New answers tagged safety
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Are solar / geomagnetic storms real risks for commercial aviation?
Minor, typical solar flares do not pose a significant risk to aviation. Flight planning services, such as LIDO, do not typically include specific information on solar flares or solar activity.
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Why does the turn tighten in a Spiral Dive as it progresses? Even without applying any elevator control?
It's a case of the planes "static stability" gone amok as the plane circles downward.
The lift of the banked wing causes a change in direction, which causes a change in the relative wind on ...
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Why does the turn tighten in a Spiral Dive as it progresses? Even without applying any elevator control?
It's complicated. One factor driving the increase in bank angle is that the outboard wingtip is moving around a larger circle radius, and thus experiencing a higher airspeed, and thus creating more ...
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Is needing to urinate an emergency?
You will have a hard time winning the argument that the need to deviate your flight plan is a true emergency if it was reasonably foreseeable.
In short, faking an emergency is a BAD IDEA! Don’t do it....
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Could a trained individual passenger escape a commercial plane crash by bringing the necessary equipment to parachute?
Well, it depends. Remember, first off, that most aircraft accidents take place during takeoff and landing, at altitudes were a parachute is going to be moot and not very useful for survival.
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Could a trained individual passenger escape a commercial plane crash by bringing the necessary equipment to parachute?
So, if you could even open the doors, which you can't, you'd need a parachute, oxygen supply and mask, survival gear, and probably thermal clothing.
That's a problem. The parachute would likely be ...
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Could a trained individual passenger escape a commercial plane crash by bringing the necessary equipment to parachute?
Either assume that I am notified with enough time to escape, or just forget about crashing entirely and consider that I might just decide to leave the plane whenever I want.
You can't open the doors ...
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