757 landing field length:1494m
A320 landing field length:1442m

747 landing field length:2072m
A340 landing field length:1855m

Is there something wrong with Boeing 😀 ?

Sorry couldnot resit

Strange, TAROM uses the 737-700/800 series and now they are going to add our Mini busses. That doesn’ t look like a very efficient move. But I always enjoy the side of more Airbusses, so keep them coming.

Just noticed, I joined this forum in december 1999. I think it was the summer f that year, but the forum has pushed trew the y2k mark 😀 .

Is a navigator or WSO a fully qualified pilot? If so then a navigator must have additional training after becomming current on an aircraft. I know in The Netherlands, in a AH-64 both of them are pilots and the senior one is not flying the aircraft. But in the case of tactical aircraft, like the Tornado, I don’ t think the navigator is a qualified pilot at all. But please correct me if I am wrong.

Jokes, jokes so many jokes 😎 .

Re: G-force question

Originally posted by GDL
Near my place there is a new amusement ride called the ‘Vomitron’. It has a large arm that spins around and around, with two cages at each end of the arm for two passengers each. It is very much like a centrifuge that they use for pilot training.

There is a lot of screaming when this thing runs, and it does indeed live up to it’s name and make people sick.

My question is this: What kind of g’s would you be pulling in this thing?

My estimates put the cages at the end of the spinning arm to be travelling at about 90km/h.

Is there a special formula for centrifuge g calculation?

About 4G I guess, everything above five is painfull and dangerous for John and Jane Do 😎 .

As I understand it

V1 is when you pull back on the stick
V2 is when you are airborne

Six to seven seconds I mean that is a long time. Why did it take that long, I mean if I was a pilot and the airplane didnot respond as predicted and I had the oppertunity I would stop instead of risking the people and the plane. So why did they act like they did? Could a professional shed some light on this subject.