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Post by walterleo on Jan 5, 2017 17:14:13 GMT
To remember the passangers and crew of the crash on 25. Dezember 2016 flying out of Sochi here a sister-ship of the accidented airplane. Peace to their souls! Kind regards Walter
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Post by walterleo on Jan 14, 2017 18:27:23 GMT
A little flying around in the Tu-154B2. Enjoy Walter
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 14, 2017 19:07:51 GMT
God .... I wish I had time to learn, and to fly that thing, BUT, HJG development work intervenes .... and distracts me by necessity Mark C BOG/CO
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Post by walterleo on Jan 15, 2017 12:25:53 GMT
Hi Mark:
If you ever try to fly that beasts start with the B2 model as it has less stytems modeled, is less powerful and so easier to start and easier to fly. For the startup there exists a nice short guide and the AP needs some additional information, this thing is like many soviet things very logical but different. eg.: There are differnt computers in the AP for navigation ("NAVIGAT") and landing ("POSADKI"). If you agree I will send you the quik start guide.
Kind regards
Walter
P.S.: The landing in the pictures was handflown from the outermarker down: the two green lights on the AP "STAB" and the AT "C" are out, but LOC and Glideslope are active on HSI and FD. Could have flown still a little slower on short final.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 15, 2017 12:37:30 GMT
Actually .... I tend to like to start with "thr most complex/difficult" subjects of anything .... and once mastered, then, everything else tends to be "a dream" afterward.
Mark C BOG/CO
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Post by walterleo on Jan 16, 2017 15:32:00 GMT
Hi Mark:
I refered to the problem of time. From my experience in the FT-Forum many interested people gave up after having to start the M for every flight anew as its load-save-the-panel state facility works not very well, the startup process of the M includes many more items (even water for the toilets, deicing of the wastewater, fire suppression ...)as for the B2. The real challanges (AP,navigation systems,compass systems) are still there in the B2. Now flying the B2 again I felt it more pleasant to fly. When I started to learn the Tu-154 for PT-flightshool I was eager to do that with the M-model and I was warned by my "flightinstructors" not to choose the M afterward I saw that they were right.
Kind regards
Walter
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Post by walterleo on Feb 2, 2017 13:38:49 GMT
Hi friends: Regarding the Sochi accident of 25th of dezember 2016 a preliminary report came out. Seems the accident started by a full retraction of the flaps instead of the gear by the copilot. In the Tu-154 the gear and flap lever are nearby on the overhead and the flap lever has no additional safety device only a differnt design. The crew did not notice that intime so altitude was lost and the airplane crashed into the sea. There was also an overload contributing. The captain of the flight was Roman Wolkov, the pilot who saved a Tu-154 in 2011 from heavy dutch roll due to failures of the control systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBY2dCnjr7c Most of the victims were members of the Red Army Choir. To remeber them here their last concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVVgKDR9kMKind regards Walter
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Post by walterleo on Jun 7, 2017 10:52:41 GMT
Hi friends: Now the final report was leaked to the Russian Press and it is still more disturbing: They say that the captain Roman Volkov overworked and exhausted by a too tight flightshedule to and forth Syria lost in the night take off spatial orientation and turned his working aircraft into the sea. It is also noted that his crew was patched together from variuos military units and not trained together in CRM. It is also noted that some prescribed tests of mental and physical fitness for that flight were omitted. Some time ago it was also leaked, that Roman Volkov also had to ferry fighter airplanes to and forth Syria. That could explain also the spatial disorientation as the attitude instruments in the Russian figthers (and other transport airplanes) look and work very differently in comparison with the Tu-154´s. As one can see in the my screenshot the 154 attitude indicator, flight director works similar to a western instrument, the airplane symbol is fixed and the horizon moves up and down and banks. Not so in other Russian attitude instruments, were the airplane symbol banks and the horizon only moves up and down. If one is trained and flies with both indicators one can make under stress a terrible mistake like it happened also in the Crossair flight 498. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossair_Flight_498#CausesKind regards Walter
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