[777ER]

Originally Posted by The_Blob

It wasn't birds that made the engine fall off. Excess weight from the flight attendants posing for pics on the engine.

You know there's shear pins in the engine mounts that will let it go should it encounter severe vibration enough to possibly destroy part of the wing where it mounts to or when it's hit hard enough direct contact on ground to prevent further damage?

In the air, the engine shear pins breaks, engine flies up and over the wing and away.
In some runway overrun accidents, the engines shear pins did break in the front but not the rear so hence the appearance of engines looking like they point down or up depending where it's resting on.

There's one aircraft in my fleet that overran CLE runway in the snow, half front of the aircraft starting from the front of the wings all the way to the nose was removed, a new section from the factory was flown over and installed (took 2 months to get it) along with new landing gears, engines and slats/flaps.
It was almost totaled but plane was basically new, the insurance decided to go ahead and repair it rather than wait a few years on a slot when the replacement aircraft would be built.

[bmstyle71]

write up: MFD display dim

corrective action: turned up brightness knob, ops ck good

LMAO ARE YOU SERIOUS?????????
Two pilots trained on an aircraft don't know that the multi function display has a brightness knob? Did this seriously happen man?

[bmstyle71]

Originally Posted by The_Blob

It wasn't birds that made the engine fall off. Excess weight from the flight attendants posing for pics on the engine.

If I was one of their pilots I'd be hoping we're over nighting somewhere What airline is that? the only thing green that comes to mind is aer lingus.....anyone?

[The_Blob]

Flight attendants are fun.

[bmstyle71]

Originally Posted by The_Blob

Flight attendants are fun.

[The_Blob]

Look! An ugly flight attendant.

[777ER]

Originally Posted by bmstyle71

LMAO ARE YOU SERIOUS?????????
Two pilots trained on an aircraft don't know that the multi function display has a brightness knob? Did this seriously happen man?

I shit you not...

[bmstyle71]

Originally Posted by 777ER

I shit you not...

So none of them stopped to think "where's the brightness knob" To think the training pilots go through where you practically have to know every inch of the airplane, yet they can't figure out there is a brightness knob for the MFD?

[Greeney]

>_< Idiot pilots, even I know that there is a brightness knob on the MFD of Embraers... n00bs I tell you N00BS!

[bmstyle71]

Originally Posted by Greeney

>_< Idiot pilots, even I know that there is a brightness knob on the MFD of Embraers... n00bs I tell you N00BS!

All PFDs and MFDs have brightness knobs obviously lol. You're not going to have it as bright as you would on a sunny day as you would during pitch black night. Lol Even a palm has brightness control. Interesting stories 777ER, thanks for sharing.

[777ER]

One time I had a call from a ERJ-170 that was enroute to my station, the IDG on Eng #1 was disconnected by the pilot due to IDG Low oil pressure...APU fired up and is running in place of the disabled IDG so no need to divert.

Plane lands, and taxi to the gate...I opened up the small panel on the core cowl while pax was deboarding, to inspect the IDG oil level and it was at it's minimum.
Looked in the logbook and it just came out of a B-check last night...bastards.

had no servicing tool, my manager never got around to ordering it (daily maint. conference call chewed his ass out for that one due to 2hr delay)...I had to borrow it from DL.

then the plane had to be towed off the gate cuz a DL MD-80's was arriving and there's no gate space...while the plane was being towed to remote stand, the female FO put the ipod on and had it play over the PA and there was one 40 something MILF flight attendent on the plane, the other one was okay. The tug driver looked cuban and she flashed him and she had a nice rack with a golden color bra on
Lucky me she unzipped her bra and flashed me nice pair of tits I say

so after it was parked...I got out and opened up the cowl to service the IDG...run the engine for a few mins and recheck the oil level...the crew didn't mind waiting on the plane until another one came in and they were swapped to the other plane by dispatch



For some reason, alot of female pilots and flight attendents like having my personal cell # to call me when there's a problem...a few of them wants to go out and party with me or come over for drinks when I'm about to finish work or on my day off...I'm still a bit suprised over this...a good thing I say

[777ER]

One night this plane took off...at 900 ft AGL engine 1 EGT overtemp'ed and fire warning bell went off. Pilot shut the engine down and fire warning stopped...climbed on engine #2 and declared emergency...flew the pattern and landed.

Night shift opened the bottom part of the cowl and tried to find the problem, even got panels off to the core and unable to find anything obivious and every time they ran the engine, temps were just at it's limit at idle and everytime you increase it off idle, it'd go into the red.

Came to work the next morning and find the night shift was there all night and tired...they went home after I arrived at the plane.
Just me and a co-worker thought of something the night shift hasn't done...check the top of the engine.
Found the problem and got the part out thru the anti-ice panel without taking the top cowl off:




new part came in via COMAT in 2 hours...installed and ran the engine, ops ck good.

Boy the night shift was pissed off big time when we told them we found the problem on top.

[777ER]

A 5 series headed for Belgium on a cargo 747...dunno what's that screen thing mounted to the windsheild is for...

[777ER]

Random pics from work:














Lighting strike inspection:


Hot blonde I hang with...she's in a bad mood on her last leg of a 4 day trip...hey baby you did it for the $$$ :finger:


In hangar for elevator replacement after a AC A319 took the high speed turnoff and it's wing fence sliced it...this was taxing out to the runway to depart...

[Blake]

great pics and stories, keep em coming!

[Greeney]

Love the stories T7, keep em coming!

[777ER]

Looks like the A320 is out of the water by now:


APU tailcone is missing, APU looks like it's being held on by it's wiring harness.
Heard one of the engine is possibly found at the spot close to where the plane impacted the water...random junk has been found on the bottom that isn't even from the plane.

[bmstyle71]

Hey 777ER, What's that part on the A/c that had an EGT over temp that you're holding?

[777ER]

Originally Posted by bmstyle71

Hey 777ER, What's that part on the A/c that had an EGT over temp that you're holding?

'Customer Bleed mainfold' That's what Embraer called it.

Provides bleed air for the engine A/I and wing/stab A/I.
The one that's in front of it (on the engine) is for the packs and pressurization....200 psi goes into that tube...the HSV modulates it depending on power setting and should it come from this stage (at low power setting) or let the FAV take care of it at (high power setting).

Basically when this bleed mainfold broke, it was letting uncontrollable air out of the break and the turbine stage wasn't getting enough air to keep the temps under control so the pressure in that stage dropped too, the EGT spiked into the red and hot air (500+ deg) was blasting into the cowl and when that small tube (wire looking thing inside the opening) picked up the hot blast air temp and set off a fire warning.

The checklist for engine fire is to shut it down first via the fire handles (commands FADEC's to shutdown, both FADEC agrees on that engine and shuts it down) and wait 15 seconds to see if the warning bell stops, if not, twist the handle to discharge halgon and wait 10 seconds fire fire warning to go out otherwise twist into the other direciton and discharge bottle #2.
At the same time when the handle is pulled, it disconnects the EDP, generators, shuts off fuel valve at the engine and the tank valve.

Just remembered I replaced a pressure switch as a precaution since it was suspect in not letting the HSV open a lil to release the high pressure before it went to burst pressure.

The next day, another 145 came in with the pressure switch broken in half...I think the warning was HSV fail?
But there was only 1 in stock at my base and it was used on that 145 with the burst bleed mainfold tube

Took 5 hours to get it via COMAT, part missed the flight at the departure airport...was put on a connecting flight and it took quite a bit of time.

[777ER]

Here's the pics of the lifting:

[Greeney]

Thats just amazing...

[RedGT3]

Great pics thanks Triple 7