It’s time for an additional Questions and Solutions session. I began this collection a couple of years again, when a reader requested if there was a solution to pose aviation questions exterior of particular posts. I’d love for this to turn into a extra common characteristic however for that I want extra questions!
The format is straightforward: put up your query within the feedback of any put up. If you already know the reply to another person’s query, reply within the remark. You don’t must be a pilot or work in aviation to reply however please keep on with what you truly know quite than giving it a finest guess.
We’ll begin with me this week. In A Group of Pissed-Off Hornets I complained that the NTSB didn’t make any suggestions for flight colleges to guard their college students from unhealthy instruction. On Bluesky, inclined2fly, who has labored for each the NTSB and the FAA, defined the scenario to me.
That was the irritating a part of the NTSB. All I might do was write a report and a suggestion, neither of which might make a distinction. Common Aviation was not a precedence.
Nothing the FAA can do until it’s an accredited college.
If the NTSB made a suggestion, the FAA couldn’t implement it with out altering Half 61. On the FAA, I had no authority over Half 61 colleges, solely particular person certificates holders. Half 141 is a unique story. In my view, different international locations do it higher (EU, Canada, Australia are some).
Within the US, an individual can get a CFI cert and educate from day one with no supervision. They don’t need to be employed by a flight college. The one time the FAA would take a look at them is for a criticism, incident/accident. Half 141 colleges need to be FAA accredited, so there’s some oversight. Half 61 has none.
The top result’s that the wrongful demise swimsuit is de facto the one solution to have an effect on significant change for these kind of systemic points at American flight colleges. I had not understood the interactions (and I can imagine that working on the NTSB may be extraordinarily irritating if you wish to make significant change).
On the identical article, Peter requested:
Did this teacher have an affordable variety of flying hours? To the non-flyer 447 and 20 doesn’t look like very many hours of expertise earlier than then utilizing that have to show others.
Primarily based on the feedback from inclined2fly, I believe it is sensible to learn the way many hours a flight teacher has earlier than going out with her or him. Personally, I’d need somebody who was affected person and loved instructing, quite than simply making an attempt to get hours in rapidly in order that they’ll transfer on to the following factor. However how a lot is sufficient?
AB has a query I’ve by no means actually considered.
Why would the fuselage of a B-52 be rippled, however not a business airliner?
He’s obtained a guess however I’d love to listen to from one in every of you as to the logic behind this!
This one is from my mom and I used to be shocked that I didn’t know the reply:
Why do you say {that a} pilot who’s a passenger is “deadheading” ?
Particularly, she’s concerned with the place the time period got here from.
Georgina desires to know extra about Russian GPS interference:
I’m curious in regards to the GPS jamming occurring at northern European airports. How does that truly work, and the way do airports and airways work round it?
And eventually from JD:
Why do heavier plane have the next airspeed limitations?
That is about manoeuvring velocity, which one shouldn’t exceed due to the chance of harm to the plane construction. I didn’t know that heavier plane did permit for increased manoeuvring speeds and I’ve by no means been good at aerodynamics1, so I’m undoubtedly not the individual to reply this one.
[1] I not imagine that planes are held aloft by faeries however in relation to helicopters I’m nonetheless undecided.
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