MOD 3 LOB 4: Interpret performance speeds and performance specifications for various aircrafts. Link: http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft%20performance/acft_list.htm When I started searching for a website I wanted to find one that had a large database of base with a good amount of specifications on each of them. The first site I had found was risingup.com but then I saw that somebody had already used that. So I continued my search and that brought me to pilotfriend. Their database of companies
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today, the airline industry is so saturated that there is hardly space for a newcomer to enter the market. The biggest for this is the cost of entry. The airline industry is one of the most expensive industries, due to the cost of buying and leasing aircrafts, safety and security measures, customer service and manpower. Other barriers to entry which will recess new
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Unit 5 Individual Project Business on a Wing and a Plan Introduction For nearly the last 100 years, airplanes have captured the imagination of the world. As the technology has progressed and the airline industry grew, competition has grown as well. Two of the top companies in today’s airline market are Boeing and Airbus. While these two companies are in the same business, they have different development strategies. Comparing the strategies of the two companies will show how each came
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF AIRCRAFT ENGINE AIR INLET Air intake (inlet) — For subsonic aircraft, the inlet is a duct which is required to ensure smooth airflow into the engine despite air approaching the inlet from directions other than straight ahead. This occurs on the ground from cross winds and in flight with aircraft pitch and yaw motions. The duct length is minimized to reduce drag and weight.[1] Air enters the compressor at about half the speed of sound so at flight speeds lower than this the
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instructing is most likely the most underrated and underpaid job in the aviation industry. Without this job, all pilots would have to come from the military, which would cause a severe shortage of pilots. Pipeline patrol requires pilots to fly aircraft at very low altitudes over varying terrain to observe pipelines and check for any problems or vandalism within the lines. Another type of this job is for pilots to patrol the U.S. borders in search for illegal activities. Without either of these
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died in flight, while 46,000 have died in car accidents, so you can quickly get a picture in your head that airplanes are much safer than the car. The weird thing about the newspapers and the public media today is that you only hear if there is an aircraft crashing, never to be heard in car crashes or similar. It is perhaps also why many people develop a look inside that flying is much more dangerous than driving a
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particularly successful because it had tight reign on costs and overheads. It could make savings where other airlines could not. For example: i) Easyjet maximised the utilization of assets - with faster turnaround on flights ii) it only flew its aircraft point to point, with no connecting flights - thus it did not incur the costly ticketing procedures associated with flight connections iii) it had no ticketing (paperless office) - customers used e-mail reference numbers to board flights. All these
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Economic advantages of proactive over reactive aircraft maintenance Name Course Institution Instructor Date Economic advantages of proactive over reactive aircraft maintenance The term proactive, in general terms, refers to exhibiting anticipatory or self-initiatory characteristics or behavior. Proactive maintenance in mechanical terms refers to taking steps in order to solve a problem of equipment malfunction before it becomes a bigger issue
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Case Study: JetBlue: Bringing Humanity Back to Air Travel? Chapter 2: pages 84-87 1. Valentine’s Day in 2007 was a “customer disaster” day for JetBlue airlines. A snow storm hit the East Coast of the US and JetBlue decided not to cancel their flights ahead of time like the other airlines and stayed on schedule. The storm didn’t end up calming down and ten JetBlue planes full of passengers were unable to take off, leaving passengers and the flight crew stranded. Some planes sat for more
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What are the challenges associated with managing in a business with high fixed costs like airlines? One of the challenges associated with managing in a business with high fixed costs, like airlines, is how to generate enough revenue during the peak season to reduce the effect of losses during off-peak seasons. Airlines must generate enough seasonal revenue during heavy travel periods, predominantly the summer months, to offset losses experienced during other seasons when profits from travel are
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