As I hope I've made clear, I'm not any kind of expert in economics. It is simply something that caught my attention when I retired so I read a good bit about it. I think it is also clear that I'm a fan of Paul Krugman -- which is where I get most of my information.
Back in late June, Krugman had this to say about Ireland and...
We get a call from the customers, still on the
edge of nowhere, waiting for both workable weather
and an airplane. Today the weather is starting to
clear, and they expect it will be good enough to
fly by this afternoon or tomorrow, so they're
desperate to get the airplane so they can...
The table above comes from OAG seat volume data for December and illustrates the sheer heft the legacies have in NY. The new Delta simply overpowers anyone in sight. Add the new United together and...
Citing growing business between the Istanbul and Atlanta, Turkish announced that its new Istanbul/Washington Dulles flight will be extended to Atlanta, pending approval. Airlines typically find tag...
My mind really doesn't want to acknowledge what I know to be true these days. It just can't be true. We don't have this many idiots running around in America. We just can't. I refuse to believe it.
A Qantas Airlines Boeing 747 jet climbing out of San Francisco on Monday experienced an uncontained failure of the number four engine. That means that the outside right-side...
After weeks and weeks of heat, it was only 63º this morning. That's still warm for me but -- everything being relative -- it felt marvelous. Sunrises are kind of simple without clouds. They're still beautiful.
Here's the official word: Boeing Sets 787 First Delivery Date for Mid-First Quarter 2011 EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Boeing (NYSE: BA) Company said today that it...
Emirates plans to suspend one of its three daily Dubai-Sydney services from the end of October. The carrier's 777-300ER Dubai-Bangkok-Sydney service will be maintained, as will the non-stop A380...
It's Friday and we discover that in this hangar
they celebrate Friday with a barbecue lunch. The
entire extended family is present, and it's a
little confusing because despite the flat maps we
usually work with, where east is east and west is
west, the Earth really is round. Just as...
Use of PAPI or VASI glide slope for landing small single engine aircraft
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
A continuing debate with my CFI concerns staying on the indicated glide slope of the PAPI (or VASI) visual slope indicators. Most airports have these glide slopes set for between 3 degrees and 4 degrees.
A small single engine aircraft (Cessna 172SP) has best L/D glide angle of 10:1 (some say 9:1)...
It's a funny (not funny-ha-ha) thing. If a Congressman gets involved in an aviation incident, it gets attention.
"The Federal Aviation Administration dispatched a safety review team to the Warrenton facility last month after a controller error resulted in a United Airlines flight narrowly missing a collision with a 22-seat Gulfstream business jet. One of the United passengers, Rep. F. James...
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