Interesting points.

Just a few corrections. Some airports do take fuel from bowsers. Some airlines do have defuel bowsers, especially if it is a maintenance base. And some smaller operators do re-use the fuel, which is tested for contamination prior to use. (Light aircraft) Most airlines I’ve worked for, the weather is relevant to a flight dispatcher and it is part of his/her daily tasks to monitor it.

My point is that one has so many variables, that to comment one really needs to study the facts for that particular airline/airport.

Are dispatchers skilled people these days? They used to be one step up from a baggage thrower. Surely, absolutely surely…some hairyarsed ground crew cannot be telling the pilot how much fuel he needs?

Happy bidet.

By the time he reads this, he’ll need one.
Jam session eh. The Blueberry Bass kid!

I’ve rebuilt 3 PC’s in the last week, all with dodgy CPU fans, granted they’re c*** Dell’s, but it’s the same thing really.

Motherboard out, new CPU fan (Exactly the same as the old Dell one, only half the cost, from Aria) in, done. 20 minutes work on each PC. No re-installations of any sort, no strange taps, having to re-arrange where fans are in the case, simple!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone make a 20 minute replacement job take over 48 hours.

Aye, you can do it with yer eyes shut. All I know is that most of the kit needed removing to get mobo out, and I couldn’t be arsed with the risk of it all.
CPU…in my last picture, I thought the CPU was the large fan with a vaned heatsync under it? The Graphics has a sync but no fan. The case has a fan of course, with another one in the power supply.
Anyway, it is now tie-wrapped in, 6mm above the sync. as described earlier.

It’s simple really. I aint doin it. Mobo out and rebuild is several days without PC. It’s needed.
Putting all the SW on takes the best part of a fortnight, as I will only be able to do it evenings. And that’s before I reset all my preferences for said SW.
And with a new mobo, there is “Bound” to be something I’ve got which isn’t compatible or somesuch.

Aye, you must realise that the drobe department will have 1 or two suitable items for a given “Role”. They really wouldn’t pay any attention to it, unless it was a contributing part of the Story.

How many movies have a different A/c landing than the one that took off? LoL.
Why, only last night I saw a recent movie using the famous Undercarriage footage (Looking aft at the Runway as she lifts off). It was taken on one of the 747’s first flights in the late 60’s! They landed in a 767 by the way LoL.

So, the Forum has raised a Change Note and a design solution has been considered. The pukka solution of “Mobo out” is not considered viable.

If you look at picture 4 above, and then imagine the new fan being 90 degrees to how it is fitted, the fan base will sit atop the sides of the Sync. where it says ASUS. The holes in the fan base will be secured to the vertical Sync walls with small heatproof tie wraps.
This will give a 1/4inch ish gap under the fan to let all that air out. Oh, I think I said it was sucking-off, but the fan is blowing-on to the Sync. Presently the air must be escaping through the gaps of the Dble sided tape, or back on itself, which is bad.

Well, I watched it as a viewer, and it didn’t stand out to me.