Aviation Weekly Newsletter - Monday, May 30, 2016

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Have you found help on Aviation? Take just two minutes to sign up now, and you'll be ready to give back when you can. Sign up for Aviation Top new questions this week: Are commercial pilots incentivized to reduce fuel consumption? Commercial airlines spend a lot of their operating income on fuel, so in order to maximize shareholder value presumably like to use as little fuel as is safely possible. Are commercial pilots ever ... commercial-aviation fuel   asked by Digital Trauma 18 votes answered by habu 20 votes Is it still "landing" in a seaplane? This probably sounds like a silly question, but I was watching floatplanes land on Lake Union, Seattle, and it got me wondering whether a plane that touches down onto water is still talked about as ... landing terminology seaplane   asked by Azor-Ahai 11 votes answered by Pondlife 15 votes How do you report reckless pilots? I have never reported reckless behavior by other pilots to the FAA, but I have thought about it several times. The only problem is that usually I will only know the tail number, not the name of the ... faa-regulations safety faa aircraft-registration   asked by Tyler Durden 10 votes answered by Dave 11 votes How is a conflict between aircraft with TCAS I and II resolved? Let's say there are two aircraft in a risk of collision, one of them is equipped with Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) I so it will get only a Traffic Advisory (TA), however the second one is ... air-traffic-control instrument-flight-rules flight-instruments instrument-procedures tcas   asked by walid naceri 9 votes answered by DeltaLima 11 votes Using opposite rudder and aileron in left turn for coordination This question goes against everything I've read or heard with the exception of a suggestion from my CFI in my last flight lesson, so I was hoping to get some clarification: During a left turn into ... flight-controls rudder ailerons   asked by Ryan Griffith 9 votes answered by Dave 8 votes What fail safe protections exist to prevent non-plug type cabin doors opening in flight Increasingly, modern types do not use plug doors to save complexity and weight. As far as I know, the doors automatic/manual interlock only controls whether the slide inflates when the door is ... aircraft-design safety   asked by Simon 6 votes answered by OSUZorba 2 votes Is induced drag essentially nothing more than a specific type of form drag? If I were standing outside on a windy day holding a flat rectangular object such as a food tray up in the wind, orthogonal to the direction of flow, the drag created would be classified, mostly, as ... aerodynamics drag nomenclature   asked by Ryan Mortensen 5 votes answered by Jan Hudec 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What is this line found above the door on many aircraft? Many aircraft have this line above the door as seen in the photos below. What is it, and what is its purpose? Source Source aircraft-design airliner fuselage doors   asked by kepler22b 20 votes answered by Jonathan Walters 36 votes Why do flight times differ between traveling East versus traveling West? Why does it take longer to fly West to East than East to West? Which factors affect this? Does Earth's spinning affect the time difference? Maybe the air circulation? airline-operations winds-aloft   asked by Yadav Chetan 29 votes answered by voretaq7 28 votes Can you answer these? Scaling down a propeller for wind tunnel testing I want to scale down my propeller for a wind tunnel testing. But I am unable to find any literature on it. Please give suggestions. propeller   asked by Rohan 3 votes Is it acceptable to use VNAV data in lieu of localizer recommended altitudes? My airline's vertical navigation data isn't certified for use and is considered 'advisory' only. But, 90% of the time it provides highly accurate data. Some instructors at my company contend that ... instrument-procedures   asked by joeb 1 vote Why the Fine Powder Coating over blown turbine parts? 2 Cessna 208B's, both using Pratt & Whitney PT6A-114 engines, experienced a sudden loud "pop", then suffered massive turbine failure(all the turbine blades broken) as well as catastrophic failure ... engine-failure turboprop   asked by user2479 1 vote

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