How does type rating work for this one off kind of plane? How do you get hours in the one plane, and is there a simulator?
Also what do you do when the plane you're rated for is destroyed?
World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes
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It's very useful to read, or at least to open and scroll, the articles before commenting.
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#43It's not clear whether it truly was destroyed by Russian airstrikes. The plane was based on the Gostomel airport, which got captured by the Russian airborn forces in the early days of the invasion. The news of destruction begun after the Ukrainian forces tried to retake the airport.
This is a minor issue. Title may be misleading, I don't know how things went, but Russia started the war that caused plane destruction.
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#44How will this affect global supply chains? I heard it was essential to transport certain extra large goods to exotic locations.
Badly. Even more so because it's little brothers ( still enormous, second biggest cargo aircraft), the An-124s, and everything else by Antonov, will have to be grounded due to lack of spares.
Even more so because shipping via sea has faced so many challenges due to covid (and probably still is). For example, companies in Australia have used these gigantic planes to deliver items that would have been shipped by sea in normal times, but that was just taking far too long now. The costs are exorbitant in comparison, but if your business needs some gigantic item now there was no alternative.
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#45Here's a photo of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/t6d2eh/closer_pho...
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You despise the people defending their country from invasion, but not those who are actually invading?
Go take a long look in the mirror, and try to figure out where your humanity has gone.
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#48How does type rating work for this one off kind of plane? How do you get hours in the one plane, and is there a simulator? Also what do you do when the plane you're rated for is destroyed?
> Also what do you do when the plane you're rated for is destroyed?
Presumably there are numerous other reasons you already wouldn't want it to be the only plane you were flying, so you just fly the others a bit more?
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provides bad claim with no sources that apologizes for a dictator
is refuted by multiple people using multiple sources
guys its 1984 in here
lmfao police your own stupidity inside your own head and we wouldnt have to do it in public
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#50How does type rating work for this one off kind of plane? How do you get hours in the one plane, and is there a simulator? Also what do you do when the plane you're rated for is destroyed?
Mriya’s crew were definitely rated for other planes (almost certainly the An-124 it was derived from for instance): Mriya was expensive to fly, and you’d only charter if if you really needed its lifting capabilities (whether weight or volume). It would not be flying year-round in the first place, so you’d want multiple crew rated for it (so one would be available when an order came in) but you wouldn’t want those crews sitting around with their thumbs up their asses all year.
For people looking at it from afar it was an amazing sight, but I expect for the crew it was mostly monday. If you listen at their ATC transmissions they sound jaded and bored even for slavic pilots (whereas ATC and other pilots nearby sound like kids at candy store).
I don’t know if the price sheets were ever public, but it would not surprise me to learn that you could charter two 124s for the price of the 225, with more flexibility to boot (the 225 had no rear cargo door, no passenger compartment, and obviously more concerning airfield size requirements — mostly owing to its size and takeoff distance, the landing gear is so overbuilt it’s supposedly got a pretty light ground pressure compared to other large aircrafts).