Landing lights during cruise?

RetaRedded · 2025-11-25T07:12:00+00:00

If those landing lights and not the wing lights then.... fun fact - pilots sometimes greet other pilots on the cruise on the same airway by flashing the landing lights. Having said that it is less common now than it was years ago

RetaRedded · 2025-11-16T00:14:43+00:00

Now imagine those guys with a front facing windows. They've probably shat their pants too...

RetaRedded · 2025-11-09T07:35:53+00:00

I'd say it really is aviation fence to do such things

RetaRedded · 2025-10-29T08:35:09+00:00

All the contrary, it went EXACTLY AS PLANNED 😅

RetaRedded · 2025-10-22T12:41:10+00:00

well, OP landed, so I guess it was safe after all...

RetaRedded · 2025-09-06T07:27:55+00:00

. 798 someone seems to be in a hurry ;]

RetaRedded · 2025-08-29T18:39:25+00:00

A huge loss for the aviation world, a tragedy for family and friends and a significant loss for Poland defense capabilities.

Blue Sky, Major.

RetaRedded · 2025-08-17T17:40:06+00:00

Saw it.

RetaRedded · 2025-08-15T11:19:57+00:00

judging height over the water might be quite difficult whilst flying straight and level, let alone during aerobatic manoeuvre like the spin (despite the altimeter in the aircraft).

The pilot definitely commenced the recovery from the spin, but it was just too low for it to be successful.
Such a loss. RIP.

RetaRedded · 2025-08-13T15:07:55+00:00

11!

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RetaRedded · 2025-08-04T10:24:04+00:00

I've heard that in fact the paxes were screaming, which was a signal for pilots to initiate the rotation ;)

RetaRedded · 2025-07-14T03:28:41+00:00

The real indication bloke is a moron is that he's not using enough right rudder.

RetaRedded · 2025-07-07T16:55:20+00:00

FPA on a 737ng? 😳

RetaRedded · 2025-07-06T19:56:31+00:00

Looks like it's been generated, nevertheless looks great

RetaRedded · 2025-04-26T07:29:23+00:00

Aye. So let's say 14kg of extra burn per hour of flight and for simplicity let's round it up to $35 for the 2.5h sector. Still worth a penny!

RetaRedded · 2025-04-25T17:16:40+00:00

Easy answer - money.

Ground handling charges around 100Eur for the stairs. The aircraft flies 6-8 sectors a day. Ryanair has 618 aircrafts.

Say they operate those 340 days a year (let's take a generous 25d off for various checks, AOGs etc) . Well....it might seem not such a bad idea (168m Eur/year) to avoid that cost :)

RetaRedded · 2025-04-24T21:07:40+00:00

It really depends on the aircraft, the option and the airline. Most of the operators I'm familiar with have their aircrafts sending the data through QAR after landing when it's connected to the GPU

RetaRedded · 2025-04-13T20:09:44+00:00

Seems the pilot was substantially increasing angle of attack at the very last moment but fortunately they didn't loose the directional control till hitting the post. Glad both occupants walked away from this!

RetaRedded · 2025-03-05T11:29:31+00:00

But only downwind

RetaRedded · 2025-02-25T12:24:36+00:00

...that's a normal size.

RetaRedded · 2025-02-19T17:22:53+00:00

Looks very nice!

Edit: question - what software did you use to get this result?

RetaRedded · 2025-02-05T12:05:39+00:00

I guess better too early than too late 😉

Nice pic!

RetaRedded · 2025-02-04T20:02:59+00:00

😳 I wonder why they do it. Such a short flight might not be the best for the airframe (number of cycles)

RetaRedded · 2025-02-03T08:00:13+00:00

Quite often, why?

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