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I'm a 777 pilot so I'm biased...

By Dusty (AKA Attila of Argghhh!) on February 29, 2012 | | Comments (6)
 ...but this is pretty cool.

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By DL Sly on February 29, 2012 4:01 PM
Wow, a 19 hr flight!?  I'm impressed.
One of my old firefighting buddies is an electrical engineer who worked on the 777.....after he was done playing with fire, that is.
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By John of Argghhh! on February 29, 2012 4:36 PM
Clearly someone is on crew rest, opened the bottle of Jack or Jim, and is catching up on his reading...
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 29, 2012 5:16 PM
 Apparently they forgot to include a navigator, so one of the spare pilots tried to set an out-and-back flight, but had trouble figuring out the compass.

Cheers
 
By Panther 01 on February 29, 2012 6:45 PM
 Compass? Navigator? Eh?

How about an FMS? Did you see that route summary?

Re: Jack, Non! Jim? Alas, no...(sitting Reserve)

Re: 19 hours...13 isn't unusual on my pairings (direct to Dubai, non-stop).

 
By BillT on February 29, 2012 10:01 PM
So, it looks like they have that pesky "starboard computer bank catches fire in flight" glitch solved?
 
By Attila on March 1, 2012 11:12 AM
Yas. But now they're fixing an aft fuselage section composite delamination issue (has to do with the assembly process of fixing the frame-stiffening longerons to the carbon fiber aft section fuselage tube). Not a HUGE deal, but one that must be dealt with. (So far, ANA is the only company that has operational 787s and they haven't seen the problem in their jets but are, of course, neverthelesss standing by for a tech order from Boeing if one is issued. Good news is, you don't have to disassemble the airplane to fix the problem.)

There's probably a lot of engineering lesson-learning going on as composite materials become the principal ingredient in big-jet structural design. Par for the course in the real world, once the idea goes from CAD screen to production floor.