This is Kennedy Steve!
He has „fan“ videos on youtube like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9btI_NuGc

Ever flown into Tegucigalpa?
I'm quite the aviation enthusiast, but did not look up the airport. The approach had me in awe trying to explain my gf how cool it was.

As soon as we got on land I Googled it, only to find out it was one of the most dangerous in the world as far as commercial airliners are concerned. Really cool stuff.

Long time since I posted a question but here is one...

The small incident yesterday where the DL 717 lost part of the engine 2 cover (see here)--

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/aviati...rnd/index.html

(a) From a maintenance perspective, I thought it would be pretty hard for a cover to 'fly by' due to weather conditions?
(b) In theory, assuming that the cover would not have 'pinched' the fuselage (which it did) is there any concern for the normal operation of the engine simply without the external cover?

Glad everyone is okay (I know it's a different category than the M88/90, but the structure/maintenance is very similar).

PS- Sorry to hear that the MD-90s are on a longterm (aka 5 year) retirement plan!

I know Kennedy Steve personally and he's a standup guy!

Does Steve know that there are many people out here---me included----who get a kick out of his videos?

He's funny and smart and seems like a god dude.

I found this youtube channel that explains a few aviation concepts. like why are plane windows round?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXGRPMD-GQ

or how do winglets work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqXf6t7e-w

or why airplane wings are angled backwards?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFpLnPpDtY

hope he is producing more videos soon!

I haven't been to New York since my last flight (end of January). Looking forward to getting back.

This kind of turbulence is usually associated with thunderstorms, which are avoidable. There is also such a thing as clear air turbulence, which is not detectable. All pilots have experienced clear air turbulence, but I've never had a prolonged encountered with anything beyond moderate turbulence, which may cause drinks on your tray table to spill but it's not going to injure anyone with their seat belt on. Clear air turbulence is most often caused by the jet stream creating instability in the upper atmosphere. It can often be remedied by climbing or descending a few thousand feet.

I don't have enough information to know if someone screwed up in the case you cite, but it's unlikely there would be action against the pilots. I don't think I've ever heard of action being brought against pilots for a turbulence encounter.

I've heard him many times at JFK and I always feel like we're in good hands with him.

I have never had the pleasure of flying into this airport. I think we currently use the 737 for service in there. It is perhaps the most demanding approach in our system from what I've heard. Tegucigalpa is one of our Special Qualification airports, which just means that the company provides material for familiarization with the airport that crews are required to have reviewed within six months of flying there.

Our Jeppesen charts have special pages for each airports which detail such things as Ops frequencies, local de-ice procedures and other nice-to-know or need-to-know information for that airport. In the days when we carried paper charts, these pages were colored green and are still referred to as "green pages" even though we now carry electronic versions which have no color. In the Jeppesen numbering scheme, these are the "10-7" pages (10-7A, 10-7B, etc, with as many as that particular airport requires).

Here are some excerpts I've pulled from the Tegucigalpa green pages:

This is an incredible story and I can't imagine how it could happen. But the good news is that the engine will operate just fine without the cowling. I wish I had more to contribute on this story, but I'm at a loss.

Have you heard about the movie they are making about Sully? Tom Hanks as Sully and Eastwood directing, and I read that the movie focuses on the not well known investigation that tried to determine if Sully made an error in choosing to land in the Hudson rather than at the airport.

I read recently that T-tailed aircraft like your MD-88/90 are susceptible to something called "deep stall". Is that a term you use, and if so is it something you specifically train for?

(Hope you are continuing to recover well )

W,

Good to see you posting here, hope things are progressing well on the health/recovery front.

Hi W0X0F,

How bad is the smell in the cabin after a 15-hour long haul flight? I picture the doors opening and a wave of funk inundating the poor bastards in the jet bridge.

"Why Planes Crash: Human Error" is on MSNBC right now. Protip: don't watch if you have ever worried about anything

Cliffnotes: lol humans

Other pro-tip, Don't read "Field Guide to Human Error" by Sydney Dekker while on a plane. Great book though to anyone in management.

No, I haven't heard about this movie. I doubt I'll watch it and not because I'm afraid they'll get the flying stuff wrong (I'm going to assume that Sully will be a technical advisor), but I just don't like this genre of film, i.e. based on a true story that is going to have a climactic scene we all know about. Most of the film is the build-up to the climax (obv) and this means creating a human interest story about all the crew and passengers. Bleh! Not interested.

I think I know what you're talking about, but you won't see that term in any of our training materials for the 88/90. All of our stall recognition and avoidance training stresses recovery before the stall becomes fully developed.

The 88 and 90 have both been engineered (in different ways for each type, oddly enough) to automatically provide extra nose down elevator in the case of a developed stall. But this is transparent to the pilot and in no way changes the recovery technique used.

Did you watch Apollo 13?

Thanks for the good wishes. I have a CAT scan this Thursday. If that's clear, I'll be starting the ball rolling on getting back to work.

I've never noticed a lingering effect from a normal flight. It's different, of course, if someone gets air sick. I once had a J-32 awash in vomit after a bumpy, hot mid-summer flight. And when I saw awash, I'm not exaggerating. Several passengers vomited into the aisle.

Saudi airlines used to have a 747 that flew into Dulles airport and they always parked it with all of the doors open. That's about 12 doors just sitting open to air out the plane. The story was that middle easterners (the majority of their pax) had different ideas about personal hygiene.

OK, you got me. I did watch it and I did enjoy it. But...I wasn't nearly as aware of what actually happened there.

How long would they be parked? They may just want to keep the air flowing through it and keep it from turning into an oven while they turn it around. I fly through LAX a lot and there are often Qantas heavies parked out on the west end of the airport (I am guessing they have a really long turnaround time to make the flights work logistically) and they always have all the doors opened unless it's raining.

They did this regardless of the temperature, throughout the year.