Steve Giordano
@SteveNomadic
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Pilot/Entrepreneur | Partner @nomadic_OMD | #CockpitCasual on YouTube | Husband/SwimDad | PIC rated on B-737/757/767/777/787/A320/330/340/DC9/DHC8/CE550/IA-JET
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I posted this last year, (June ‘22) but just stumbled on it again - this was over Spain westbound. I was flying a 767-300ER from Nimes France to Lima Peru - this French Air Force E-3 sentry was below us. Great look at the AWACS radar spinning!
#Avgeek
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Smearing the pilot who lost his life before anything factual is known is irresponsible and reprehensible BS. Over 1.5 years on-type is NOT low experience by any measure FYI.
Danilo Santos Romano, the Captain of Voepass flight 2283 had only been Captain for 1 year and First Officer for 8 months on the ATR-72, Brazils media has reported.
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Check THIS out. This was a first for me - a French Air Force E-3F AWACS spotted below us. We were at FL330 over Spain, and it was down around 290 I believe. We slowly overtook her. The spinning radome clearly visible!
#AvGeek
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On the leg between Guam (PGUM) and Kalaeloa (PHJR) we experienced a fault with one of our 2 AC packs. This left us a single point of failure away from de-pressurization, which would require a descent to an altitude where we could breathe without supplemental O2. Keep in mind, a
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As you all know by now, we bounce around from type to type a lot, but after a few straight days of flying patterns, approaches, maneuvers in a 1986 IA-1124A, jumping right into an Airbus is wild. Bob and I each looked at each other on the climb in the A320 and said: “Jesus, this
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Horrible. This is a flat spin - and I won’t speculate as to how they got into it, but at this low altitude in a plane this size, there’s no getting out of it. RIP to all involved.
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Here’s a current (and past) pic of my now 101 YO grandfather / WWII Aviator / Centurion+, grandfather Marty Benoff who celebrated his 101st Birthday yesterday. Also pictured, my mom!
Can we get him 1000 likes? I mean the man is 101 and a vet from the Greatest Generation! RT!
Happy 101st Birthday to my grandfather Marty Benoff! WWII Army Air Corps aviator and all around awesome guy… 101! Crazy right???🍀
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Proud day! 8/16/23 My son Tyler has completed his first solo!!
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@SteveKingIA
Perhaps you should assimilate with the rest of us and come to the realization that America's culture IS multiculturalism
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Aloha, & Welcome to Honolulu! 🌺
From our 767-300ER jumpseat.
…. And please disregard the windshear warning as we were slowing through 40 knots on the landing roll 😂🤷🏻♂️
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Just boarded AA26 in Haneda bound for LAX. FO came back and gave me a nice Concierge Key welcome. Got invited to see the cockpit of the 787! I of course played along. Once up there, I recruited the captain who will be retiring in the next year 😂 We’ll see if he calls 🤷🏻♂️
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Danilo Santos Romano did some ferry flights for one of our competitors according to his LinkedIn. Totally the type of guy I’d have called up to do an ATR deal on a whim.
I’m gonna pour one out for Danilo & the crew today.
Just so unbelievably sad. May they rest in peace.
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Visual approach into Xiamen with an empty B757-200 (Ex American Airlines) - Part 91 Ferry Flight into HAECO for Cargo Conversion. Uniforms make clearing customs easier in China (hence no hoodie and ball cap 🧢)
#AvGeek
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@LaurenWitzkeDE
This silver haired “maverick” would gladly work with that professional pilot any day of the week.
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Landing Abu Dhabi after a 14.5 hour flight from Miami. 767-300ER (BCF)
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“Airplane contrails aren’t chemicals being nefariously sprayed on the population by the government”
My follower count: -36 in 3 minutes
😂 gotta love this place 🙄
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As ferry pilots, we often fly 20-25 hours across long distances and frequently need to service the engine oil enroute. Especially so with the more tired engines. Turbine oil comes in cans, and since we have to go through security to get to a job, we don’t have tools.
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The 2 minute tour this time. Hey - it’s a big plane! 🤷🏻♂️
B777-300ER
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The tour! Sorry I didn’t get to it beforehand - we took off basically as soon as I got there!
#Avgeek
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When we’re out over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there’s no enroute ATC radar coverage, so we make position reports over HF every time we cross a waypoint (roughly every hour). We communicate with San Francisco ARINC which relays our position to KZAK (Oakland oceanic).
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500K parts on a 737 Max. At least as many fasteners.
#Boeing
had better figure out how the fuck these all came loose - and soon. And then explain why the ones holding on the rudder on are sure to be tight.
#Boeing737Max9
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Couple of years ago, we got a call to move a C-9A (DC-9-30) out of Andrews AFB that had been purchased out of government surplus. This one had quite a history - it famously flew
@laurawbush
around Africa in 2007 as part of the Education initiative. It flew around generals and
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Departing LAX on a 15 hour flight to the Philippines yesterday in a B767-300ER. Video by
@david_dek
in the 2nd jumpseat.
#avgeek
#OMD213
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Landing an A320 on a pretty small uncontrolled runway. São Carlos Brazil has a tiny little airstrip with a LATAM maintenance hangar and base! It’s a “special airport” with nonstandard ops procedures DAY/VFR only. This is where most of the LATAM A320s will go (many at
@Nomadic_OMD
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Last night we lost my grandfather, Marty Benoff - a great man from the greatest generation. He was born on March 17th 1921 and lived 102.5 years on this earth to the fullest.
Born to a Russian/Lithuanian-Jewish family in Philadelphia, he was a first generation American. The
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Well conveniently Jake, last night while at 43,000 feet in the 787
@OMD_SkyDog
and I were discussing his
#flatearth
followers on TikTok when I decided to unleash 10,000 cubic yards of arsenic through our
#chemtrail
delivery system out of frustration and got it on tape!
#evidence
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Refueling the A320 is super easy. The fuel service panel is on the starboard side of the fuselage below the wing root. The valves and single-point connection are located under the leading edge of the right wing outboard of the engine.
The truck connects to the single point, and
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757-300 is almost comically long… never flown one….
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Quite Possibly the coolest
#avgeek
pic I’ve ever snapped. Short final to RW24 in Honiara (AGGH/HIR) in the Solomon Islands. Definitely going to make the 2023 OMD Calendar.
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@OMD_SkyDog
practicing a V1 cut in our Westwind II today. There’s only one 1124 sim in the world - so we do our training in the actual plane!
A V1 cut is an engine failure after V1 (takeoff decision speed). It means we’re past the point where a rejected takeoff is safe or
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Milestone trip for me, my son, AND
@Nomadic_OMD
coming.
My son Tyler who got his PPL in Feb, graduated high school last week, and starts his aviation degree this fall is along as an intern on an A320 NEO delivery to SCL from the factory in TLS!
My FO? Tyler’s former CFI Pat
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CLICK TO ENLARGE!!!
Trust me, it’s worth it. You can do some neat stuff with panoramic shot on a jet with no seats!!!
#avgeek
#wingletsforjo
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I have the honor of being my son’s first passenger on this C-172 today! It’s been probably 25 years since I’ve been in one of these things, so I hope he knows what he’s doing 😂. I’ll be sitting on my hands!
#Avgeek
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All done now - time to go home and relax on the beach for the rest of August!
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Waking up to the news about
#SJY182
with a heavy heart. Jet Test has worked closely with
#SriwijayaAir
since they launched. Some of the nicest folks I’ve met; many people I still call friends. We delivered every single -500W that came from Continental/UAL including PK-CLC.
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11 total passengers tonight on SQ24 - the longest commercial flight in the world SIN-JFK. We’re nearly 20% of the paying passengers and we’re outnumbered by crew 13:11.
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All done! Current on 737 & A320 again for a while! No more training till 2025 and I think 777/787 recurrent is next up !
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Up close and personal with an old DC-8 on the ramp @ JRF!
#AvGeek
I’ve got plenty of DC-9 time - it shouldn’t be THAT hard right?
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Update, we don’t have much time left with our boy. Completely devastated. Not sure what else to say rn, but thank you to everyone who is asking about him. 💔
🙏 Please keep Vegas, our 10 year old good-boy in your thoughts and send positive vibes. He’s dealing with some scary health issues, and I’m racing home as fast as I can. I also won’t be doing much tweeting over the coming days as I’m in full blown panic mode.
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🚨MUST SEE PHOTO/VIDEO 🧵 for the
#avgeek
!!
Very rare/unique thing happened this morning.
We departed HNL @ 0130L with 2 B737-800s which we ferried out of Australia yesterday bound for KOPF
OMD554 🛫 first. OMD553 🛫 10 min later.
An hour in, 554 deviated for weather ⬇️
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Some SERIOUS
#AvGeek
‘ery here - not one, but TWO Lockheed Jetstars, and the the craziest part? They appear airworthy! 😳😳😳😳😳
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In mid-May, I was operating a
@Nomadic_OMD
flight on this B757-200 from Roswell NM to Xiamen China - where it was going for cargo conversion. We flew via the mid-Pac route with stops in JRF and GUM.
On descent into GUM in the middle of the night, we got a RT ENG FIRE
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Just me hanging out at 40,000’ over the S Atlantic in an empty
#Dreamliner
by myself in the
#cockpit
while Dan was sleeping in the crew bunk and
@OMD_SkyDog
was taking a leak in the back.
#AvGeek
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Here it is! Quick-edited, heavy storms arrival into BOG after 11 hour flight from Honolulu with a 767-300ER.
#AvGeek
#B767
@Nomadic_OMD
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Last summer Bob & I flew a beater A320 from Tianjin China to Brunswick Maine as a crew of 2, straight through, no rest - and that was 48 hours after flying a 777 from Phoenix to Abu Dhabi!
2 months earlier, we flew a 757 from Roswell to Xiamen as a crew of 2 with no rest -
Learjet 36A Crew Departs Wichita For Record Round-The-World Flight | Aviation Week Network
@flightradar24
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You’re looking at the two newest 787 pilots on planet earth!
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OMD save the queen… ✈️
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LATAM B767-300ER 1Min tour - preflight from Santiago Chile to Auckland New Zealand enroute to WSAP (Paya Labar) in Singapore for BCF Cargo Conversion!
#avgeek
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Here’s the RNAV (LNAV) approach to mins with a tailwind into RWY18 @ KBYH today after a long-haul from Tokyo with a quick customs stop in KGTF. Aircraft is a B767-300 🛬
#avgeek
#cockpitview
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Our ride: a B767-300 still sporting JAL paint, N472TN. Today we’ll fly nonstop from Haneda (RJTT) to Great Falls, Montana (KGTF) to clear customs (yes an Allegiant city 😂) then to Blytheville AR (KBYH). We will operate as OMD526 -
@Nomadic_OMD
#AvGeek
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Maintaining a bunch of type ratings in the ferry business means doing recurrent training and proficiency checks in the simulator just like regular airline pilots do. This weekend we are getting both the 737 and the A320 done at the same time.
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1) Overflying Cairo @ FL400
2) HUD-shot
3) climbing through FL300 at 2000 FPM at Mach .85 😂😂😂
Ok I love it. Also, it’s like part Boeing and part Airbus if I’m honest - like the best parts of both. Really a ferry pilot’s dream..
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What a ride! Gonna be hard to get in a 757 next week 🙃
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Back by popular demand: the 1 minute (and 9 second) tour - Ex JAL (JA8898) now N472TN B767-300 that were about to fly across the pacific to the USA
@SkydogZen
#AvGeek
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Airplane I dislike: 737
Airplane I think is overrated: 757
Airplane I like: 767
Airplane I love: 777
Airplane I feel most myself on: MD80
Airplane I still need to fly: A220
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Wait - I knew RFK JR was a nutjob, but a chemtrail lunatic??? That’s only one rung behind flat-earthers on the ladder of stupidity! 🥴
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A320 ZBTJ-PGUM-PHJR-KPHX-KBXM quick tour. We will depart in about 90 mins as OMD234
#AvGeek
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Remember when Condor retired D-ABUM, the retro-liveried 767? Well, tomorrow she returns to the skies!
@mikeholliday1
& I will fly her to Guangzhou China to become a freighter…
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Reminds of a story:
🧵 about 10 years ago, I ferried a VIP MD-87 for a one-off client who had just purchased the jet for basically peanuts. Like - an “I could go buy it tomorrow” kind-of $.
The guy was a character - a very stereotypical Russian pilot you’d imagine climbing
🧵
#OTD
in 1993: a Tajikistan Airlines Yak-40 [EY-879950] crashes in Khorog (Tajikistan): 82 of 86 aboard die. On take-off, jet overran runway, hit obstacles and fell on a nearby river. Plane was grossly overloaded: type was certified to carry a maximum of 32 passengers.
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I remember 9/11/01 like it was yesterday. I had an airline job lined up, and was flying 135 in a Caravan, but was still flight instructing out of KPNE. I had a commercial student that day - actually it was
@stojanmarion
.
I remember walking out to the plane and observing the
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About 21,000 gallons of jet fuel tonight to get this “magic red carpet” across the Pacific. A random-route across to Guam before joining airways into Guangzhou China.
#OMD361
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