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[Londonrake]

Come on Paphitis. Don’t spoil a good windup.

I just had a sim check 2 weeks ago. 8 hours in the sim, over 2 days.

They are not fun. The only good thing about them is a sense of accomplishment when walking out of the damn thing on day 2, and the dinner and beers with your sim mate afterwards.

Lucky for me, I was given a pass on Day 1 and Day 2 just involved some non-standard and unscripted training time. My sim mate though, wasn't as fortunate but also passed on his second attempt.

We used to do a couple of 4 hour sim "rides" each week. A 13 man crew fighting WW3. The 3 front end guys would be in a detached nose section but connected electronically to the back. To them it would seem like the actual aircraft. That part was "dynamic". Hydraulically driven to simulate aircraft manoeuvres. It was a lot tougher than the real thing most of the time and you came out feeling like you'd been put through a wringer.

If you were after a crew, or personal Cat upgrade the Group Standards Unit guys would man the front desk and throw the kitchen sink at you. They also did an annual check on each crew. Ahh, the good ole days!

[Paphitis]

Come on Paphitis. Don’t spoil a good windup.

I just had a sim check 2 weeks ago. 8 hours in the sim, over 2 days.

They are not fun. The only good thing about them is a sense of accomplishment when walking out of the damn thing on day 2, and the dinner and beers with your sim mate afterwards.

Lucky for me, I was given a pass on Day 1 and Day 2 just involved some non-standard and unscripted training time. My sim mate though, wasn't as fortunate but also passed on his second attempt.

We used to do a couple of 4 hour sim "rides" each week. A 13 man crew fighting WW3. The 3 front end guys would be in a detached nose section but connected electronically to the back. To them it would seem like the actual aircraft. That part was "dynamic". Hydraulically driven to simulate aircraft manoeuvres. It was a lot tougher than the real thing most of the time and you came out feeling like you'd been put through a wringer.

If you were after a crew, or personal Cat upgrade the Group Standards Unit guys would man the front desk and throw the kitchen sink at you. They also did an annual check on each crew. Ahh, the good ole days!

That's why we call them the "house of horrors".

Everything the real world sees in the movies and only reads about or sees an episode of air crash investigations, happens in the house of horrors (sim). And these are simulators with full motion and almost as expensive as the real thing too.

And the turbulence is always dialed to the max as well.

Just for that added ambience. All designed to overload you to your limits to see what you will do.

And as for Autopilot. The only damn time you get to use an autopilot on when you depart Newark on a SID because at 300FT, you are in the cloud, and at 500FT, you get an engine failure. Bloody bastards!

So its straight into memory items, then non memory FCOM checklists, then it's a PAN PAN for vectoring back to the ILS for an approach and of course, its a Missed approach because you don't become visual at the minima, and therefore its a divert to Dulles.

[repulsewarrior]

...i didn't watch all 5 hours, but enjoy.

[Londonrake]

Families of Boeing 737 Max crash victims seek unlawful killing verdict https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66124849

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[Kikapu]

INSIDER

Federal authorities have been probing roughly 5,000 pilots suspected of withholding major health issues that could imperil their ability to fly safely, report says

John L. Dorman
Sun, August 27, 2023, 4:33 PM GMT

Veterans Affairs investigators discovered that thousands of American pilots may have falsified their medical history.sharrocks/Getty Images
Federal officials are probing roughly 5,000 pilots suspected of withholding major health issues, per The Washington Post.

Veterans Affairs investigators stumbled on the health record inconsistencies over two years ago.

Some veterans who have been temporarily grounded feel as though they're being singled out.

Federal authorities have been probing roughly 5,000 pilots who officials believe may have falsified their medical records to hide that they were earning benefits for significant health issues that could imperil their ability to fly safely, The Washington Post reported.

The pilots who have had their records examined are military veterans who informed the Federal Aviation Administration that they were suitable to fly, but didn't disclose that they were also receiving veterans benefits for various disabilities that could prevent them from effectively sitting in a pilot's seat.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-auth ... 40113.html

[repulsewarrior]

...for their heavy lift capacities they appeal to me; futuristically i see so many practical uses.

[Lordo]

I would have liked to see some experimentation to see what length ship and how much gas can lift 1 ton. I cannot see how 380 odd meter of a ship can lift 500 tones. That means each meter section can lift more than 1 ton. I suspect not.

Wind power is the way to go. Especially on water. Mankind has got stuck on sails, there is better ways.

Enjoy

[repulsewarrior]

...it depends on the circumference, as much as length.

Such ships already fly, yet advancements in this technology do have far to go.

[Londonrake]

...it depends on the circumference, as much as length.

Said the Actress to the Bishop.

Sorry.

[Lordo]

...it depends on the circumference, as much as length.

Such ships already fly, yet advancements in this technology do have far to go.

It will be quicker and more realistic to design Hydrogen engine where the by-product is water.
Food for thought.

1 cubic meter of Hydrogen will lift 1 Kg. You will need 500,000 cubic meters of Hydrogen.