach over the grass runway to demonstrate the plane's alpha floor function, which occurs...

Good lord who gives a sh*t? Y'all are doing a hell of a job reinforcing stereotypes of pilots.