06-10-2005, 06:12 AM
The PAX aren't very comfortable with an aircraft taxiing at 40KTS. They'd think that you're taking off on the taxi way!
Too early for takeoff??
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06-10-2005, 06:12 AM
The PAX aren't very comfortable with an aircraft taxiing at 40KTS. They'd think that you're taking off on the taxi way!
06-10-2005, 07:28 AM
Quote:SWAFO wrote: On the other hand, does the average passenger know the difference between taxi way and runway?
07-10-2005, 02:04 AM
Quote:Dutch64 wrote: The runway is black / darker than the taxiway and you can see all these pedestrian crossings and numbers which are for the little kids to cross on their way to school.
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07-10-2005, 03:20 AM
I think the average PAX would know the difference... it's pretty obvious!
07-10-2005, 11:01 AM
I was on a real plane that taxiid at about 80mph at Paris CDG once. It really was very fast. It hadn't slowed down much since landing. I think it was
a 737-200 or something going on the high speed turn off and a straight section and then it braked very heavily.
07-10-2005, 04:16 PM
We do have high speed turnoff areas that we can use, however no (sober) Captain will taxi at anything faster than 25KTS (usually, we use
20KTS as our MAXIMUM TAXI SPEED here at SWA).
07-10-2005, 05:57 PM
At the end of the day we'll sometimes 'taxi' gliders to the hangar. 40 kts is about the right speed, but of course you're still just
airborne 'taxiing' along in ground effect. You can go a long way like that.
08-10-2005, 04:03 PM
Interesting... didn't know that!
10-10-2005, 12:38 AM
LOL....right today on landing at KIAD I did a high speed turn off the runway at 70kts in the 757, no kidding! Surely FS Pax should penalise for this,
but it doesn't so I take advantage! It requires lots of turning coordination and careful braking to turn off at 70kts but its so cool! I am losing it.
10-10-2005, 12:53 AM
Quote:TonyH wrote: Lets me think on how my one friend teaches pilots to "taxi" the bolkov helicopter. You hover just above the ground over the taxiway... then rotate the helicopter thru 360 degrees clockwise... while you do that you move in the direction down the taxiway... when you reach the end of 360 degrees you then rotate thru 360 degree counter clockwise... still moving along the taxiway. You keep on repeating (alternating between clockwise/counter clockwise whilst moving down the runway)... no better way to teach you coordination in the helicopter.
10-10-2005, 03:31 PM
Quote:omarza wrote: I don't really want to be near the chopper during the process... Ouch! Pagir
10-10-2005, 04:45 PM
Why do you need to taxi with a helicopter in the first place? I'm sooooo lost!
10-10-2005, 04:50 PM
I'm still trying to imagine how that taxiing goes anyhow, doing all those 360 turns... Why do it simple if it can be done complicated!
10-10-2005, 04:57 PM
I understant that as a way to develop the ability to making the chopper moving in a direction while the chopper is facing an other?
Pagir
10-10-2005, 05:09 PM
Quote:Interesting... didn't know that! Of course the hangar has to be in the general direction of landing. We make a normal approach and flare, then close the airbrakes and float on down the field. We can't make 360 turns like those chopper jockeys. |
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