SFist: New "Green" Flight to SFO Will Have Plane Engines Idling Above

xallure

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:11:53 -0800

Or, save even more and just skip the flying and the demonstration. It's all for publicity's sake anyway.

jimH

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:29:32 -0800

Tailored arrivals might be simpler to implement, so there's been hundreds of those. The "third flight" refers to a "gate to gate" implementation, as opposed to just an arrival. G to G suggests the takeoff and flight, the whole magilla.

Ciaran

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:39:53 -0800

That story make no sense at all It is the third flight to be accomplished under the initiative. In September an Air New Zealand 777-200ER flew from Auckland to San Francisco using the same technology and procedures to optimize the flight from gate to gate. Hundreds of overseas flights have landed at San Francisco's airport utilizing the tailored arrivals procedures and technology. So is it the first, the third or the 300th?

jimH

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:41:43 -0800

Believe it's been against the rules to cruise on into SFO any old which way you want. The whole point of today's news is that technology and common sense and "thinking outside the box" can allow us to save fuel. Allowing 2-engined (as opposed to four-engined)planes to fly tranpacific routes (ETOPS)is a sort of new idea that similarly saves fuel. Sixty years ago, with older technology, that concept was unthinkable.

sfbs

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:24:32 -0800

The thought of a plane "idling" in the air is a little troubling. If it is no big deal, why don't more planes do it? Just don't crash and it is fine by me.