Cheers 🙂 Next question is does anyone have the foggiest idea what XL’s onboard service, legroom etc are like?

Why care about the onboard service, legroom etc.? I do not know the XL’s standards, but generally it can be said, that the more you pay for your ticket the more you get, simple as that! If you buy your two way ticket to TFS (to name any destination) from some airline for 2 pounds, what do you expect? Do you expect a reclining sofa with 6 feet legroom and a three course meal + snacks both ways? If so, you are in for a big disappointment :rolleyes:

But, no matter what airline you fly with, you will always get the best service possible from the darlings in the back! They are sometimes paid as little as 700 pounds a month total (I can name the airline, but will not), and when you board the airplane in TFS they might have been on duty for 10 hours(four hours to go), preceeded by minimum rest (travel too and from the airport does not count) of 11 hours preceeded by a duty time of 14 hours etc. etc. Do that for a week, and your brain will be fried 😡 And the pick up times are not at all that cultivated either! Try starting your shift at 5 o’clock in the morning, after a grueling week! So, if the service is crap, as them about how long they have been on duty for. But they always have a cup of coffee and a smile.

Pay peanuts, get treated like monkey. I rest my case.

Now, where is my coat?

Hello,
I know OH-LBS is operating at NCL and a Blue Line MD-83 every Monday, but there is meant to be another XLA there as well…says 737 on the timetable but I don’t think it is there yet. Does anyone know what is operating for them and where the 737 is?

Nick

The 734 is TF-ELY, currently operating out of BRS. Should be in NCL around the 20th.

It is the the trash bin, of course! 😉 😀

I’ll get my coat!

Not a broken back, but a crushed one! I think you will be about an inch shorter after an ejection. And at least in the US you can only eject three times before being taken off flying. As always, I’m happy to stand corrected 😀

The minimoa BGA338/G-ALLZ was owned by Philip Wills.It went to Iceland as TF-SOM, but was destroyed when the hanger it was in collapsed on it.

That is a strange registration. According to all material I’ve got on Icelandic registrations, nothing has ever been registered as TF-SOM. It does not exist as far as paperwork with the CAA is concerned. However, I’m not going to doubt this registration for the time being, as there were a couple of sailplanes operated here for a few years in the 50’s that had registration codes on them that did not exist with the CAA 😮 I will make a few inquires and report back to you 😀

Roald Dahl was a Hurricane pilot, he wrote a book about it (read it a looong time ago, it was meant for kids)

His book was called First Solo, and it was not a kids book! Just a recount of his life as a fighter pilot in the Med. Training in Rhodeshia, that Galdiator prang in Palestine, months in hospital, flying in the Greece campaign on Hurricanes, and telling how the injuries sustained in the Glad finally caught up with him and being invalided home.

Ah I found it now! I was just blind the first time I looked at your site 😀