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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:07:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Amazing that somebody still flies a -200! There is some charter company that flies into LEX, to haul UK's football and basketball teams around, that uses the 737-200. ETA- its Ameristar |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:08:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Luckily, I have no clue. We can assume Every takeoff is derated in that old warbird though.  |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:08:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That is an OLD 737 |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:13:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m guessing it was way more than 600 pounds overweight. Probably a missing zero. This. Like a Captain said one time when we were counting kids to make legal takeoff weight, “Hell, there’s a 1000 pounds of hair and breadcrumbs on this plane”. Unless a plane is new or just been weighed, you have no idea what it really weighs. “Average passenger weight” is total horseshit. Measure it with a micrometer. Mark it with a pencil. Cut it with an axe. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:14:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Amazing that somebody still flies a -200! South America and Central America. More likely the culprit is little to no maintenance and what was supposed to be done was pencil-whipped. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:22:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgezyQm4_eoFor the seasoned 737 pilots here, what's going on when the PNF puts the landing gear handle in what looks like a middle position, is it because that the 200 series didn't have main gear doors ? Boeing-ism. The 767/757 is like that. The gear handle in the up position runs the hydraulics to retract the gear and close the doors and uplocks). The neutral position turns off the hydraulics to the gear because it’s not needed. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:26:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking the same thing. And who runs a five person crew on a cargo bird? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Amazing that somebody still flies a -200! I was thinking the same thing. And who runs a five person crew on a cargo bird? Depending on the cargo, a bird in Columbia likely has some sort of traveling security. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:30:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Like a Captain said one time when we were counting kids to make legal takeoff weight, “Hell, there’s a 1000 pounds of hair and breadcrumbs on this plane”. Unless a plane is new or just been weighed, you have no idea what it really weighs. “Average passenger weight” is total horseshit. Measure it with a micrometer. Mark it with a pencil. Cut it with an axe. "1000 pounds of hair and breadcrumbs...." Let me guess, that Captain wore a black uniform with gold wings? |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 1:30:47 PM EDT
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Looks how small the engines are.
 
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Posted: 4/11/2023 2:12:06 PM EDT
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He should have tossed out a few kilos.
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Posted: 4/11/2023 4:24:30 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Looks how small the engines are. https://static1.simpleflyingimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Aerosucre_Boeing_737-200_Dallimonti.jpeg https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/559E/production/_122081912_gettyimages-1233530094.jpg[/quote That 200 can go where the new one cannot go.  It is a good bush plane. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 4:28:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Depending on the cargo, a bird in Columbia likely has some sort of traveling security. The C-17s had Ravens on board every time they came into Colombia when we were there, and that was a freaking military base...if that tells you anything. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 4:33:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably won't get a whole lot older if they keep doing that. Neither will the pilots. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That is an OLD 737 My Dad, who spent almost 60 years in military and commercial aviation used to say; “I know old Pilots and bold Pilots but I don’t know any old, bold Pilots”. |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 4:53:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boeing-ism. The 767/757 is like that. The gear handle in the up position runs the hydraulics to retract the gear and close the doors and uplocks). The neutral position turns off the hydraulics to the gear because it’s not needed. The 747-400 has the off position too, but the new -8 does not. You have to be careful because we fly both and it's easy to act like Pavlov's dogs... |
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Posted: 4/11/2023 5:03:43 PM EDT
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If your not skimming the trees you are light and losing money. Plenty of fudge room in those max load numbers. As a matter of fact, in third world countries most of these numbers are recommendations and not anything absolute.
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Posted: 4/11/2023 5:05:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "1000 pounds of hair and breadcrumbs...." Let me guess, that Captain wore a black uniform with gold wings? Yep. We all did… Leaving CPH for JFK. |
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