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"...Runway overruns happen quite often." - Qatar Airways CEO
Akbar Al Baker, the chief executive of Qatar Airways, which is doubling its flights to and from Australia next year, has claimed runway overrun incidents like one that damaged one of his airline's Boeing 777s upon take-off from Miami in September "happen quite often". (www.smh.com.au) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Systems analysis and design involving people who actually have experience in the cockpit with a mindset considering what can go wrong.
Joel, no response could be greater than yours. Spot on.
Seem to remember something about the old school flight instructor saying, three things you can't get back, the runway behind you, the altitude above you and the airspeed, oh I forget, SMASH.
Clearly, the remaining runway distance is the issue. The Captain/FO should have known this. ATC should have advised the runway available from that taxiway, the runway chart should always be zoomed in no more than what shows the whole runway and having all this info available......insert remaining take off distance available into the FMS (AND) it will tell you not to take off! A lot off people asleep at the wheel here.
Before the advent of such software in the flightdeck, how did pilots take off without overrun? I think they used common sense!
In the end of the day it's important to understand who is responsible for what in cockpit. Computer systems are intended to solve very narrow problems leaving all unknowns to the crew. There are cases when alerts from different systems were present but ignored.
PS. A lot of parameters you've mentioned entered manually.
PS. A lot of parameters you've mentioned entered manually.
This is what you are missing: all of the airlines from the Emirates have experienced a growth never seen anywhere in the history of commercial aviation, they have been buying the latest airframes from Boeing and Airbus by the dozens if not by the gross and have not have enough time to set up a rigorous methology for hiring pilots and thus several of them I hear are below and some well below standards as tjhose found with airlines from U.S., European and a few other countries. It has been widely reported that management are forcing crews to fly longer hours than ICAO regulations specify. And now that those airlines are facing a diminishing of traffic and even stronger pressure from their governments to show profits are they going to cut corners?. Not too long ago Qatar Airways started to install seat a mere 17.5 inches wide for the Economy section to add an extra seat. Where is this whole thing going.
How can we have them start a takeoff roll with 1000m of runway behind them and not have the software notice it?! It's like cases of people trying to take off from a taxi-way!
With the technology we have, the systems should know free standing weight, fuel load, engine performance, position, etc. so the FMS should be able to pick very early on in the roll whether the plane will likely make it off the ground with the current settings before the end of the runway.
What am I missing?