Bharat Rakshak

Kannan

Wow ! $17-22 K is well below even a poorly paid post-doc in the sciences, almost bordering on graduate student salary for a 20hr/week Research Assistant these days. Why would anyone want to do such a stressful job for such a low pay in the US. Funny you mention academia - some people graduate with ...

Kannan

Kannan, Guess you do are from the airlines industry, or have good information on it. With regards to the recent incident at Thiruvananthapuram, can you throw some more light on.. 1. The rules related to the flying hours of the pilots. That is how much is the mandated rest hours, and what is the wor...

Kannan

what is the problem ? is it lack of nav aids in all the three major Kerala airports or lack of pilots trained upto Cat3x levels? Getting qualified and being current for CAT III operations is really not a big step after getting an ATP and being entrusted to a multimillion dollar jet. The airport was...

Kannan

For safe close formation flying of choppers, LEDs on the main rotor blade tips can be used for signaling, an universal encoding mechanism is what we see in traffic lights, the emission spectrum of the LEDs can be in the invisible zone and weather penetrating and the NVGs will do the shifting into t...

Kannan

To understand US dominance, first off, you have to drop the desi habit of only knowing universities listed by US News in its top 25 list, and look at how the system really works. The top university in R&D expenditure is Wisconsin, with something like $900 million annually. They have decent gradu...

Kannan

Kannan sahab which aircraft would you like to be in if the catapult failed? :wink: Victor sahab, not all aircrafts required tails hooks ... the Hercules landed on AC without any hooks. you would need planes with high lift creating surfaces, a strong engine and strong brakes. Fair point. :) That sai...

Kannan

Victor wrote:
Merril wrote:^^ thats the Sud-Ouest SO 8000 Narval.

Had to google for that

It was a puzzling design for a shipboard fighter considering that an arrester hook looked impossible to work on it.

I would hate to be in that thing if the catapult failed!

Kannan

^^ True....Thats the only reason i could think of about why AI wouldn't allow TSP folks near the aircraft since it is just a normal civilian B-737 or A-330 with nothing to hide. Cant think of any other credible reason. Most airlines won't let a non network or outsourced provider touch the plane. Yo...

Kannan

DARPA may be on track to find the ultimate solution against asymmetric warfare: The head of the DARPA program is a desi: http://192.5.18.102/mto/people/pms/lal/lal_proposerday.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/BAA/baa06-22.html I checked the links they have expired the head is not a Desi. Would be surprisin...

Kannan

I tell everybody in USA that comes across me asking me about my religion (sikh) . I tell them that even as I am a Sikh I do see Jesus Christ as an equal to Guru Nanak or Ramchandra or Krishna (a great hero). Which is truth as per my Dharma. "Devan Kao Aike Bhagwan" i.e. "Many Devtas ...

Kannan

Kannan Saar, you have your transport or CPL? Now(April, 2012 onwards), DGCA is asking for a skills test in India. That might have something to do with the confusion? No sir not a transport though I wish :D India does not have any agreement with the FAA so FAA holders have always had to take all the...

Kannan

^^ word on PPrune is that requisitions are out for 300 pilots from AI. They can find them in a heartbeat - mostly expats. The sad part is the local infrastructure is awful. I spent two months by Trivandrum and Bangalore trying to find an instructor who could convert my FAA certificates to DGCA. The...

Kannan

Wow, the press sure loves talking that up! Kind of insulting that they keep mentioning women but I guess it's good press for them.

Kannan

Anti ice should be the same, they all operate in the high flight levels. He mentioned a different wheel configuration, but there's also the case of cabin pressure :) Cabin pressure is kept to 6-8k feet, so if you're landing at an airport past 10k feet you need to make sure you can open the door :) T...

Kannan

http://business-standard.com/india/news ... rt/476093/

Wow. These AI idiots basically don't want to lose seniority chances on the 787 to more qualified IA pilots, and are going to tank the carriers in the process.

Kannan

x-post from Criminal Justice System thread While the focus on illegal poaching is noble and timely, am not sure about this method. To put things in perspective, with this move, the punishment for poaching is more severe compared to bride burning, raping a minor & killing somebody while driving ...

Kannan

Raja Bose wrote: That still doesn't explain why it was explicitly stated that the tip be left unpainted? - there must be something else inside it. RWR possibly?

Two inches in front of the radar housing would be a horribly inconvenient place to put an RWR, no?

Kannan

Will be very interesting to read the final report though. You're in luck, as linked below, it's been out for a year. :D Just as much technical detail as the GoI Mangalore report. Seems like panic. Pitch up, the readings seem erroneous and the warning goes off. Pitch down, the warning comes on. Raw ...

Kannan

Airlines practically never make money, and the public ends up sinking cash into air services in one form or another. Global airline industry profit stood at 4 billion $ for 2011. Right, that's 0.5% Then throw in that FedEx and UPS can still afford to give $200k+ salaries because they don't haul qui...

Kannan

My grandfather died in Krishnagiri after he was hit by a car while biking. My family is STILL trying to give the Krishnagiri police enough of a bribe to get a death certificate.

Kannan

At a time when the US is now allowing women to serve on board submarines and countries like Australia are dismantling all gender barriers to allow female troops to serve on the frontlines, India remains extremely reluctant to even give them permanent jobs in the military. Source:- http://www.punjab...

Kannan

As regard shutting down the Tevatron early ( as per some), the inside rumour mill claims were if Higgs was actually discovered at a significance to claim full discovery at the Tevatron, then DOE would have been hard pressed with reasons for supporting LHC experiments. In fact it had already investe...

Kannan

Airlines practically never make money, and the public ends up sinking cash into air services in one form or another.

Kannan

Hopefully the licenses come with rigorous training, otherwise they're adding a hazard!

Kannan

Anyone else read the Mangalore final report? Sad but purely pilot error and a FO who should've been more assertive

Kannan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14705719

That will buff right out!

Kannan

Cat3 alone will not allow planes to take off. You need minimum visibility (dont know what it is. I think DGCA recently revised it down from somewhat). I do remember my days from SF, when SFO used to shut down for couple of hours everyday during the fog season.. Yes, SF is known for it's fog and is ...

Kannan

http://www.davi.ws/avionics/TheAvionics ... Cap_12.pdf

This is an awesome guide to the FBW system on Airbus A319-40 aircraft. Outside of the Airbus POH, this is an excellent overview of the ELAC , FDC, etc. and the amazing systems that keep multiple redundancy.

Kannan

But what the heck happened from ...04:38 until ..05:21 (43 seconds!!!!???) Sounds like he did not "go around" but kept going and touched down, too far and then the plane slewed out of control. I still say thrust reverser failure on one side, or the captain tried stopping by doing a 90-deg...

Kannan

I'm used to Namakkal marketplaces, so I'm not surprised by Indians anywhere being cutthroat or crass

I was taken aback by Air India stewardesses treating Indians crappier than white folk

It's been all Lufthansa since.

Kannan

Not shocking, as fares go low, you'll see airlines become the "Greyhound of the skies"

I agree, I'm wondering why the DGCA or NTSB have not at least made a preliminary report with the CVR transcript.

Kannan

Marut wrote:Apna DGCA has finally moved it's a$$.

Expat pilots to undergo med tests in India

chetak-ji, your comments and inputs will be appreciated.

Moving to address a problem that does not exist.

Kannan

Sounds like this would be a horrible waste of resources that would be better spent making local police forces less corrupt and more effective.

Kannan

This is one of the nicest and most depressing threads I have read in a while in its entirety. The TOIlet has likewise bunch of fools and ignoramous blog writers who have no idea how much is the population of India in 2010. Still dare to compare IPL with sensitive Dalit issue. TOIlet and some of thei...

Kannan

Dileep wrote:Isn't it (supposed to be) drilled into the head of the pilot to obey TCAS over all other inputs?

It is now, but it wasn't an issue addressed by ICAO till after Ueberlingen. Probably wasn't the poor controller's fault at all.

Kannan

I had similar experience when our corporate jet had a similar close encounter with a commercial jet near san jose in california and autopilot took over forcing our flight to ascend quickly. What is needed to have similar thing deployed in india? Is it very expensive system? TCAS, not autopilot. You...

Kannan

Three points 1)enqyoob raises an EXCELLENT question - the CVR has supposedly not been decoded yet. These talks between a captain and an FO would not be on ATC tapes. What on earth is that newspaper getting its information from? I was suspicious of newspaper reports to begin with but this raises a BI...

Kannan

Mangalore is a Captain only airport. So Pilot would have ignored advice of Co-Pilot. Which would still be horribly wrong! Just because the SOP dictates who is pilot flying and not flying doesn't mean the CRM procedures are shelved - the FO isn't there to bring him coffee. :( Beaty also mentions tha...

Kannan

Ah, got it. I just assume most scary noises from the engine on takeoff are compressor stalls, I've only heard them twice and that was plenty :) Still, I don't think Mangalore needs CAT III ILS, PAR or anything fancy :) Unless the weather is 0/0 CATIIIC is pretty useless. Even PAR is only useful for ...

Kannan

First, I think the problem lies with DGCA. Too much cronyism, ineffective leadership, and a typical unwillingness to enforce existing laws. Probably unrelated to the crash, I don't think we need fancy gizmos like PAR. We need simple things other countries take for granted like grooved runways. Just ...

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