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re: Views from the flight deck - some cool pics
Posted on 10/23/24 at 8:11 pm to Tuscaloosa
Posted on 10/23/24 at 8:11 pm to Tuscaloosa
Great thread. Aviation is fascinating to me . We flew a few weeks ago for the first time in 14 years. It was awesome . My 1st cousin is a pilot for American Airlines out of Dallas and looks to really enjoy his job.
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Posted on 10/23/24 at 9:44 pm to gizmothepug
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Is that 33,000 feet? What does HDG stand for?
Yep.
HDG is heading. 137 is southeast-ish.
Posted on 10/23/24 at 9:45 pm to pdubya76
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My 1st cousin is a pilot for American Airlines out of Dallas and looks to really enjoy his job.
I think he posts here.
Posted on 10/23/24 at 10:29 pm to Tuscaloosa
Name that runway, Capt!
Posted on 10/23/24 at 10:34 pm to BRgetthenet
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Name that runway, Capt!
Definitely KMDW
Hard to tell, but looking upwind of 31C
Posted on 10/23/24 at 10:36 pm to Tuscaloosa
Me returning from a storm tasking after being getting cut off for a parking spot. Didn’t realize they had the resident squadron photographer on board when I flipped them off.
Cool looking thunderstorm over New Mexico
This post was edited on 10/24/24 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 10/23/24 at 10:37 pm to Tuscaloosa
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My 1st cousin is a pilot for American Airlines out of Dallas and looks to really enjoy his job
My uncle retired out of DFW for American 10 or so years ago.
Posted on 10/23/24 at 10:38 pm to RedFoxx
Another angle, a few decades earlier
Posted on 10/24/24 at 12:13 am to NoBoDawg
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It’s comforting to know some pilots are concerned with taking pics on approach to Midway
I'd be more concerned about controlling the aircraft sitting here than taking this photo you referenced.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 2:16 am to Tuscaloosa
I love flying. And I never put my window shade down. Too much to see out there
Posted on 10/24/24 at 2:18 am to Tuscaloosa
That’s pretty awesome and earth looks pretty flat in all pics.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 2:36 am to Tuscaloosa
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think he posts here.
He might. He’s a Mississippi native so don’t hold that against him.
Random fact….his grandfather taught Elvis Presley to play the guitar.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 5:43 am to pdubya76
Thanks for all the photos. I miss my time on the flight deck. My time was in a KC-130 flying out of North Carolina and also Okinawa. To show my age we flew the F and R models and only had 4 blades. I was not a pilot but was able to be on the flight deck, right behind the co-pilot as a celestial navigator.
Is celestial navigation still taught?
Is celestial navigation still taught?
This post was edited on 10/24/24 at 5:51 am
Posted on 10/24/24 at 6:28 am to Rebel
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earth looks pretty flat in all pics.
Oh boy, here we go.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 6:56 am to HerkFlyer
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Fun fact: that aircraft is the oldest C-130J in the Air Force inventory.
Wrong.
94-8151 & 94-8152 started down the line in Marietta as H3s. There are H3s that are 96 models. 5300 is 96-5300.
-8152 was the Lockheed world tour bird.
I was there when 8151 and 8152 were delivered in 1999.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 7:06 am to slacker130
1/2 the airfield is 1/4 mil visibility, dense fog. 1/2 is sky clear, vis unlimited. Tower is totally obscured.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 7:21 am to Tuscaloosa
Thanks for sharing, thos3 are awesome.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 4:17 pm to slacker130
Oh, someone told me that and I ran with it. I thought all of the Weather birds started on the H3 line.
Posted on 10/24/24 at 5:21 pm to Tuscaloosa
What does that white knob on the left do?
Posted on 10/24/24 at 9:53 pm to LanierSpots
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What does that white knob on the left do?
Tuscaloosa can correct me(I don’t fly the 757/767), but I believe that knob would be used to take manual control of the speed of the jet. The jet will have an uplinked speed it will fly in the absence of pilot intervention. Using that knob you can command an indicated airspeed/mach number based on ATC demands or your desire to get home early.
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