BluSky Services is organising a Performance Based Navigation (PBN) workshop, to be held in Budapest, Hungary on 17-18 November 2009. The event will be hosted by HungaroControl and will take place at their premises. Participation in the workshop is free. As is well known, both IATA and CANSO have expressed their support for PBN and… Continue reading Performance Based Navigation Workshop, Budapest 17-18 November 2009
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Do you really understand how your trim works?
Many do not, and why it matters. Picture yourself in a conventional airliner, say a 737 of any generation. You have to do a low level go-around, perhaps because your fail passive Cat lll has just failed, er, passively. You apply GA thrust, and the aircraft pitches up. If you are low enough, you may… Continue reading Do you really understand how your trim works?
Fly on the right – A mid air mitigation
On 29 September 2006, A GOL B737-800 and a private Embraer Legacy business jet collided at FL360 some 200 miles north of Brasilia, over the Amazon Jungle. The Embraer’s left winglet hit the 737’s left wing, and the 737 crashed killing all on board. The Embraer was luckier, and made a successful emergency landing at the Cachimbo air base.
Quote of August 2009
Go, sir, gallop, and don’t forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time. Napoleon Bonaparte
Same time, same place, same level… 2.
Air traffic controllers were required to take a wide variety of subjects while in training. These ranged from basic electronics to radar vectoring procedures, and controllers, like most other students, tended to categorize these subjects, considering them variously interesting, boring, needless or just a plain drag.
SESAR's Palace
No, there is no spelling mistake in the title… we are not talking about that famous (or infamous) institution in Las Vegas. The title of this section of the blog and the first article in it comes from the name affectionately given to the rather somber office building in Blagnac outside Toulouse which used to… Continue reading SESAR's Palace
The CFMU – Valuable asset or problem for the future?
Few people remember the days of horrendous delays in Europe caused by the explosive growth of demand in the latter part of the 70s and early 80s. States tried to cope with the problem as best they could but the individual efforts made things worse as often as they helped in resolving the logjam
Towards a net-centric system
In the numerous descriptions of the future air traffic management system, the term “net-centric” appears over and over. What does net-centric really mean and how will such a system improve safety and flight efficiency? Watch this space for a forthcoming post on this fascinating subject, the latest in our series “Buzzwords explained”.
Built-in obsolescence
I have often wondered what it must feel like to buy yourself an aircraft. Not a small propeller bird but something bigger, like a Gulfstream or a Boeing Business Jet. While thinking big, why not a 747? One of the attractive aspects of buying a big aircraft is the fact that they stay current for such a long time!
C-17s on peace mission
For those of us who worked at Ferihegy Airport in the 60s and 70s, military service was a simplified affair. Just one month of ground-pounder training (as opposed to the two years meted out on the less fortunate) where after we went back to our civilian jobs of, in our case, controlling aircraft. The assumption was that if NATO came invading Lake Balaton and the Great Hungarian Plain, we would be doing the same job, albeit in uniform…