Surely Cairns is not a suitable port of call for the LAX flight. Is that so you don’t compete head-on with QF and UA? And AKL-LAS? I don’t know…. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the info WD. That sheds a lot of light on the situation. I retract my previous statement.

Great to see you back GD1! Just looking, your last post was June! How you doing?

Thank you sir, I’ve been good. Just got back from Sydney on January 1st where I got to experience scorching heat with a record high of 44 C for that day in Sydney. Thank God I came home to rain. June, eh? I guess it has been a while. I go through my hibernations from time to time.

Thanks for the info Skymonster. No-one can shed some light on the 743 info?

This is insane. Great job of chasing away Sandy guys. What did he ever do on this thread that was so godawful? For crying out loud, he was trying to be good the last few months since he got banned. Grey, I have a lot of respect for you, you do a great job as a moderator, but I know what’s up. I’m an educator, I deal with 210 teenagers on a daily basis. Some of them, happen to get on my nerves so much so, that once they get on my bad side, there’s no turning back. Right or wrong, this is a fact. Unfortunately, Sandy got on your bad side, and no matter what, you’re going to come down on him whether it is justified, or not. It’s just so blatant Grey, it’s not even funny. Well, you all succeeded, he’s gone. Have fun. No more Airbus bashing. Utterly pathetic.

It’s a shame that many don’t see the posts that are deleted to see what can only be described as ‘Utterly Pathetic’, which is where complaints of frequent posters of these threads comes from, are we not supposed to act? Delete, Yes? Warn, Yes? What next?

At the end of the day, no-one forced him to go – he throwed the toys out, not us! :confused:

Matthew Murray,
Moderator

Pratt have a dismal engine for the 777, barely able to do the job on a 772ER…. let alone an LR.

lol

Just kidding 😉

:dev2:

Congrats to them, and skycruiser.

You sure that’s at LAX? I saw a shot similar to that taken when the A-380 first flew! This looks like it, very much like it.

As for the pic being taken, the observation aircraft and subsequent photographer aren’t that close, you’ll find they are using a tele-photo lens. I don’t know any country in the world that allows airtraffic that close under normal conditions, prototype flying is the only exception and that’s because during the critial phases of flight everything is recorded in the most minute detail!

It’s definitely LAX, Ja, and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was, “he better get the hell out of the way!”

On a related note, I was flying home from LAX the other day, routing to ONT, and on that route you bascially do a 180 after take off and fly over palos verdes, long beach, etc., and subsequently fly over the take off path of LGB. I was sitting on the starboard side, when a Jetblue A320 flew right underneath us. We were only at 3-4000 feet and the jetblue bird looked like it was dangerously close to us. Perhaps it was on downwind, or something.