1-11 Enthusiast Flight Dallas

[DaveB]

106F Our thermometers don't go that high on this side of the pond

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DaveB

[FlyTexas]

Yep Dave, it's been a very warm summer...but it's been cooling down nicely here the last few days. Today I was at the store purchasing a new fan. The shelf that is normally stocked only with fans is now stocked half with fans and half with fireplace logs. Winter is coming!

Brian

[Motormouse]

Hope its' a bit cooler when I get there (Dallas) next week; being eddycated on another type rating

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Pete

[Nigel H-J]

What wonderful videos of the 1-11, just gets me itching to fly DMs' model this afternoon when back home!!

Why do they clap when it takes off and lands???

I often wonder that Garry, back in the 70s' I spent 6 weeks over in Paris when in the RAF for the Paris Air Show, they had to send me back to England to pick up another car so in their wisedom put me on an Air France Caravelle and not as I hoped a Trident or other British Aircraft as would have really wanted to get up to the flight deck!!

On touchdown at Heathrow all the French Passengers broke into cheers and applause...........to this day I have not been able to work it out why they did that

Regards
Nigel.

[FlyTexas]

Hope its' a bit cooler when I get there (Dallas) next week; being eddycated on another type rating

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Pete

The weather looks pretty nice for your visit, Pete. The high temps for the week are predicted to range from 91F to 100F. Definitely cooler than it has been.

Brian

[WhisperJet]

Lovely desktop shot here:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled ... 00f1800921

However I ask myself -
What's that thing beneath the APU fire handle? A photograph? A mirror?
And why is the TCAS screen black?

All the best,

Nick

[Garry Russell]

All the electronic display screens look black..I think that's just in the photgraphy.

[DaveB]

Garry is right about the TCAS I think the 'thing' below the APU fire handle IS a mirror.. probably a local fit to enable the capt to see down the aisle with the FD door open

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DaveB

[Motormouse]

TCAS probably 'black' because its set to 'pop-up' mode; and will only display when there is a conflict within the detection parameters
(range above/below) that crew have it set for.

Forget the 'official' terminology; but constantly looking at an instrument that doesn't display any meaningful information will cause the brain to 'switch off' from that instrument; bit like attention deficit disorder.

Was over at KDAL yesterday checking out the air museum

http://www.flightmuseum.com/aircraft.htm

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Pete

[DaveB]

It could be Pete I 'pulled' that pic and had a zoom in because it doesn't look (at that size) like there's any info coming off his GPS either. Zooming in does show info on the GPS screens and perhaps.. unless I'm imagining it.. a needle on the Capt's TCAS of approx 1000ft down. Difficult to tell for sure though as he still appears to have 90% HPRPM dialled in Too many tricks of the light for me I'm afraid

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DaveB