The few times Ive flown between Hawaiian Islands it was on a Hawaiian Airlines puddle jumper not a 737 Max. If Southwest is making these runs its something newish.
Also the distance between Honolulu and Lihaue is only about 125 miles. You dont go to 16000 feet for that distance. Its only a 25 minute flight. Ive flown dozens of times between Chicago and Detroit. Thats double the distance (250 miles) and we only went up to around 10k feet.
So is this comms of some sort? Because the article isnt believable.
Edit: I couldnt find anything about how high a plane would fly between these two points but I did find an estimate for how far a plane travels to ascend of descend 1000 feet. Three miles per 1000 feet. So of the 125 miles trip it would take about 48 miles to ascend and then 48 miles to descend, leaving 29 miles at altitude. May be plausible I suppose but still doesnt sound right.
Yes. This story doesn't make sense. Sensationalism? Trying to smear Boeing a bit more?
They were landing, so why does it say they dropped from 16,000ft to 400ft? Apparently, the pilot flying apparently hadn't stabilized the landing and the pilot monitoring (captain) called for a go-around. There was no death defying plunge from 16kft to pull out just 400ft above the ocean.
On a normal flight it takes about 10 minutes to get to cruising altitude at least. I would love to hear from pilots that fly that route. Why would you climb over 5000 feet for a 22 minute flight?
Move the decimal point and that is how high to go. Example - 125 miles would be 12,500. But they are flying under IFR rules, so you can’t do the 500’. And flying westbound has to be an even number. So the optimal altitude would be 12,000’ or 14,000’. Going up to 16,000 wouldn’t be horrible, especially to get over some cumulus clouds.
More examples-
400 miles = 40,000’
50 miles = 5,000’
Note- Mileage is in Nautical Miles, not Statute Miles.
The few times Ive flown between Hawaiian Islands it was on a Hawaiian Airlines puddle jumper not a 737 Max. If Southwest is making these runs its something newish.
Also the distance between Honolulu and Lihaue is only about 125 miles. You dont go to 16000 feet for that distance. Its only a 25 minute flight. Ive flown dozens of times between Chicago and Detroit. Thats double the distance (250 miles) and we only went up to around 10k feet.
So is this comms of some sort? Because the article isnt believable.
Edit: I couldnt find anything about how high a plane would fly between these two points but I did find an estimate for how far a plane travels to ascend of descend 1000 feet. Three miles per 1000 feet. So of the 125 miles trip it would take about 48 miles to ascend and then 48 miles to descend, leaving 29 miles at altitude. May be plausible I suppose but still doesnt sound right.
Yes. This story doesn't make sense. Sensationalism? Trying to smear Boeing a bit more?
They were landing, so why does it say they dropped from 16,000ft to 400ft? Apparently, the pilot flying apparently hadn't stabilized the landing and the pilot monitoring (captain) called for a go-around. There was no death defying plunge from 16kft to pull out just 400ft above the ocean.
On a normal flight it takes about 10 minutes to get to cruising altitude at least. I would love to hear from pilots that fly that route. Why would you climb over 5000 feet for a 22 minute flight?
Move the decimal point and that is how high to go. Example - 125 miles would be 12,500. But they are flying under IFR rules, so you can’t do the 500’. And flying westbound has to be an even number. So the optimal altitude would be 12,000’ or 14,000’. Going up to 16,000 wouldn’t be horrible, especially to get over some cumulus clouds.
More examples-
400 miles = 40,000’
50 miles = 5,000’
Note- Mileage is in Nautical Miles, not Statute Miles.
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