Layover AMA

"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
03/16/2019 at 12:55 • Filed to: AMA

Flying from Sacramento to Atlanta via Seattle. Part and parcel of using my airline superpowers is that sometime we have odd routings. Here is the view from the Sky Club. I have time. You have questions? Planes, careers, Evos, classic Minis or random crap?

DISCUSSION (22)

Future Heap Owner > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:07

Why didn’t anybody else ever do the Channel 9 thing that United does? (Did? IDK if they even do it any more.) Do pilots not like it?

Spanfeller is a twat > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:10

The best thing about Sacramento airport is that it’s relatively tiny

f86sabre > Future Heap Owner
03/16/2019 at 13:13

Not really sure. You have to tie in the radios to the entertainment system and that adds hardware. It can be done obviously. I’m not sure if U still uses it. Haven’t flown them since the 90s.

f86sabre > Spanfeller is a twat
03/16/2019 at 13:14

I liked it. Nice light, good food and plenty of plugs in the waiting areas.

Spanfeller is a twat > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:17

Free wifi too...

thought I honestly don’t understand why it needs two terminals

Future Heap Owner > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:19

They were doing it in the late aughts/ early teens; I remember listening to it on a flight back home during college. But requiring more hardware is a good reason why nobody else does it; I’ll bet at least 90% of passengers have no idea, and wouldn’t care if they did.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:20

United still does , at least on some flights. I listened in most of the way back from Kauai to Denver 2 years ago on a 757 flight .

Future Heap Owner > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:22

Another plane Q: so the 737-MAX issue is caused in part by changing the engine position in order to accommodate the new, larger, more efficient engines. My question is, are the size and efficiency related? Do the engines need to be bigger to be more efficient, or did they just happen to be bigger for other reasons? If it was necessary, why are bigger jet engines more efficient?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:23

Which car brand would you wipe off the face of the earth and why?

Chariotoflove > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 13:27

If you can have any seat in the coach cabin, which do you choose?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat
03/16/2019 at 13:31

You might like the Albuquerque airport. Small, but light, airy, open and with very distinctive architecture (pueblo style, with some territorial touches). Also has nice viewing lounge.

Spanfeller is a twat > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
03/16/2019 at 13:33

My favorite airport yet is the Jackson airport in Wyoming... the one I hate the most is El Prat in Barcelona.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 14:24

What’s the best livery on a dash 8 at the C gates?

f86sabre > Future Heap Owner
03/16/2019 at 14:29

These are my opinions and aren’t from any inside knowledge of Max design, but here you go. All the MAX have higher takeoff weights than their NG siblings. Most of that allows for more cargo and fuel for longer range. That means you need more power for single engine out situations. Now, we also want a more fuel efficient engine. How do we take care of both requirements? Bigger fan. Longer blades can be more efficient and allow for more bypass. They act basically the same way that longer span wings do. Modern jet engine fans are really just super fancy propellers. They also make the majority of the thrust and the core is there to keep the fan spinning.

You want to keep commonality between all MAX variants so they get the same nacelle (inlet, fan cowls and maybe TRs) even if they don’t need all that power.

Also, the CFM Leap engine is used on both the MAX and A321Neo, so it’s variants are sized to accommodate both jet families. That may add to the diameter a bit.

Future Heap Owner > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 14:32

I didn’t know that bypass for thrust was a design goal of mordern turbojet engines. I like how you described them . Thanks for the explanation!

f86sabre > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
03/16/2019 at 14:34

Almost all of them have redeeming history that I would hate to touch but if you want to talk about going forward and I can snap my fingers like Thanos I’d give the axe to:

Cadillac

Acura

Infinity

Lexus

I’d roll their high end cars back into the parent companies. That’s my hot take.

I also don’t have much use for modern day Nissan and Mitsubishi has been a sad shadow of itself for a long time.

f86sabre > Chariotoflove
03/16/2019 at 14:37

I typically like the last row of first on domestic flights, the middle of the first cabin at a window for long hauls between continents and if I’m on a 747 I want the first row in first. In coach I like over the wings.

f86sabre > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
03/16/2019 at 15:25

I’m in the Sky Club and can only see A, B and S. I always liked the Ducks paint job though. The UW is a good one too.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 15:36

A, B and S gates, I never go there. Unless you can talk them into a FCA-SEATAC direct.

Chariotoflove > f86sabre
03/16/2019 at 15:43

I usually prefer bulkhead in coach on domestic flights for the leg room. My wife doesn’t like that so much because she loses the storage in front of her.

On overseas flights, I’d like the front in coach, but they don’t let me have it because it’s near the emergency exit. I get put behind the bulkhead, which is kind of claustrophobic.

ttyymmnn > Future Heap Owner
03/16/2019 at 15:55

If Boeing could put larger diameter fans on the MAX they would, but the plane was designed 50 years ago to be close to the ground. The engines on the MAX are as big as they can be, while the engines on the neo are larger. Boeing claims that larger fans make for more air resistance, and that their engines are the perfect size. The MAX 10, which will compete directly with the A321neo, will have telescoping main gear to help. But it’s still a stretch, both literally and figuratively.

f86sabre > Future Heap Owner
03/17/2019 at 14:54

Give this twitter thread a read. Sums things up really well.

https://twitter.com/trevorsumner/status/1106934362531155974?s=21