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How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

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Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

scrlk wrote: post #5

The OP of that thread later went on to do a contract with Kam Air of Afghanistan, which is another good read: https://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment/662364-kam-air-expat... A highlight: > YA-KME for example, has a strange little thing where you’ll get an ECAM Red ENG 3 FIRE after you detent into CLB. For f*ck sake, don’t discharge the bottles, there’s no fire. It’ll shut up after 3 or 4 seconds. Again, reason unknow…

I was highly impressed by KAM. Almost normal. They did a nice job depending on Dubai as a base:

Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

mattas wrote: post #17

Tried to figure out their routes: https://yemenia.com/flights . "No Flights Available"

Wikipedia page for airlines is generally an accessible and reliable source of active airline routes (and destinations for airport pages)

Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

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Post by scrlk »

addaon wrote: post #29
sterlind wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you don't have a RAT you need the APU for emergency power if your engines fail in flight.

APUs have a common mode failure with main engines: lack of fuel. Are there designs out there which require emergency power after engine failure and don’t have a RAT?

There was a Mentour Pilot video on the Jeju Air crash that touched upon this. With a dual engine failure on a 737, you lose both generators and fall back to the emergency batteries (no RAT). The aircraft remains flyable, but it's extremely challenging - you need an operational APU to make things a lot more manageable: https://youtu.be/9GbmGUk8Y0M?t=2001
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