On a commercial flight landing in Las Vegas, Nevada I think, I was by a window to see a van cross uncomfortably close in front of our taxiing jet. The pilot braked hard enough we could all feel the nose strut compress and rebound. He then made an announcement advising us all of what happened, and implied there were going to be some answers required of the driver.
This is why I’m always cautious when approaching vehicles during taxi, man. I know they’re required to give way but there’s a human in there. You never know…
FAA CFR Section 23.1357 In the event of a complete loss of the primary electrical power generating system, the battery must be capable of providing at least 30 minutes of electrical power to those loads that are essential to continued safe flight and landing. The 30 minute time period includes the time needed for the pilots to recognize the loss of generated power and take appropriate load shedding action. This is also cooberated within the POH of every aircraft I've ever flown, why they don't know this is beyond me. They can keep the radios on.
Honestly not really. Radomes are made of lighter weight materials so they don't interfere with the radars that are mounted beneath them. This is a Citation V and I believe it's mostly fiberglass with some aluminum shell nearer to the attach points. Ultimately radomes on jets are not particularly resilient to impacts.
When I was trained for driving a vehicle on the taxiways, I was told that no one is going to drive into a 747. They are big and make a lot of noise. It’s these little and quiet planes that sneak up on you. I found that to be very true. What was the weather like? And the visibility?
Ultra has only one battery and high min-voltage requirement to start. If you noticed, pilot had the engine running to keep battery charged. With a battery below start-limit, even more issue with requiring tow back to the FBO. By conserving power, once damage assessed, probable taxi-back and opening the taxiway sooner.
Never a bad idea to have a backup handheld aviation band radio in the cockpit.
On a commercial flight landing in Las Vegas, Nevada I think, I was by a window to see a van cross uncomfortably close in front of our taxiing jet. The pilot braked hard enough we could all feel the nose strut compress and rebound. He then made an announcement advising us all of what happened, and implied there were going to be some answers required of the driver.
Your pilot was definitely an expert one I guess!!
This is why I’m always cautious when approaching vehicles during taxi, man. I know they’re required to give way but there’s a human in there. You never know…
True! Nobody does this thing intentionally for sure !
FAA CFR
Section 23.1357
In the event of a complete loss of the primary electrical power generating system, the battery must be capable of providing at least 30 minutes of electrical power to those loads that are essential to continued safe flight and landing. The 30 minute time period includes the time needed for the pilots to recognize the loss of generated power and take appropriate load shedding action.
This is also cooberated within the POH of every aircraft I've ever flown, why they don't know this is beyond me. They can keep the radios on.
See and avoid doesn't apply there?
Had to have been a big crash for the nose to be ripped off, that wild.
Definitely It was Wild ! 🥹
Honestly not really. Radomes are made of lighter weight materials so they don't interfere with the radars that are mounted beneath them. This is a Citation V and I believe it's mostly fiberglass with some aluminum shell nearer to the attach points. Ultimately radomes on jets are not particularly resilient to impacts.
When I was trained for driving a vehicle on the taxiways, I was told that no one is going to drive into a 747. They are big and make a lot of noise. It’s these little and quiet planes that sneak up on you. I found that to be very true. What was the weather like? And the visibility?
Weather and visibility wise , it was good ! Though actual information is not available with us right now
How could this happened??😮
Bad luck! I guess!
Pilot worried about batteries? Make it happen!
Ultra has only one battery and high min-voltage requirement to start. If you noticed, pilot had the engine running to keep battery charged. With a battery below start-limit, even more issue with requiring tow back to the FBO. By conserving power, once damage assessed, probable taxi-back and opening the taxiway sooner.
Someone doesn’t have a job.
Tis Christmas party season. Did the truck driver have the smell of bourbon and eggnog on his breath?🎄😆🎄
"His rate of speech seems pretty high" sounds more like the Peruvian marching powder.
😂😂😂
What’s the reason. Was the driver drunk 😅
He was unmindful for sure!!!
The pilot didn’t outright say it on the radio, but “talking at a high rate” may have implied drug use.