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About LinkBacksSo I was hanging out in my office, drinking my tea, and I thought I'd send you a picture... Bucket list item checked!
So I was hanging out in my office, drinking my tea, and I thought I'd send you a picture... Bucket list item checked!
Have you conducted a proper DSE assessment of your workstation? It looks a little low...
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Where are the gun sights & firing triggers
Wait did you actually get to fly a Dreamlifter?
TeePee (09-03-2019)
Yes!!
Wait did you actually get to fly a Dreamlifter?
The back fell off!
Human for scale:
Cargo for the day. A couple of 787 nose sections.
Yes I flew it, and landed it, by hand. It flies like any other large block of flats! Actually very smooth. Boeing did a nice job..
I flew and landed planes by hand as a kid. Mostly made of paper. I also flew and crashed the Starship Enterprise and anything else that could accidentally end up in a vacuum cleaner.
Where's the sat nav?
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TeePee (09-03-2019)
We'll now that's an easy one... The inboard display on each side (displaying 267 at the top) on each side is the Navigation Display, showing the position and active route. That position comes from a Flight Management Computer that uses GPS as it's primary source of position information... There are actually two GPS receivers that are compared for accuracy. If they both fail, it can triangulate it's position using ground based navigational aids. VOR/VOR or DME/DME. Out of range of ground based navigation, over the oceans, it can also calculate it's position based on three Inertial Reference Units, although accuracy declines. There's a lot more depth to this story, since the 747 was designed before GPS existed.Where's the sat nav?
One of the drivers for the development of GPS was to provide an accurate update for ballistic missile carrying submarines (SSBN) that use inertial navigation systems to determine their position while remaining submerged for long periods. The degradation in positional accuracy can be predicted and compensated for to some degree, but prior to GPS the only way of getting real time position information was LORAN or later, OMEGA, which was a long wave positioning system. There was an earlier satellite based navigation system (TRANSIT, IIRC) but it didn’t give continuous coverage because the satellites were in low earth orbit.
Last edited by peterb; 09-03-2019 at 02:53 PM. Reason: Correct auto correct (thank you Jonathon!)
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Q: why does the right hand console show the pink inclination(?) lines while the left hand one not have them? Shouldn't they show the same thing?
Also what is the thumbswitch on the top of the joystick for? I'm guessing it's not to skip tracks on the soundsystem?
TeePee (09-03-2019)
The pink lines are the flight director, which displays what the computer believes the attitude of the airplane should be, as a guide to the pilot when hand flying, and indicating where the autopilot will move the airplane to.At the top of the same screen you can see 'FD' and above that 'TO/GA' repeated twice. This is 'Take Off / Go Around' indicating this is the mode programmed for the flight director. It appears twice because this mode provides vertical and lateral guidance. No surprise since it's on the ground and set up for take off, it's indicating a straight ahead pitch up. In flight this can show a lot of different modes, the simplest being heading and altitude hold.
The Yoke (joystick) has several switches. On the top are two closely spaced rocker switches for elevator trim, both of which must be moved to do anything as a safety feature. The single round switch to the left is the autopilot disconnect. Not visible in the picture are two transmit switches, on for the radios and another for the intercom system.
Last edited by TeePee; 09-03-2019 at 05:29 PM.
ik9000 (11-03-2019)
The flight director is switched off on the left side, as the preflight configuration has only been completed on the right. The other pilot was running the coffee machine!
Jonj1611 (09-03-2019)
Has it got heated seats?
What? When it has a coffee machine on the flight deck? I wouldn't be surprised if it has a 1950s jukebox and a foot spa, nevermind heated seats. Seriously though I imagine not. In a climate controlled cabin you presumably wouldn't want/need them. Airline seats are sticky enough as it is.
Tee Pee, do you know what engines it runs?
And how many failsafes are there to stop the tail opening in flight? I'd want more than one!
Last edited by ik9000; 11-03-2019 at 12:22 PM.
Nice office.
Where do you put the table football machine or the coffee-maker?
Though I think I can guess the answer to the latter, and I think my wife would object if I tried that.
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