I got to watch an A380 take off in Auckland the other day. Probably old news for most of you guys but I'd never seen one in action before. It amazes me that that behemoth can even get off the ground.
Lufthansa pilots deal with a dual engine flameout in the A350 simulator. They should have given them the Canadian pilot scenario and not let the engines come back.
Ya, it didn't initially on flight aware, so I went hunting for other sites, and found that! Looks like it is finally underway though. Mega delay! All started because the plane was late coming from Edmonton, which is NG.
Ya, it didn't initially on flight aware, so I went hunting for other sites, and found that! Looks like it is finally underway though. Mega delay! All started because the plane was late coming from Edmonton, which is NG.
It pushed on time (actually early) from YEG but took 1.5 hrs to get to YYC. De-icing perhaps? Or something took much longer than usual because the flight track itself looks normal. Looks like the flight didn't become airborne until after 8.
Showing a 52 minute taxi at YEG... that happened all the time where their central deice gets bogged down.
At YEG a lot of times the US guys like Delta and United would take the absolute bare minimum of fuel not realizing they have to wait 30 min for a big Transat Airbus to deice, then they'd have to go back to the gate for more fuel. Later in the winter it seems the dispatchers finally figure it out and YEG outbounds take a bunch more taxi fuel.
Showing a 52 minute taxi at YEG... that happened all the time where their central deice gets bogged down.
At YEG a lot of times the US guys like Delta and United would take the absolute bare minimum of fuel not realizing they have to wait 30 min for a big Transat Airbus to deice, then they'd have to go back to the gate for more fuel. Later in the winter it seems the dispatchers finally figure it out and YEG outbounds take a bunch more taxi fuel.
This is interesting. How much fuel does it take to taxi? ie is 10 minutes of taxi equal to 10 minutes of flight?
Thanks. So to taxi it takes almost no thrust I assume?
Depends on the type but almost none; the majority of the time waiting for deice is just spent sitting in line waiting at idle thrust anyway, ideally with one engine shut down.
At Calgary's international gates the planes just spray at the gate before starting up which eliminates all of this, except for the 3 or 4 pound per minute burn of the APU. The downside of this is that the gates remain occupied for longer, and the entire apron becomes a glycol swamp as opposed to only the central deice area.
Even though it's not a ton of fuel burned at idle, they have a minimum fuel on their flight plan that they're allowed to line up on the runway with... United mainline in particular has a +/- 75 gallon tolerance on the fuel requests they send so even if the fueler anticipates a big lineup out there there's not a lot he can do to save having to come back. Captains of other companies are known to request half a ton of "black market fuel" from the fueler that the dispatcher probably wouldn't have agreed to.
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I took an Encore flight to Saskatoon recently and the Plus seats looked pretty much the same as the rest of the seats. Considering it was a 1 hour flight and I had no carry-on or luggage, it seemed pointless.