My Dad, whom does not read the thread but I mentioned some stuff about Embraer's tough day with the emergency and all, said to post this. The "Sadde Six" approach comes in right over our house.

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neat video. back when i was flying commercially, check out "River Visual to runway 19 in DCA" on youtube. probably the approach that will most likely get you shot down if you screw it up.

the sadde 6 serves the guys coming from the north and west. i run two streams in my sectors...the RIIVR 2 and the SEAVU2. both streams meet just east of ontario. on a good night, we land 92 airliners an hour into LAX. (plus, i work all of the other guys coming into the other airports, as well. burbank, orange county, lgb, smo, van nuys, etc.) our traffic count is down, but on a good day we run almost 8000 IFR airplanes through LA Center.

at one point tonight, i was working 32 airplanes at once. hectic. ha!

By the way, my Dad did some cross countries to Fox field.

always windy there. by the way, if you head up over to Rosamond anytime soon, you probably take 138 over, right? if you head south to Ave G (the road Fox is on), you'll run into the musical road. one of three built. Honda Engineers built it (it was featured in a commercial). it plays an off-key rendition of the william tell overture.

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It's always windy until I suggest to go out there to do some crosswind landings, check the weather out there and it's calm. Never fails. :D

ha! it always seems to be that way. Rosamond has a skypark that's about 3 miles from Willow Springs. Each house has a giant hangar with a taxiway leading right up to the house. if a buy here....hmmmm......

You awake RKD? Some rather ugly storms moving your way.

dave, is the pomona swap meet worth it?

I think the word from a few that have gone in recent years is: no. :)

good to know. one of my coworkers wanted me to play hooky and go with him

By the way, what was this guy flying?

767

What was the problem then? You said you could tell what it was when you heard the call?

well, we have to ask what the nature of the emergency is. he said he was having a roll control issue. most of my coworkers wouldnt know what that means. as you know, the airplane just doesnt use ailerons to bank...it uses the speed brakes as well. the rate is a function of speed. he was having some form of hydraulic issue. when i checked if he wanted to minimize speed adjustments, he said affirmative. i called approach and let them know that he would probably be requesting a higher approach speed (ala, no flap landing). ...to which he, ended up requesting a no-flap landing/higher approach speed. landed safely without further incident.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining.

i went through a 727 flight engineer rating course about 10 years ago, but ive forgotten most of that stuff. the airplanes i was a SME on share more with an airbus then the boeings....but most general AC systems transfer airplane to airplane

alright, im gonna head to bed. gotta be up at 0500 for work. after work, im driving about 2 hours to go check out a Lotus..... nighte dudes (and dudette)

Night.