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Boeing Takes A Dreamliner Vertical While Rehearsing For The Paris Air Show
You need to watch Boeing’s crack team of display pilots put this 787-9 Dreamliner through its paces during a practice flight preparing for the upcoming Paris Air Show. (planelopnik.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Looks like your average 20R departure from KSNA over the coastal properties of the rich and whiny.
Back in the day i HATED that noise abatement departure but I did my best to fly it as charted knowing my airline would get some sort of fine if I flew it wrong and I would have been on the carpet in the chief pilots office.
Must have done it right, never got a call to come in!
Must have done it right, never got a call to come in!
It's 32 departure from KMWH and it's over Central Washington which is a farming community that's known as the Columbia Basin (Columbia River is 30nm to West). We're not rich or whiny at all just to let you know.
Brien, I was referring to the semi vertical climb off the runway that is similar to getting out of John Wayne (KSNA) which lobs the A/C up and over the coastal properties, then cutting the engines back keeping quiet to avoid offending the coastal folks below (AKA the rich and whiny). Pretty country there on the Columbia Plateau.
With the airline, I only got to go into SNA in the MD80. Not achieving Vr until reaching the last 1000 feet of the runway was not nearly as exhilarating :-)
First time I did that takeoff as a passenger, I truly thought we had lost the engines. I caught air in my seat (just like on a roller coaster!) Fortunately, the person seated next to me was used to it and calmed me down.
The second time, the captain warned everyone so it was a much more pleasant experience. I just channeled Disney's California Screamin' ...
The second time, the captain warned everyone so it was a much more pleasant experience. I just channeled Disney's California Screamin' ...